GEETA SAAR

Of whom are you afraid?

Who can kill you?

Soul never takes birth, never dies.

You are that soul, you are immortal.

Whatever happened was good.

Whatever is happening is good.

Whatever shall happen will be good.

Don't lament the past.

Don't worry about future.

Present is here, take care of it.

What is lost for which you cry?

What you brought with you in this world which is lost?

What is your creation, which is destroyed?

You did not bring anything with you.

Whatever you received was here.

Whatever you give was here.

You received all from God.

You give all to God.

Your hands were empty at birth.

They shall be empty at death.

What is yours today belonged to somebody else yesterday.

What is yours today shall belong to somebody else tomorrow.

You attach yourself unnecessarily which is source of sorrows.

Change is law of nature.

What you consider is death, is life.

In one moment you become owner of millions.

Next moment you become a pauper.

Wash away the feelings of mine-thine, high-low from you mind

Remove them from your thoughts

Then all will belong to you and

You will belong to all.

This body is not yours.

You are not this body.

This body is made of five elements -

Space, air, fire, water and earth.

One day it shall merge in five elements.

Soul is eternal.

You are that soul.

Submit yourself to God

This is the best shelter.

One who knows this shelter never knows -

Fear, worry or sorrow.

Whatever you do submit that to God.

You will experience liberation by doing thus.

(This is some insight into Bhagwad Geeta. In fact this writing is called ‘Geeta Saar'- means essence of Geeta but has been composed from a simple, easy to understand view. The ideas contained in Bhagwad Geeta are much more vast, deep and liberating. Sense and ideas of duty, family, relation, work, management, psychology, various aspects of human nature, spirituality, responsibility, self welfare and welfare of others, brotherhood, unity, faith, harmony with self and others, cycle of creation, life and death, consciousness and virtually everything related to the mystery of existence can be known from this. There are total 18 chapters and 700 verses in Bhagwad Geeta. Though small in size, it is juice of human wisdom. It was told by Krishan to his friend and disciple Arjun in most unusual circumstances. The book is in Sanskrit language. There are lots of translations of this book in other languages. I have also translated and published it in Hindi language. Someday I hope to translate it into English language as well. Translations of great works are a gigantic task. I was told by a nice soul that 20 scholars took 10 years to translate Bible to Dutch language. The basic ideas, emotions have to be taken care of when telling them again in other language. I find it difficult to translate in English a few articles which I have written in Hindi. Sometimes I have to change the idea and sometimes there are not equivalent words. This can be done with personal works, but when we try to translate which is not personal, we can't take liberty of altering ideas and translated work must be same in spirit with the original one. In 2006 ‘Geeta Jayanti'- the day on which Geeta was told is on December 1. This day is determined as per traditional Indian calendar and the date keeps on changing in Gregorian calendar.