God Has Never Broken Any Promise Ever Spoken! By Santhanam Nagarajan

There is a wonderful inscription to be found on a slab in a cathedral of Lubeck in Germany.

The inscription declares:

Ye call Me Master, and obey Me not,

Ye call Me Way, and walk Me not,

Ye call Me wise, and follow Me not,

Ye call Me Fair, and love Me not,

Ye call Me Rich, and ask Me not,

Ye call Me Eternal, and seek Me not,

Ye call Me Gracious, and trust Me not,

Ye call Me Noble, and serve Me not,

Ye call Me Mighty, and honor Me not,

Ye call Me Just, and fear Me not,

If I condemn You, blame Me not.

The words are meaningful.

In Bhagavat Gita Lord Krishna declares to Arjuna: "O, Arjuna, whenever righteousness is on decline, and unrighteousness is in the ascendant, then I body Myself forth."

"For the protection of the virtuous, for the extirpation of evil-doers, and for establishing righteousness on a firm footing, I am born from age to age" (Gita chapter four, verses 8 and 9)
The Lord awakens in the minds of the people faith in and reverence for the Vedas and other sacred scriptures, the other world, saints and God by carrying out the injunctions of the scriptures in His own personal life,and demonstrating the glory of righteousness by the use of His inspiring and powerful words and messages, and developing among the people a natural love and reverence for virtues and right conduct, makes them strongly cling to them.

He always protect the virtuous, destruct the evil-doers and establish the righteousness.
He reveals a simple way for salvation.
Lord Krishna says to Arjuna: " Resigning all your duties to Me, the all-powerful and all-supporting Lord, take refuge in Me alone. I shall absolve you of all sins, worry not" (Gita chapter 18, verse 66)
Krishna thus concludes his teaching of the Gita by giving a promise to the entire mankind.

Calling Him the Way and walking in that Way is left to us.
And God has never broken any promise ever spoken.

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The Glory of Bhagavat Gita - Part I By Santhanam Nagarajan

The Mahabharata says: "The Gita comprises all the scriptures".

The Gita is the essence of all the Hindu scriptures.

Swami Ramatirtha narrates how Emerson has recommended very strongly the study of Gita. He writes:

"Mr. Mallory, a great personal friend of Emerson told Rama as to how Emerson had strongly recommended to him the study of the Bhagavat Gita and lent him a copy for just three weeks claiming that that was the first copy brought into America. It cost Emerson a full pound, 5 dollars! It is translated by Sir Charles Welkins with an introduction by Warren Hastings."

This copy is still in the Boston Public Library.

Special attention was drawn by Emerson to the translation of the verse 'mayi sarvamidam proktha' etc."

The Gita consists of 700 verses.

The number of verses attributed to the various characters figuring in the Gita in order of the chapters will be as follows:

1) Dhrtharastra Chapter one - one verse

2) Sanjaya Chapter one - 25 verses, two - 3, eleven - 8, eighteen - 5 (Total 41 verses)

3) Arjuna Chapter one - 21 verses, two - 6, three - 3 verses, four - 1,five - 1 verse, six - 5 verses, eight - 2, ten - 7, eleven - 33, twelve - 1, fourteen - 1, seventeen - 1, eighteen - 2 (Total 84 verses)

4) Lord Krishna Chapter two - 63 verses, three - 40 verses, four - 41, five - 28, six - 42, seven - 30, eight - 26, nine - 34, ten - 35, eleven - 14, twelve - 19, thirteen - 34, fourteen - 26, fifteen - 20, sixteen - 24, seventeen - 27, eighteen - 71 (Total 574 verses)

The chapter wise verses will be as follows:

Chapter one - 47 verses, two - 72, three - 43, four - 42, five - 29, six - 47, seven - 30, eight - 28, nine - 34, ten - 42, eleven - 55, twelve - 20, thirteen - 34, fourteen - 27, fifteen - 20, sixteen - 24, seventeen - 28, eighteen - 78 verses (Total 700 verses)

It is highly recommended that those who are spiritually inclined should read the Gita.

Every verse spoken by the Lord is beautiful and has pregnant meaning in it.

Lord Krishna reveals himself in the tenth chapter which is named as Vibhuti yoga (The yoga of Divine manifestations).

Lord Krishna says to Arjuna:

"Neither gods nor the great sage know the secret of My birth ( that is, My appearance in human or other garb out of mere sport); for I am the prime cause in all respects of gods as well as of the great seers.

He who knows Me in reality as birth less and without beginning, and as the supreme Lord of the Universe, he, undeluded among men, is purged of all sins.

Reason, right knowledge, unclouded understanding, forbearance, veracity, control over the senses and mind, joy and sorrow, evolution and dissolution, fear and fearlessness, non-violence equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame and obloquy, - these diverse traits of creatures emanate from Me alone."

