मन्मना भव मद्भक्तो मद्याजी मां नमस्कुरु |मामेवैष्यसि सत्यं ते प्रतिजाने प्रियोऽसि मे || 65|| man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskurumām evaiṣhyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo ‘si me Thinking of Me, being devoted to Me, worshiping Me and leaning towards (or bowing to) Me, you will surely come to Me. I promise you this because you…
The Gita spends a considerable amount of time – the entire first chapter – ‘setting the scene’. Notably, this is in contrast to other important scriptures of similar gravitas like the Brahma Sutras or the Yoga Sutras which begin with rather abrupt statements announcing that the topic of the text will now be discussed; or the Upanishads which again, don’t consider it important to describe context or background.
In my view, the Gita deliberately takes pains to draw attention to the example and metaphor of battle, to later, show the opposite of it or the transcendence of it and expatiate on the attainment of absolute peace.
Sanatana Dharma means the eternal law which is the basis of Existence itself. It is not something conjured up by the mind of a human being, but is the way that the cosmos functions. To be in tune with that movement and functioning is to follow Sanatana Dharma. To achieve this, myriads of methods and paths arose in Bharat and still exist today, reflecting the fact that each individual is unique, the way he seeks is unique and the way he perceives what he finds is also unique.
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