The Bhagvad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita is not merely a dialogue that took place in the remote past between two well-known epic characters in the Mahabharata. It is much more than that. It symbolizes the eternal dialogue that goes on in the recesses of every striving soul. God speaks to us as Krishna spoke to Arjuna, if only we tune our ears and try to listen to His voice. Therefore, if every reader of the Gita brings to bear upon its sacred verses his own inward life of fears, doubts and hopes, he will see at once that it is a living dialogue between the human soul and the Divine Spirit. He will then learn to interpret many an apparently technical term used in the Gita in the plenary sense in which it was first employed by the great Teacher. This is especially true of the word Yoga which forms the key to this scripture. Yoga has now technically come to mean thought - control. But the word is used in the Gita in its primary sense of union or fellowship with God.