Introduction to Bhagvad Gita - Part 2

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Bhagavad Gita Introduction - Part 2

Bhagavad Gita is embedded deep in the history of India.  It comes in the Bhishma Parva of Mahabharata.  Based on high Philosophy and confirming that Religion is in fact Philosophy in Action.

Philosophy at a very basic level is contemplating upon the fundamental question about ourselves and our relationship with others.  What is the Truth?  Who am I?  What am I doing here on this earth?

The relationship between Philosophy and Truth is that, no matter what the answer to the Philosophical questions one may have the Truth never changes.  So Philosophy does not change the Truth.

What changes is Life.  With time, situations, people, and environment change.  The input and output to our mind change.  Methods and how we interpret things change.  What still remains constant is the Truth.

A simple example may help here:

A baby is born.  We can say that the newborn is like a blank disk at a gross level (we are not going into Karmic Philosophy or the characteristic traits the baby is born with).  The baby reaching toddler level is capable of learning simple things like color and shapes. 

The mother teaches the following to the baby.  Because, that's what the mother learned from her mother!!   

From the mother's perspective, she is passing all basic knowledge to the best of her ability.  The child will now learn Blue is Red and Square ⬜ is a Circle ⚪.  All along the color and shape is what it is!!

The child grows up and goes to school and refers ☆ as a ▲and that's when the teacher comes into play to make the correction.  The teacher teaches in a way and with evidence that the child will realize the truth and learn the right way.

Is it the mother's fault for teaching the wrong thing?  NO, because that's what she learned and understood to be the truth.  How far do we go back to find out where the problem started?  Or, realizing the current problem at present, just work on fixing it?

Similarly, over time the Truth and principles are lost.  Life become hard and that's when great Masters and Saints come to reinterpret and awaken us to reset Life.

Bhagvad Gita is one text like that.  It was told at a time when the society had fallen, many people had adapted evil.  Righteousness had fallen.  Truth and Life was reinterpreted in the context of the current time and the level of degradation in the society.



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