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The purpose of Bhagavad Gita is to provide an ethical orientation to the Vedic thought . It bridges theory with practise, metaphysics with ethics, contemplation with action making them complete and meaningful. Gita thus lays foundation to knowledge and its application.
Task in front of the originator of Bhagavad Gita, immaterial of whether it's divine or not, was so enormous - expounding the ethical implications in the absolute metaphysics of Vedic thoughts - a task that needed erudition to utmost degree. But it's curious to note that the authority of Vedas are neither been negated ,challenged or accepted in toto by the Bhagavad Gita.
Bhagavad Gita delineates that material happiness should not be made the summum bonum of life. Actions must be performed with out any expectation attached to its result. The sense of duty prescribed in Gita, is not barren like the Kantian doctrine "Duty for Duty's sake".
Its pointed out many a times that without any motive there cannot spring any action, and Gita does not by any means repudiate this psychological fact. In fact the motive Gita enunciates is much more powerful but which is neither intelligible nor a worthwhile vocation for any average empiricists and those who according to Plato, lead the life of senses.
A person seeking perfection must necessarily develop an equanimous attitude. The equanimity and apathy towards worldly possessions, actions and more over on their results are a psychological result of the attention on things beyond the world of senses. For a person seeking perfection both moral and intellectual , it is the higher realizations that matter, which goes beyond any worldly riches or power. Gita
According to the Bhagavad Gita, even if one falter is the pursuit of divine purpose the act will not be devoid of any moral value. (Any act towards Self-Completeness is moral) and thus on this philosophy Bhagavad Gita reconciles the secular or semi spiritual goal of human welfare with the purely spiritual goal of Moksha.
Gita therefore while accepting the Vedic Cult of pursuing worldly happiness by propitiating to Gods, exhorts each of its readers to rise above sensual involvements , that gives nothing but a fleeting or momentary illusion of happiness and proceed on the path of selfless action, ultimately reaching limitless joy.
Bhagavad Gita for me, is therefore essentially a philosophy of action.
[ Reference: 1) The Yoga of Bhagavad Gita - Swami Krishnananda, 2) Gita - A Philosophy of Action - Dr. A.S. Pillai ]
The purpose of Bhagavad Gita is to provide an ethical orientation to the Vedic thought . It bridges theory with practise, metaphysics with ethics, contemplation with action making them complete and meaningful. Gita thus lays foundation to knowledge and its application.
Task in front of the originator of Bhagavad Gita, immaterial of whether it's divine or not, was so enormous - expounding the ethical implications in the absolute metaphysics of Vedic thoughts - a task that needed erudition to utmost degree. But it's curious to note that the authority of Vedas are neither been negated ,challenged or accepted in toto by the Bhagavad Gita.
Bhagavad Gita delineates that material happiness should not be made the summum bonum of life. Actions must be performed with out any expectation attached to its result. The sense of duty prescribed in Gita, is not barren like the Kantian doctrine "Duty for Duty's sake".
Its pointed out many a times that without any motive there cannot spring any action, and Gita does not by any means repudiate this psychological fact. In fact the motive Gita enunciates is much more powerful but which is neither intelligible nor a worthwhile vocation for any average empiricists and those who according to Plato, lead the life of senses.
A person seeking perfection must necessarily develop an equanimous attitude. The equanimity and apathy towards worldly possessions, actions and more over on their results are a psychological result of the attention on things beyond the world of senses. For a person seeking perfection both moral and intellectual , it is the higher realizations that matter, which goes beyond any worldly riches or power. Gita
According to the Bhagavad Gita, even if one falter is the pursuit of divine purpose the act will not be devoid of any moral value. (Any act towards Self-Completeness is moral) and thus on this philosophy Bhagavad Gita reconciles the secular or semi spiritual goal of human welfare with the purely spiritual goal of Moksha.
Gita therefore while accepting the Vedic Cult of pursuing worldly happiness by propitiating to Gods, exhorts each of its readers to rise above sensual involvements , that gives nothing but a fleeting or momentary illusion of happiness and proceed on the path of selfless action, ultimately reaching limitless joy.
Bhagavad Gita for me, is therefore essentially a philosophy of action.
[ Reference: 1) The Yoga of Bhagavad Gita - Swami Krishnananda, 2) Gita - A Philosophy of Action - Dr. A.S. Pillai ]
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