So, when you have to decide what to do, when you are in a mess like Arjun, respond to the call of love, respond to the call of freedom. Go in that direction where truth lies even if it costs you a lot, even if it seems unreasonable, even if it scares and terrifies you, even if you cannot explain to others or even yourself, “Why are you moving in such a way or in such a direction? Still move in that way. Read more....
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The main concept of the Bhagavad Gita is Nishkam Karma.
Acharya Prashant: The ‘Bhagavad Gita’ discourse, the form of a dialog, commences in the theater of Kurukshetra. The first thing to be understood is that when a wise man, a sage, a prophet speaks, he is not really aiming to communicate concepts. It is just the limitation of the listener that he must be spoken to in words. A deep emptiness, a vast field of clarity is sought to be communicated. Words are just a medium. The immediate context is just that, a context, a pretext.
The Krishna-Arjun dialog apparently is about a particular situation, a particular man, his relatives, but really it is something else.
Arjun represents the mind. Krishna represents the center, the “Aatman”. The mind is lost as it always is.
