(Dr. Ambica Kumari)
As the name itself indicates,Mokshada Ekadashi is a highly auspicious day dedicated to worship of Lord Vishnu – Shri Hari to get rid of all your sins and to achieve moksha or liberation after death. The ekdashi is celebrated on the same day as Gita Jayanti, the day when Krishna gave the holy sermon of the Bhagavad Gita to the Pandava prince Arjuna, as described in the hindu epicMahabharata. The 700-verse Bhagavad Gita told at the beginning of the climactic Mahabharata war between the Pandavas and their cousins, the Kauravas at Kurukshetra, deals with a variety of Hindu philosophical ideas.
The Bhagavad Gita is a vast book, but it is vital to learn it under the guidance of a master for right interpretation otherwise we may understand from our own point of view. In this materialistic world, we are prone to negative feelings. It may be either because of our actions or others’. But when we become the Master of our own mind, we will never again feel the agony of pain or sorrow.A human’s birth is to achieve the highest potential. In every religion, sacred texts show the followers the path of self actualization.The Bhagavad-Gita is the eternal message of spiritual wisdom from ancient India. The word Gita means song and the word Bhagavad means God, often the Bhagavad-Gita is called the Song of God. The purpose of life as per Bhagavad–Gita is to purify our existence from all material contamination by practicing Bhakti-yoga or Devotional Service and at the end of life go back home, back to Godhead, i.e., Lord Krishna’s abode.The Bhagavad–gita is such an important scripture that it can help us to get out of the cycle of birth and death. Anyone who recites Bhagavad–gita with devotion will go to the spiritual world at the time of death.There is no significant problem in life which cannot be referred to the Bhagavad Gita for a perfect solution. In recent years, the Gita has been recognized as a perpetual source of wisdom in many fields such as psychiatry, management, administration, leadership etc. thus bringing it acceptability beyond Hindu religion and the Indian shores.
Teachings of The Bhagvad Gita
1. Concentrate On Your Goal. Do your work and focus not on the result.
2. Human Life Is Full Of Battles: Never Shirk In fear – Fight To The Last.
3.The bodies are different but the SOUL is one. And that is the ULTIMATE TRUTH.
- Caught in the chains of desire will always end in harm, stress and the result – rebirth.
5.A Mind Full Of Thoughts About Materialistic things(money,status etc. most prominent in todays world) neither Concentrate nor Meditate.6.Whatever Has Happened Is Only For The Good Future. The Activities That Are Happening At Present Are Also For A Good Cause. The Happenings In The Future, will be good.
7.NOTHING IS PERMANENT.One who is king today ,will bein jail tomorrow. When you accept change as a part of life, you can handle all the tough situations in a calm manner.
- You Are Born Empty-Handed, And You Will Leave This Mother Earth Empty-Handed.
- Lust, Anger and Greed – Ways to Self-destruction.Your thoughts define your life. If you think to be happy even in times of failure, you will be happy. If you let revenge take over the mind even in times of success, you harbor negative emotions. Superstitions, revenge, anger,envy,jealous,proud and insults are some negative emotions. They prevent us from becoming a human being.
- Be in a state of happiness whatever the circumstances.The essence of the entire message of Lord Krishna, Bhagavad Gita, is to develop the highest state in which you can be in the state of continuous enjoyment and happiness through entertainment. If you can enjoy the problems also, such continuous state of happiness is possible. The human being has always the worst tendency to pick-up negative things only in the life and go on brooding over those things.
- Desires are always insatiable. (Rise above your desires, experience the stillness of mind)
- God is inside everything and everything is inside god.
- Stop worrying. (Whatever happened was good, whatever is happening is good and what all will happen in the future will be good)
- Always do work/duty for the sake of work/duty, don’t do it with a feeling of achieving something. ( Submit your work to supreme power)
Divine Path And Lessons in Bhagavad Gita gives us practical impressions of human principles. Let us read and make our life meaningful, happy, contended and self actualized
( The author is Assistant Professor in Psychology at GCOE, Jammu)
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