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Srimad Bhagavad GitaMethodology of PresentationT.N.SethumadhavanThe radiance of the Bhagavad Gita is being brought to the readers under this columnthrough the means of easy to handle tools. This arrangement consists of a series ofessays covering the entire Gita in a simple, direct and interactive style employing thetechnique of a Distance Education Programme.The presentation of each Chapter of the Gita will have‣ All transliterated Sanskrit Verses with a lucid translation and explanatorynotes divided into different topics for a clear-cut grasp of the subject‣ A brief account of the issues and concepts involved‣ Strategies to put the ideas discussed into practice and‣ A questionnaire for self-assessment by the readerThe periodicity of posting these essays would be about once in a fortnight barringunforeseen circumstances.In preparing these essays I have steered clear off all the scholastic debates andcontroversies with a view to reach out to the average modern educated youngpeople who require the strength of the Gita to wade through the current daytroubled waters. My purpose is just to help them to understand the essentialmessage of the Gita so that they will blossom into integrated persons full ofequanimity of mind, speech and action. Their needs in the context of our presenthabits of study were fully kept in view in this process.If this effort ignites the minds of the readers and prepares them to take a dip in theGita Ganga on their own, the objective of my mission would be accomplished. MayGanesha, The Lord of Wisdom, shower His grace on all of us in our voyage fromdarkness to light with the help of the Bhagavad Gita, the Essence of Knowledgeitself?AUMasatoma satgamaya tamasoma jyotirgamayamrityorma amritam gamayaom shantih , shantih, shantih>>>()()()
Introducing Srimad Bhagavad Gita:A User’s Manual for Every Day LivingT.N.Sethumadhavan“Live in the world but don’t be of the world. Live in the world but don’t let the worldlive within you. Remember it is all a beautiful dream, because everything is changingand disappearing. If you become detached you will be able to see how people areattached to trivia and how much they are suffering. And you will laugh at yourselfbecause you were also in the same boat before”. - OshoTHE GITA’S WIDE APPEALThe Bhagavad Gita was first translated into English by Charles Wilkins in 1785 andpublished by the British East India Company with an introduction by Lord WarrenHastings, the first British Governor-General of India, in which he prophetically wrote:“The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive when the British Dominion inIndia shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealthand power are lost to remembrance”. He further wrote “I hesitate not to pronounce theGita’s performance of great originality, of sublimity of conception, reasoning anddiction almost unequalled and a single exception amongst all the known religions ofmankind”.The Gita deals with human problems in a human way. That is why it has atremendous appeal. It has inspired the human mind in India for centuries and today itcasts its spell on millions of people across the various parts of the world. It remainsthe most translated work in the Globe. The modern technology like the Internet hasfurther increased its reputation by carrying its message to every nook and corner ofthe world. A mere click on the word ‘Bhagavad Gita’ in the Google search enginethrows about 963,000 results. An incredible reach for any scripture!Among the great and extraordinary people who were inspired and found their outlookchanged by the timeless wisdom of the Gita are thinkers, writers, scientists andphilosophers like Mahatma Gandhi, B.G.Tilak, Sri Aurobindo, Albert Einstein, Dr.Albert Schweitzer, Herman Hesse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aldous Huxley, WaltWhitman, Henry David Thoreau, Annie Besant, Robert Oppenheimer Sir EdwinArnold and Carlyle to name but a few.In India it was left to Adi Sankara who lived in the 8 th century A.D. to reveal thegreatness of the Gita to the world. He retrieved it from the mighty tomes of the epic,the Mahabharata, and wrote a brilliant commentary on it. It is this commentary whichprevails as a classic text even today. Later great acharyas like Ramanuja, Madhva,Vallabha and others came out with their own commentaries which are popular amongtheir followers. In modern times Sant Jnanesvar, B.G.Tilak, Aurobindo contributedtheir original thinking on the text.Despite this enormous popularity, the Bhagavad Gita remains a less understood but abetter known text; people know more about it than what is it about. On the analogy ofwhat the Bhagavad Gita says in Chapter 2, Verse 29 some look upon the book asmarvelous, a scripture of extraordinary or mysterious value, some others speak of the
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