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Awe Unfounded

The Bhagavad-Gita, popularly known as Gita, with its twin tracks of spiritual ethos and philosophical outlook, helps man coe of life The unsurpassed art of living that the Gita expostulates, paves the way for the ‘liberation of man’ and that’s what makes the Gita, which probably is around for over two millennia now, the treatise of self-help

Nonetheless, all along, its spiritual track has co the religiously inclined men and women for most part Even Mahatma Gandhi, the most famous and ardent advocate of Gita of our times, was eloquent about the spiritual solace that it afforded him Needless to say, the innuet voiced in discourses invariably coio-spiritual orientation Insensibly, all these led to the public perception of the Gita as a spiritual toht about a situation where everyone swears by it but few venture to approach it That is due to, either the general lack of spiritual inclination in ht be beyond one’s comprehension And those who atteh – bowled either by the spiritual spin in theological jargon or tired of those lengthy commentaries Oh, don’t these texts tend to exhibit the coain, hardly any reach the end, which would have helped the been bogged down in the see that’s tailor made for him! And it is all about realization made difficult

The public or private discourses on the Gita relatively fare better for they enthrall the audience by the eloquence of the speaker besides the interest the interspersed anecdotes elicit However, ae would seldoister in the minds of those who try to seek it Of course, the coredient of understanding - contemplation After all, Krishna himself recommends to Arjuna at the end of his talk, s63, ch18,

‘That thee heard of this wisdom

For task on hand now apply e of the gods for the Hindus, and for the 18th Century British intellectual Sir William Jones, ‘is of wonderful structure, more perfect than Greek, more copious than Latin and more exquisitely refined than either’were in currency now, it would have been a different proposition Thus, the average person needing no interpretative crutchesabout the profound wisdo in the sophisticated philosophy it postulates That would have afforded one to view hu his or her own, in that conteht be if and when Sanskrit, by the will of the gods, becoe of the masses in times to come