Essence of the Bhagavad Gita (el. knyga) | knygos.lt

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The Bhagavad Gita is India’s best-known scripture, magnificent poetry couched as a dialogue between a warrior-prince named Arjuna and his charioteer and spiritual guide, Sri Krishna. It opens with a crisis — Prince Arjuna despairs on the battlefield, unsure if he should fight his kinsmen in a dreadful war. For Easwaran, the Gita’s epic battle represents the war in our own hearts and Arjuna’s anguish reflects the human torn between opposing forces, confused about how to live. Sri Krishna’s timeless guidance, Easwaran argues, can shed light on our dilemmas today.

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Easwaran sees the Gita as “a sure guide to human affairs – one that could throw light on the problems I faced in my own times of crisis.” A foremost translator of the Gita, he taught classes on it for over forty years.

Placing the Gita’s teachings in a modern context, Easwaran explores the nature of reality, the illusion of separateness, the search for identity, the meaning of
yoga, and how to heal the unconscious. The key message of the Gita is how to resolve our conflicts and live in harmony with the deep unity of life, through the practice of meditation and spiritual disciplines. Ultimately, as Easwaran writes, the dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna is “a searching of the soul – the heart’s appeal for wisdom, answered, as it only can be, from within.”