How Bhagavad Gita Changed My Life? – Lets first see how Bhagavad Gita changed Arjuna’s life
Before:
na hi prapaśyāmi mamāpanudyād
yac chokam ucchoṣaṇam indriyāṇām
avāpya bhūmāv asapatnam ṛddhaṁ
rājyaṁ surāṇām api cādhipatyam
[Bhagavad Gita 2.8]
I can find no means to drive away this grief which is drying up my senses. I will not be able to dispel it even if I win a prosperous, unrivaled kingdom on earth with sovereignty like the demigods in heaven.
After:
arjuna uvāca
naṣṭo mohaḥ smṛtir labdhā
tvat-prasādān mayācyuta
sthito ’smi gata-sandehaḥ
kariṣye vacanaṁ tava
[Bhagavad Gita 18.73]
Arjuna said: My dear Kṛṣṇa, O infallible one, my illusion is now gone. I have regained my memory by Your mercy. I am now firm and free from doubt and am prepare to act according to Your instructions.
Table of Contents
What is so special about Bhagavad Gita?
Bhagavad Gita is meant for those who wish to transcend all confusion. When you are confuse in your search for truth, then the removal of that kind of confusion will bring enlightenment to one and all.
Bhagavad Gita has been endearing to all those who seek Truth, who look for perfection, who are interest in a complete science of everything irrespective of caste, creed, religion, and nationality. This holy book presents the science of life, as it is, which was originally spoken to Arjun by Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the battlefie of Mahabharata approximately 5000 years ago
What Bhagavad Gita taught me?
To think of the main and deeper questions rather than the questions, we are condition to ask.
Such as Who am I?, What is my relation with Supreme? rather than What is the new web series? or What will I do after 5 years?
The importance of human life. It taught me how this human life is rare (Consider the percentage of Humans vs Total living beings in your house) and God has already made every arrangement for survival.
For eg when a child is born instantly mother’s milk is available but we have always created artificial necessities in life and we waste our lives chasing these artificial necessities
I got to know that there is so many identity crisis in the world, people don’t know the purpose of life rather than finding it they are just busy enjoying the 4 things ( Eating mating sleeping defending )- which an animal also enjoy but we enjoy in a sophisticated manner
Our real identity is that we are spirit souls and we are by nature always happy (Sat chit ananda) – that’s why we chase happiness everywhere but we are always trying to find happiness in matter which is dead or in temporary things like family, country but our attempts are baffle because we never get continuous happiness whereas our nature is eternal and we want everlasting Happiness
We are in a prison house and this world is so uncertain that anything could happen at any moment with us, so we have to prepare from now itself – How to detach my mind from temporary things and attach it to Krishna to pursue our real goal to get back our eternal svarupa in the spiritual world
If I can practice how to love God, then only I can love everyone selflessly and selfless love is the real happiness – you can see practically how a mother although eats nothing but is happy to feed her child. If you can similarly love God then that is the perfection of life
We have to start situating ourself in neutral platform and seeing things without being biase as Hindu , Muslim , Rich , Poor, boy, girl etc because these are all ephemeral designations of the body
How Bhagavad Gita helped me?
I waste less time now- (no movies, no web series), I have at least realized this that this human body is not for just enjoying but to find out about me and my relationship with God and the real happiness is that which comes directly from the soul, not from external objects
I try to see everything in Relation to Supreme, rather than my enjoyment or temporary designations so my relationships with other people have improved and I have been trying to respect every living being
- I have become more humble than before and anger, greed, pride, envy, etc have also reduced to some extent.
- Professionally I have become more stable and less greedy for mundane things.
- I have developed sincere faith that if I am able to spread Bhagavad Gita than that is the best welfare activity I can do for Mankind
- My mind has become stable and is less agitated by external things than before
- I have developed great tolerance since when I started Practicing Bhagavad Gita, my friends at IITK started criticizing me left and right but I tolerated everything and now I realize that was worth it
