Saturday, September 15, 2007

Bhagavad-gita

Bhagavad-gita is the main source book on Bhakti yoga and a concise summary of India’s Vedic wisdom. It explains how to act for God in our life and develop our love for Him, the three modes of material nature, the divine and demoniac natures, and much more.

Bhagavad-gita As It Is is the largest-selling, most widely used edition of the Gita in the world. It includes the original Sanskrit text, the English equivalent for each Sanskrit word, prose translations, plus elaborate commentary on each verse.

The Bhagavad-gita is universally renowned as the jewel of India's spiritual wisdom.
It is is also known as Gitopanisad & is the essence of Vedic knowledge & one of the most important Upanisads in Vedic literature.

Spoken by Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead to His intimate disciple Arjuna, the Gita's 700 concise verses provide a definitive guide to the science of self realization.

The purpose of Bhagavad Gita is to deliver mankind from the nescience of material existence. No other philosophical or religious work reveals, in such a lucid & profound way, the nature of consciousness, the self, the universe & the Supreme.

Lord Krishna is considered to be the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu. His recitations to Arjun on the battlefields of Mahabharata formed the Bhagwad Gita.

The main objective of Gita is to help people struggling in the darkness of ignorance cross the ocean of transmigration and reach the spiritual shore of liberation while living and working in the society. The central teaching of the Gita is the attainment of freedom from the bondage of life by doing one's duty.

The congregational chanting of the maha-mantra, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, is accepted by the Vedas as the most effective means of self-purification in this age. The Vedas describe the mantra as a prayer to the Lord, "Please Lord, engage me in Your service".

When one realizes Him by His grace, the knots of ignorance are loosened, all doubts and confusion are dispelled, and all Karma is exhausted

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