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GEETHA VAHINI 134, Anantapur District, A.P Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust Prasanthi Nilayam P.O. 515 GEETHA VAHINI 134, Anantapur District, A.P. (India.). (The Divine Gospel) All Rights Reserved The copyright and the rights of translation in any language are reserved by the Publishers. No part, passage, text or photograph or Artwork of this book should be reproduced, transmitted or utilised, in original language or by translation, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo copying, recording or by any information, storage and retrieval system except with the express and prior permission, in writing from the Convener, Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam (Andhra Pradesh) India - Pin Code 515 134, except for brief passages quoted in book review. This book can be exported from India only by the Publishers by - Sri Sathya Sai Books and Publications Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam (India). Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba International Standard Book Number: 81-7208-302-5 First Enlarged Edition: June 2002 Price Rs. PRASANTHI NILAYAM Published by: The Convener, Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publications Trust Prasanthi Nilayam, India - Pin Code 515 134 SRI SATHYA SAI BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS TRUST STD: 08555 ISD: 0091-8555 Grams: BOOKTRUST Prasanthi Nilayam - 515 134 Telephone: 87375 Fax: 87236 Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Grams: BOOK TRUST STD: 08555 ISD: 91-8555 Printed at: Omkar Offset Printers, Phone: 87375 Fax: 87236 No. 3/4, 1 Main, N.T. Pet, Bangalore - 560 002. path of Sathya, asphalted by Dharma and illumined by Prema towards the goal of Shanthi. Arjuna accepted Him in that role, let us do likewise. When worldly attachment hinders the path of duty, when ambition blinds the eyes of sympathy, when hate shuts out the call of Love, let us listen to the Geetha. He teaches us from the chariot whereon He is installed. Then He showers His Grace, His Vision and His Power, and we are made heroes fit to fight and win. GREETINGS This precious book is not a commentary or summary of the Geetha that was taught on the field of Kurukshetra. We need not learn any new language or read any old text to imbibe the lesson that the Lord is eager to teach us now, for hagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the Sanathana victory in the battle we are now waging. This Geetha Vahini Sarathi, the Timeless Charioteer, who is the same stream, refreshing and revitalising, brought by Bcommunicated the Geetha Sastra to Adithya the same Divine Restorer to revivify man caught in the mesh and helped Manu and King Ikshvaku to know it. He was the of modern dialectics, in the pride of modern science, in the charioteer of Arjuna during the great battle between Good cynical scorn of modern superficiality. The teaching here and Evil fought out at Kurukshetra. When the rider, Arjuna, set forth will comfort, console, and confer strength and was overcome with grief at the prospect of the fight, Krishna faith. instructed him in the science of recognising one’s Oneness with all, and removed the grief and the fear. Let us listen to these words with as much care and concentration as Arjuna had, even in the turmoil of a battlefield, and we too will declare when the book nears its He is the charioteer even now, for every one of us; let final pages, “My delusion is dissolved. I have become aware me greet you as a fellow-sufferer and a fellow-disciple. We of My Reality, which is God.” have but to recognise Him and accept Him in that role, holding the reins of discrimination and flourishing the whip The Ancient Charioteer who is in you and me has of detachment, to direct the horses of the senses along the responded to the call of the conflict-ridden hearts. He gave these lessons in the “Sanathana Sarathi” that is published CONTENTS from the Prasanthi Nilayam. Now, they are with you, between covers, as a Book, which you can read as often as you can 01. Chapter - I nn1 or must. 02. Chapter - II nn13 03. Chapter - III nn21 May the faith with which you have started to scan 04. Chapter - IV nn33 these pages grow from day to day. May you be drawn by 05. Chapter - V nn45 the ever widening vista of knowledge which this book reveals 06. Chapter - VI nn55 to the grand Glory of the experience of the Oneness, which 07. Chapter - VII nn65 is the basis of this Manifoldness. 