Bhagavad-Gita Summary By Chapters
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conditioned student |
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2010-02-25 |
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draft |
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Summary of Bhagavad-gita by Chapters
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§i Preface
- Authorized, genuine translation by Krishna Consciousness
movement, without adulteration.
- System of original verse, English transliteration,
Sanskrit-English word-for-word, translation and
purport.
- Offers a manuscript of great book of knowledge with
full parampara to establish Krishna Consciousness
soundly and progressively.
- Krishna Consciousness movement genuine, authorized,
natural -- based on Bhagavad-gita.
- Popular among young generations, older generations
express gratitude (as life members).
- Prabhupada gives credit to Bhakti-siddhanta Sarasvati
Maharaja, his guru.
- Coming down from Krishna through disciplic succession,
presents Krishna's will/mission.
- Original father of movement is Krishna, who came
down to human society a long time ago by disciplic
succession.
- Prabhupada's credit is trying to present Bhagavad-gita
without adultaration, Krishna's mission/will, without
personal ambition like any mundane speculators.
- Krishna is Absolute, no difference between His name,
form, qualities,...
- Difficult to understand by non-devotees like Mayavadis
- Difficult so understand for non-devotees (not in parampara)
they try to banish Krishna when writing commentary.
Lord Caitanya warned about these commentaries -- Mayavada
bhashya -- committing great blunder, bewildered on the path
of spiritual guidance, by not going back home, back to
Godhead.
- Purpose is to guide conditioned student to the same
purpose for which Krishna descends (in a day of Brahma).
- Already spoken to sun-god millions years ago.
- Accept it as it is, without adulteration -- fulfills the mission of
life, otherwise it's offense.
- We have to accept it as it, without adulteration, on
authority of Krishna.
- Greatest offense to interpret without reference to
Krishna's will. To avoid this, must understand as
Arjuna did, that Krishna is Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Such understanding authorized, profittable
for the welfare of human society to fulfill the mission
of life.
- Perfection of life explained, mundane wranglers mislead
innocent people who think material comforts as happiness
- Krishna Consciousness offers perfection of life --
fully explained in Bhagavad-gita. Mundane wranglers
mislead people regarding simple principles of life
(right understanding).
- Everyone should know God is great, living entities
serve Him, otherwise serve illusion in form of three
modes of material nature and perpertually in cycle of
birth and death (even Mayavadis).
- This knowledge is great science -- every living being
has to hear it for its own interest.
- People wrongly think that material comforts bring happiness.
Krishna's external energy very strong, everybody bound to
stringent laws. Living entitiy is happy as part and parcel
of the Lord, as servant of the Lord.
- Central point is to try to satisfy the sense of the Lord,
not our personal sense gratification
- One tries to be happy by personal sense gratification in
different forms -- failure. Right way to satisfy the senses
of the Lord -- highest perfection of life. Central point.
Krishna wants and demands it.
- Krishna Consciousness teaches this by not polluting theme,
take help in studying for practical understanding under direct
Krishna's guidance and derive the greatest benefit.
- Success if only one man becomes a pure devotee.
§0 Introduction
Need for authoritative translation, in the spirit of Bhagavad-gita
where Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Gitopanisad -- essense of all Vedic knowledge.
Why another English edition? No authoritative translation
available, no spirit of the Bhagavad-gita in all translations.
Spirit of Bhagavad-gita in Bhagavad-gita itself.
- Analogy of taking medicine -- follow directions on the label or
by physician, not by our own whim, or by a friend. Same in
Bhagavad-gita, follow the direction of speaker (Krishna), the
Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Confirmed by
acharyas of all four sampradayas.
- Lord also establishes Himself as Supreme Personality of Godhead
in Bhagavad-gita, and in Brahma Samhita, in all puranas, especially
in Srimad Bhagavatam.
Yoga system comes down by disciplic succession, retold again by Krishna
to Arjuna, his intimate friend.
- This yoga system coming down by disciplic succession (sun-god,
Ikshvaku, Manu,...) [Bg4.1-3]. Lost in the course of time, Lord spoke
again on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.
- Lord tells Arjuna supreme secret because he is his friend -- Bhagavad-gita
meant for devotees.
- 3 classes of transcendentalists: impersonalists (jnani), meditators (yogi),
devotees (bhakta).
- Lord wishes to establish another parampara (old broken) in the line of thought
as sun-god's through Arjuna, his intimate friend and devotee.
- Best understood by person who has Arjuna's qualities.
§1 Observing the Armies ...
§2 Contents of Gita Summarized