The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 9-1: Swami Krishnananda.
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The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-1
Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-1.
The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:
Swami Krishnananda
(Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti
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Chinmaya Mission:
Br. Kaushik Chaitanya had the privilege of spending two enriching hours in an engaging conversation with B.Tech students at the Engineering College, Lucknow. The session was also graced by the presence of the management faculty, fostering a collaborative atmosphere. The dialogue was dynamic, with both professors and students actively participating and posing thought-provoking questions. The discussions touched upon important themes that resonate with student life, such as dealing with confusion, seeking inspiration, and understanding the significance of friendship during formative years.
During the interaction, Br. Kaushik Chaitanya shared his perspective on how love brings a sense of completeness and fulfillment to life. The students were deeply curious and posed insightful questions such as, "What is love?" and "Whom should we love?" This led to an engaging discussion on the nature of love and attraction, exploring the deeper emotional and philosophical aspects of these experiences. Through these exchanges, he guided the students to reflect on the meaning of love, emphasizing its role in shaping a balanced and meaningful life.
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Yesterday we noticed that our involvements in life determine the extent of reality in which we are also involved at the same time, which practically mean one and the same thing. The response from Bhagavan Sri Krishna came as an appeal to all these involvements, all the levels of connection of the human individual that Arjuna was, which is so dear to each person.
Every one of our involvements is a dear object of ours. If you are involved in something as a part and parcel of your requirement in that given condition of your life in this world, that becomes yourself. It is your kith and kin. It is dear and near, and an appeal to that relation also is a part of the treatment of the human personality. Even in a medical treatment which may be considered as related to the illness of the physical body, there is a necessity for consideration of other involvements of the patient also. The illness of a person need not necessarily mean a physical nonalignment exclusively. It may look like that, but it may have relations with many other things. When a person is ill, that person is ill in every way, not merely in one sense.
So as a good instructor, as a good physician, as a good friend, as a good philosopher, as a well-wisher, as a real benefactor, the Lord's response comes from all sides. There is an appeal to the social sense, which is important; there is an appeal to the physical sense, there is an appeal to the emotional sense, there is an appeal to the rational sense, and then there is at the same time an appeal to the deepest core of everything, the spiritual, the bottom of all things.
As a social individual, it is incumbent on every person to perform that duty which is related to social relation. It becomes an obligation, an unavoidable necessity. It is unavoidable because that relation called social does exist as a reality, and anything that is real is unavoidable. A totally unreal thing may not be your concern, but your social relation is not an unreality. Any person with some common sense will know to what extent each person is social – socially related, socially conditioned, socially dependent – and to that extent there is a debt that one owes to that on which one is dependent, and to those which conditions, to a large extent, even one's own existence. It is one of the principal teachings of the ancient masters, particularly in this country, that every debt has to be discharged. One cannot be a debtor. It is very, very awful to be in that condition. It is no use living by owing something to somebody else. You owe something to that with which you have an inviolable relation, which contributes something, visibly or invisibly, to your welfare and existence, and which decides your existence itself in some measure.
Continued
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