08. Chapter - VIII nn75 09. Chapter - IX 7 8 87 N. Kasturi 10. Chapter - X nn97 11. Chapter - XI nn107 12. Chapter - XII nn121 13. Chapter - XIII nn133 14. Chapter - XIV nn145 15. Chapter - XV nn157 16. Chapter - XVI nn169 17. Chapter - XVII nn181 18. Chapter - XVIII nn193 19. Chapter - XIX nn203 20. Chapter - XX nn213 21. Chapter - XXI nn223 22. Chapter - XXII nn233 23. Chapter - XXIII nn243 24. Chapter - XXIV nn255 25. Chapter - XXV nn261 26. Chapter - XXVI nn269 27. Chapter - XXVII nn279 Geetha Vahini 2 Geetha Vahini The Geetha is a text for spiritual practitioners, for it emphasises sadhana (spiritual discipline), and spiritual attitudes, more than anything else. Every chapter lays down means and methods of reaching the goal of peace and harmony. Now sadhana is the product of keen and steady yearning for progress. The aspirant must aspire, not despair. He must persevere, not clamour for quick success. The Geetha is as a boat, which takes man across from the self- imposed state of bondage to the freedom which is his nature. He is taken from darkness to Light, from lustrelessness to CHAPTER I Splendour. The Geetha ordains for man disciplines and duties which are free from the taints of Vasanas (tendencies o understand the meaning of the Geetha, the and impulses) that tie him to the relentless wheel of birth reverential approach is necessary. You must and death. T take up its study in an attitude of submission and expectancy. For the Geetha is the “milk” of the Really speaking, man has come into this Karmakshetra Upanishads, “drawn” by the Cowherd Krishna with the help (Field of Activity) only to engage himself in activity, not in of Arjuna, “the calf,” for all the “dull-witted” to drink and order to earn the fruit of such activity. That is the teaching draw sustenance from. There are some who argue that the of the Geetha, its fundamental lesson. The Geetha is the Geetha as a sacred poem was a creation later than the quintessence of the meaning of all the Vedas, Yajnas and Mahabharatha, of which it is a part; but whatever may be Yagas (offerings for the glory of God). The outward-directed said of the composition of the Geetha, there is no doubt activities are mentioned in the preliminary portions of the Vedas. Activities of the mind, like the Upasanas, which are that the principles and teachings of the Geetha are ancient, directed inward are mentioned later. Jnana Yoga too is nay, dateless. In the first three slokas of the fourth chapter, expounded to minds thus clarified and purified. reference is made to the Lord instructing the Geetha to Surya (Sun) first and later to Manu; and to the fact that from Manu Whoever the individual, however scholarly, he cannot it reached Ikshvaku and thence to others in succession! So escape delusion and so he is subjected to grief, which acts the Geetha is beyond the category of time and it cannot be as a brake upon activity. Arjuna, the great hero, capable of assigned to a particular point of time, past or present. great renunciation, and of great wisdom, is deluded by the Geetha Vahini 34 Geetha Vahini awful needs of war and his grief handicaps his activity too. Arjuna is the Jivi, the individual. The Body is the He confuses the body and the self, he starts identifying the Chariot and the Teacher in the Chariot is Krishna, the Lord. two. He imposes on the Atma (ever untouched by the The Charioteer is the Lord, the Inspirer of the Intelligence, characteristics of the moving, changing world) the unreal the Brahman which prompts It in answer to man’s prayer and ephemeral nature of the world and takes this delusion contained in the Gayathri Manthra “Dhiyoyonah as true. He believes that his duties, as laid down by that prachodayath…” (Awaken my Discrimination, O Lord and false identification, are his Atma-dharma! This is the tragedy guide me). The Kauravas represent the demonic nature. The not of Arjuna alone but of all humanity! Therefore, the Geetha Pandavas represent the Divine. They are Asat, these are is of universal and eternal value. To study the Geetha is to Sat; one is evil, the other is good. And there has ever been learn the art of swimming across the sea of Delusion. The a struggle between the two. In this conflict between opposing Geetha is the very Voice of Lord Krishna. The fact that it forces, Krishna (the Self, the Atma) is ever on the side of has provided consolation and liberation to millions of men Dharma—the Reality which sustains, not the Delusion which is evidence of its Divine Origin. A lesser person could not undermines. If you seek to have the Lord on your side, as have given it that authenticity. your Guide, equip yourself with the Divine Nature, (Daivi Sampath), the qualities of Dharma. For the Lord is where The way it begins and the way it ends, that gives the Dharma is. clue to the subject which it expounds. The very first verse Of course, this does not mean that the Lord is not starts with the words.
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