The Bhagavad Gt ( Song of God), also more

simply known as Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu

scripture that is part of the ancient Hindu epic,
the Mahabharata, one of the several books that
comprise the more general Vedic tradition. It is
revealed scripture in the views of Hindus, the
scripture for Hindus represents the words and
message of god, the book is considered among
the most important texts in the history of
literature and philosophy. The teacher of the
Bhagavad Gita is Lord Krishna, who is revered by
Hindus as a manifestation of God (Parabrahman)
Himself, and is referred to within as Bhagavan, the
Divine One.

The context of the Gita is a conversation between

Lord Krishna and the Pandava prince Arjuna taking
place in the middle of the battlefield before the start
of the Kurukshetra War with armies on both sides
ready to battle. Responding to Arjuna's confusion
and moral dilemma about fighting his own cousins
who command a tyranny imposed on a disputed
empire, Lord Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as
a warrior and prince, and elaborates on different
Yogic and Vedantic philosophies, and explains
different ways in which the soul can reach the
supreme being with examples and analogies. This
has led to the Gita often being described as a
concise guide to Hindu theology and also as a
practical, self-contained guide to life.

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GITA IS EMBEDED

Change is the law of life

What you call death is life itself
In a moment you are king and
in a moment you are poor man.
Surrender unto the Lord
He is ultimate support
He who experiences
this is completely free from
FEAR, WORRY and DESPAIR
whatever you do offer it unto him
By you shall forever
experience eternal bliss

Leaders and politicians may take lessons from the life of

Mahatma Gandhi, who was undoubtedly a great and busy
politician, with respect to his daily evening prayer meeting and
regular recitation of the text of Bhagavad-gita. He followed this
principle of life most faithfully, even up to the last moment of
his lamented life. People in general and the leaders in
particular, may follow the footprints of Mahatma Gandhi, if they
at all want to do some good to their followers. Such regular
habit of reciting the reading of the Bhagavad-gita makes one
able to get rid of the demoniac way of life and gradually rise up
to the plane of pure devotional life of the god. When such
devotional life is enriched by recitation of Bhagavad-gita, all the
good qualities of the god automatically overcome the reciter
without any extraneous effort on his part. Those who have
developed such existence of life, generally known as spiritual
life, are called Mahatmas in the language of Bhagavad-gita.

Bhagavad Gita for Modern Times: Secrets to Attaining Inner

Peace and Harmony is a unique commentary on the Gita the
most profound Hindu scripture. This universal manual for
peaceful living by Swami SadashivaTirtha seeks to offer
modern-day guidance based on the teachings of the holy
book of the Hindus.

The physicist Leo Szilard once told a friend he intended to

keep a diary to record the facts for God. Dont you think
God knows the facts? his friend asked. Yes, said Szilard,
He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the
facts.

Most often, The Bhagavad Gita adorns personal bookshelves,

but remains there gathering dust for posterity. Although
aware of its profound wisdom, no one has the leisure to
ruminate on its teachings and apply it for betterment or
empowerment.

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Filled with such evocative allusions, this book serves

as a guide to applying ancient wisdom in ones daily
life to find oneself, strengthen family ties, develop a
more meaningful career, achieve greater peace and
harmony, discover lifes purpose and vision,
understand the connection between various
religions, apply the exercises to cultivate a more
peaceful life. The book incorporates the essence of
the Gitas revered teachings with fresh concepts,
including how to reduce stress through meditation,
how to achieve familial harmony, how ecology and
nature affect inner peace, how to nurture wellrounded education for children, and how to impart
social entrepreneurial benefits to communities.

Throughout, the commentary remains true

to the wisdom of the original text. It also
offers a wealth of stress-management
adviceperfect for yoga instructors,
business professionals, even busy parents.
And very appropriately, Tirtha dedicates the
book to all people seeking greater peace,
harmony and balance of their spiritual
priorities with their worldly goals and
responsibilities, all bhaktas who are seeking
how to integrate Vedanta and Bhakti, and all
those seeking some insight into the
universality of religions, spirituality, nature,
and ethics.

Thousands of years before the introduction and the

development of spiritual intelligence, Lord Krishna in
the Bhagavad-Gita had discussed about the spiritual
intelligence that the present day researchers are talking
about. Spiritual intelligence provides us with complete
personality and truthfulness. It is the intelligence of our
spirit. By the help of this intelligence, we contemplate
over the basic questions of our life and reshape our
answers. To resolve the conflict arising in the mind of
Arjuna, Lord Krishna discussed about the four
dimensions of conflict and awakened his soul through
spiritual discourse. Spiritual intelligence is the finetuning of intellectual faculty and this is nonphysical and
inspirational in nature. The Bhagavad-Gita teaches this
wisdom. It literatures on spiritual intelligence and uses
hermeneutics a qualitative research methodology, which
is the interpretation of an ancient or a classical
literature

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Empowerment is a relatively recent movement in the context

of human development so far as western world is concerned.
India has long been a civilization giving immense respectto
women and providing them equal oppoprtunities to exercise
power in day to day life and inmportant decisions. Here the
popular saying goes that- Yatra naryastu pujyante ramante
tatra devatah - meaning whereever women are resopected
and worshipped, there lies divinity and prosperity. The
present paper analyses the concept of women empowerment
in the cultural perspective of India and brings out the
anomaliesin the modern/ western concept of women
empowerment which, according to the authors, is one-sided
and largely materialistic in nature, leading to chaos and
imbalance in personal as well ass social life. As per the
authors, thismisconception needs to be immediately
modified for the larger interest of the mankind creating
better opportunities for life on this beautiful planet. This
paper then suggests ways and means to empower women in
the true sense as per the Indian thought and philosophy. The
paper concludes with quoting the Bhagavad-Gita that the
secret of empowerment is the self effort and balance in all
walks of life (Bhagavad-Gita:6.6)

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GITA

"na jayate mriyate va kadacin

nayam bhutva bhavita va na bhuyah
ajo nityah sasvato yam purano
na hanyate hanyamane sarire" (Bhagwat
Gita: Chapter Two verse 20)
"Sri Krishna said: The soul is never
born nor dies at any time. Soul has
not come into being, does not come
into being, and will not come into
being. Soul is unborn, eternal, everexisting and primeval. Soul is not
slain when the body is slain."

"vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya

navani grhnati naro parani
tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany
anyani samyati navani dehi" (Bhagwat Gita:
Chapter Two verse 22)
"Sri Krishna said: As a human being puts
on new garments, giving up old ones, the
soul similarly accepts new material
bodies, giving up the old and useless
ones."

"nainam chindanti shastrani

nainam dahati pavakah
na chainam kledayanty apo
na sosayati marutah" (Bhagwat Gita:
Chapter Two verse 23)
"Sri Krishna said: The soul can never
be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor
burned by fire, nor moistened by
water, nor withered by the wind."

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