Namaste.
I wanted to speak a little bit about the Bhagavad Gita.
Many times people have heard of the Gita in yoga sessions,
In classes,
In social media,
But they don't necessarily understand the deeper meaning of the Gita.
You see,
The Bhagavad Gita was given over 5,
000 years ago on a battlefield.
It was given to a warrior by an enlightened being.
This warrior's name was Arjuna,
And he was faced with the biggest battle of his life.
There were millions and millions of soldiers trying to kill him.
As he looks across the battlefield,
And he's about to prepare for the war,
He's overcome with anxiety,
He's overcome with sadness,
Depression,
Confusion about whether or not he should fight or he should run away.
So in this deep confusion,
He turns to his charioteer,
Whose name is Krishna,
And he asks Krishna for guidance.
You see,
Krishna wasn't just a normal charioteer.
Krishna was the divine who had come to help Arjuna,
Who had come to assist Arjuna.
And so with this question of Arjuna,
This longing of Arjuna to get clarity about whether or not he should fight,
Krishna starts to give the teachings of the Gita.
The Gita comprises of various yoga techniques,
Various ways of looking at life to ultimately help us to gain this clarity in ourselves about how to do our duty.
Many people think that the Bhagavad Gita was given on a battlefield.
It was given 5,
000 years ago.
So it's not so practical in my life.
But you see,
The Bhagavad Gita has never been more practical than this day and age.
The battlefield represents life.
It represents all of our obstacles and our ups and downs that we have to face.
You see,
Many of us were very confused about how to do our duty.
Should we quit our job?
Should we not?
Should we be in a relationship?
Should we not?
How do we deal with our friends?
How do we deal with our family?
How do we deal with life?
And so in this confusion,
We act in a way that doesn't necessarily bring us peace,
But more suffering.
And Arjuna represents none other than ourselves.
We are the warrior in the battlefield of life,
Trying to navigate through the obstacles that life throws at us.
And Krishna represents our higher self,
That divine being,
That clarity that gives us guidance about how to do our duty properly.
You see,
For many of us,
Doing the duty means dropping from the mind to the heart.
The mind causes confusion.
The mind is constantly running.
But when we're in the state of the heart,
We find this love,
This peace,
This clarity about how to do our duty.
It is an internal pilgrimage that we all take.
So in the same way,
The Bhagavad Gita is an internal pilgrimage that we take.
And that pilgrimage is very,
Very short.
It's just from the mind to the heart.
But it can take an entire life to complete.
So in that way,
By studying the Bhagavad Gita,
Going into the yoga techniques,
Going into the philosophy,
Putting ourselves in the shoes of Arjuna,
We start to gain more clarity in our own lives.
In the future,
I will be coming out with more sessions on the Bhagavad Gita,
Where we speak about various yoga techniques,
Various meditations,
And various philosophies that we can practice to help us find this clarity about how to do our duty properly in this world.
So thank you so much,
Much love,
And take care.
