Chapter ten reveals Lord Krishna’s exalted position as the cause of all causes. Also specifying His special manifestations and opulences. Arjuna prays to the Lord to describe more of the opulences and the Lord describes those which are most prominent. Thus this chapter is entitled: The Infinite Glories of the Ultimate Truth.
The Bhagavad Gita is very close to my heart. And yet there is a passage in it that confusesme. It is when Arjuna wishes to flee the battle and renounce the world. But Krishna urges him to fulfill his duty by staying put and fighting.How is this advice understood with the principle of non-violence, a concept also central to the Gita? Is it similar to the notion of a just war in Christian and Islamic theology?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The whole essence of the Gita is to act without being attached to the
action. It’s all about yoga, not about war but your attitude. When you are
faced with a situation like war, how do you manage yourself? The worst
situation in life is when you have to face a war and when you have to fight not
with an enemy, but with some of your own people. When you have to fight with
your own brothers and sisters, how do you handle the situation? It’s easy to
fight a war with an enemy, someone you don’t like. But fighting with someone
who is part of your own family is the worst thing.
If you can manage your mind in the worst scenario, then you can manage yourself in any situation. Given the extreme example of how you can manage the mind, the consciousness,
yourself, that’s the whole essence of the gita not the war. Skill in action is yoga.
A similar knowledge was taught by Ashtavakra, in the palace. When your spirit is very high and you want liberation, that was Ashtavakra’s state. And when your spirit is so low, totally desperate, completely broken and depressed, that was Arjuna’s state. At that time the same knowledge of the Self was given to him in the Bhagavad Gita.
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