Those who read Gita will march forward in his/her spiritual path. There is no doubt in it

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Lord Krishna and Bhagavat Gita By Kevin Fernandez

The Kurukshetra war is supposed to the most important war in Hindu mythology. It was in this war, Lord Krishna, leaving his army to Kaurava side, became the charioteer of Prince Arjuna. He had given the option of choosing either him or his huge army, to both Pandavas and Kauravas. It was Arjuna who chose him and his army was chosen by Duryodhana. In this war Lord Krishna advises Arjuna and revealed the truths about life. These insights were collectively known as Bhagavat Gita.

Bhagavat Gita

Gita contains advises, which Krishna gives Arjuna after seeing his dilemmas and confusions on fighting the war with his cousins, teachers, elders and friends. Krishna explains to him the duties of a warrior, a prince, about his karma and dharma in life. The spiritual text contains many philosophies, analogies and examples. It is in Kurukshetra war that Lord Krishna reveals his identity as the supreme God by displaying his Vishwarupa. Krishna tells Arjuna that Kurukshetra war is a Dharma Yudha, meaning a war to let Dharma prevail.

The five main truths of live, as described in Gita, are Ishwara, Prakriti, Kaala, Dharma and Jiva. Ishwara means the supreme controller of this universe. Prakriti is the basic nature of intelligence by which the universe functions. It is the base on which the works of creation is done. Kaala is referred to time or the age. Dharma is the law of nature, which binds all the forces together.

Gita basically give emphasis on the idea that one has to grow beyond the physical limitations of self and identify oneself with the eternal soul. Bhagavat Gita is a part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata and it contains a total of 700 verses.

Important Verses

One of the most important verses in Gita is 'Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya...Srijamyaham'. Through these lines Lord Krishna assures Arjuna that when the world becomes a playground of Adharma and Dharma is not at all protected, then he will take birth again and protect the world from evil forces. Another verse 'Paritranaya Sadhunam...Yuge Yuge' also holds important meaning. In order to protect the sages from evil forces, to kill evil forces and to make Dharma prevail in the world, Lord Krishna will take birth again in all the ages.

Apart from Arjuna, Gita was also heard by Sanjaya - the associate of Dhritarashtra (who is blind) - to whom Veda Vyasa had given the power of Divya Drishti, to see the war completely. Lord Hanuman and Barbarika, Ghatotkacha's son were also recipients of these insights.

Gita is also known as Gitopanishad, suggesting that this Holy Scripture is equal to an Upanishad. But as it has the summary of teachings of all the Upanishads, it is also known as Upanishad of the Upanishads.

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The Glory of Bhagavat Gita - Part II - Einstein and Gita By Santhanam Nagarajan

An interesting incident took place in 1948-49. A young researcher by name Dr B.M. Gupta met Dr Einstein, the accepted father of Modern science in Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies in the States. The German scientist hailed him in Sanskrit instead of English. The Indian scientist pleaded his inability to reply in Sanskrit. Dr Einstein was amazed at the poor response of the young Indian scientist and said, "You hail from India which is the original home of Hindu philosophy, yet you have not cared to learn that language. See my library which treasures classics from Sanskrit namely the Gita and other treatises on Hindu Philosophy. I have made the Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guidance for the purpose of scientific investigations and formulation of my theories."

Not only Einstein, but Thoreau the great thinker also derived his inspiration from the Gita and Upanishads. He himself categorically states thus: "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and the cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavat Gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions."

Also while talking about the pyramids of Egypt Thoreau says, "How much more admirable the Bhagavat Gita than all the ruins of the East".

From time immemorial, the Gita injected enthusiasm to the humanity as a whole.

Mahatma Gandhi, Bala Gangadara Thilak, Maharishi Aurobindo, Mother of Aurobindo Ashram, the great poet Subramanya Bharathi of Tamilnadu, Bhankim Chandra Chatterji, the great poet Rabindranath Tagore were all derived their inspiration from Gita. These are only a few. Hundreds of thousands of persons worldwide get their answers from Gita for their day-to-day problems. We may quote Mahatama Gandhi as to how he got his comfort from the verses of Gita.

Mahatma Gandhi said: "When doubts haunt me, when disappointments starve me in the face, and I see not one ray of light on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavat Gita, and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible or invisible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavat Gita."

S. Nagarajan is a vehicle body engineer by profession. He has written more than 3000 articles in 18 magazines and published 52 books. He is revealing Eastern Secret Wisdom through T.V. Programmes, magazine articles, seminars, courses. He has written articles on Yoga, laughter, efficacy of mantras and sound, Hypnotism, Tele Kinesis, Power of Prayer, Vastu and Feng Shui, Auto suggestion, Success Formula, Out of Body Experience etc.

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