We are studying Bhagavad Gita. Yes. For us, it is a religious text and in India, we have heard since childhood that it is of immense significance.
But we are here to study as Mind Science. While in India, many read as Hindu religious text, the world over it is read as one of the Ultimate Alchemy. Mind Science is not simply Western psychology or parapsychology. Mind science attempts to study the link between mind and matter at the fundamental level and draws upon principles from quantum mechanics and the wisdom traditions of ancient civilizations.
So the context of this group is to not Analyze Mahabharata characters like Arjuna or Duryodhana, Pandavas or Kauravas. They are just a medium for us to look within our own life. Who am I? What is it that I really want?
For example, Arjuna’s dilemma is valid or not? – To get an answer for this, revisit some areas of your life – you may have dilemmas like – Whether to spend so much money on this course or not? Whether to speak or not? My office is unfair to me – should I speak to my boss or not? Should I tell about this to my spouse or not? and the dilemmas are endless. How do I say no to this person? How can I say no to my own kids/parents/siblings? etc. These are some examples of dilemmas from our daily life. You know better coz there are thousands of such questions.
This group is about looking in your life’s deepest core.
So here are some suggestions on how to study in the group.
Try not to analyze too much of 5000 years old characters judgments. Rather thru their example, try to look within your areas of life. Whatever happened 5000 years ago is past which cannot be changed.
Try to get your own meanings and not follow old commentaries which only analyze Mahabharata characters actions. We are not here to judge their characters but learn from them. Commentaries give your perspective.
Try to be regular
If Gita was meant to be only for Arjuna, it would have not been read in every household. Its significance is for a purpose. The entire universal truth is available in these 700 verses for us. Be willing and open your mind.
How many of us have seen the TV serial, Krishna? When he was an infant he opened his mouth to show the entire universe in it. (Have tried to find that pic below). That’s what Krishna communicates in Gita. We always want to complicate simple things and hence it has been addressed from different vantage points. We are not in the Universe. Each one of us is a Universe in itself.
I remember A course in Miracles. This course is just 3 lines. But human minds complicate it so much that there are approx. 1200 pages to address those 3 lines from different vantage points. The whole course is just 3 lines but a commentary has about 1200 pages.
I would share my small journey here. Though I have been reading Bhagavad Gita for almost 25 years. I started getting the real essence of it only about 4 years ago and slowly as I was researching and interviewing people for my books, I went on chipping more and more layers to reach to the core. I even thought of simplifying it as much possible and this where the journey begins with the study group. About 1.5 years ago, while I was writing my second book ‘Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth – A New Scripture for Women’. The theme I had chosen for the book allowed me to look at it in a more deeper way. I had chosen to communicate a small part of it thru this fiction. We forget the knowledge but we don’t forget the story. Hence we don’t read Vedas, but we enjoy reading Ramayana and Mahabharata. It is said that Bhagavad Gita has entire universal knowledge.
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This is the theme:
Today’s mankind is a product of the culture of thousands of years. From the time we are born, we are socialized into playing traditional gender roles. Certain differences between the sexes are natural while the others are cultural and social (manmade).
The book explores men and women’s relationships with each other-mother-son, father-daughter, mother-daughter, father-son, brother-sister, girlfriend-boyfriend, husband-wife-and themselves.
Be it any relationship, there are men and women involved. The kind of relationship we share with the same or opposite gender stems from our very first relationship with that gender, that is, with a mother and a father. And this is what the book deals with. Delving into the dynamics of these relationships, it brings forth a new definition of what it means to be a man or a woman through the characters Rhea, Siddhartha and Rohan.
#NewHuman
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Considering this theme, we rely so much upon old commentaries which may or may not have emerged from the centuries of old-age conditioning.