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Bhagavad Gita Prologue Bhagavad Gita Prologue Thraitha Siddhanta BHAGAVADHGEETHA Indu Dharma Pradata, The Sensational Writer, Adi karta of Traita Doctrine Sri Acharya Prabhodhananda Yogeeswarlu Translation by T. Veeranarayana Reddy B.sc. Published by Indhu Gnana Vedika (Regd. No.168/2004) ww.thraithashakam.org w Bhagavad Gita Prologue BHAGAVAD GITA Prologue Among all living things on earth, man possesses the supreme power and wisdom. By virtue of being greater than others in intellect, he is able to think in every field. But as far as in the spiritual aspects are concerned, the humans are far behind. Let us take a case of a Lawyer for example. He prefers to use his wits to argue on behalf of a client, who is implicated in an unjustified act. The lawyer would not hesitate in presenting his client on the lawful side to save him from punishment. Similarly, even a Physician with his intelligence is able to cure the patient from the dreaded diseases. Even the doctor , who is being able to challenge the new diseases or the Lawyer who is also able to argue and prove the unjustice as justice, but others, who are more matured and more intelligent are still demonstrating their stupidity and are unable to prove their astuteness in the divine matters. The intellect, which prevails in the mundane matters, is ineffective in realizing the Paramatma. Man is able to invent the new doctrines and the new machines, but in the spiritual matters, he could not comprehend the age –old theories and realities. He is totally mistaken in the divine matters and not able to understand why he is not understood the matters of Paramatma as he is known mundane matters completely. As one believes that by becoming literate he can acquire all educational degrees, he thinks that he had perfect realization with the fragment of devotion. However in the present day man’s intellect lacks the required understanding in the spiritual matters. For example two women happened to be walking along the road and three persons happened to be sitting on the roadside. The two women were still about a furlong away from three men. One was a woman and the other was a eunuch. The eunuch wore a sari and other ornaments and possesses features like a woman. So men were not wrong by thinking that both were women. The three men first concluded that those two were woman. One, among the three who was watching the women when they were drawn near had noticed that one of women had some discrepancy in her gait and face and could conclude that she was a eunuch. The other two, who failed to acknowledge the distinction, had said that both of them were women. However, both the women had come much closer. The second person did not express the fact openly, but realized that one of them was a eunuch. So he remained quiet as he had earlier argued to the contrary. Whereas the third person is perhaps not enough intelligent and could not find any difference at all. Though the first person tried to explain, yet the third person completely failed to recognize the differences. He felt that visible form is more important than knowing the difference of gender and hence no deviation was noticed. He argued that the person who wore sari (a garment traditionally is worn by woman in Indian sub-continent) must be a woman. He argued that if a woman was wearing ear rings, bangles and a Mangalsutra (Neck cord) around the neck, she must undoubtedly be a woman and it would be foolish to think otherwise. Though the second person agreed with the views of the first, yet he outwardly has supported the statement of the third. The first person felt that it is better to keep quiet rather than arguing with the other two foolish men. In the same way, there are three categories of people in the world. One category grasps and accepts the truth. The second category does not accept the truth despite they know it. The third category does notww.thraithashakam.org know the truth, but argue that only what they accept is true. The one, who knows the truth in the matters of divine, is one among the millions. Some men agree the truth in their inner heart, butw they do not accept openly. The rest are those, who deny not only truth but also 01 Bhagavad Gita Prologue strongly argue against it. It is only a man in a million who has a strong will, and wants to realize the truth by questioning after truth and finally realizes it in the divine way. Very rarely, a person may exist in the universe, who has realized the truth. We can call him the first person who is treading the path of his goal of truth. The saints, seers and sadhus , who have high regard in society consider themselves religious heads are not in a position to speak the truth, as they are afraid of losing their existing prominence. Hence to conceal the facts and abide by what they say, they simply speak of their untruth discourses. These are the second category of persons who are treading the path of truth. Some others boast that they possess divine knowledge without grasping the truth and would not agree with the views of anyone. This category of people can be classified as the third one. Though those who are walking down along the road are the women, yet they have some physical differences in their bodies. One among the two is of course a woman while other is a eunuch. We cannot call eunuch a woman since he possess masculine organs. Though the external features resemble as a woman, yet in the inner body is different. From the distant view by her appearance and dress, it is concluded that she is woman, but whereas from a close view, if someone fails to distinguish the difference, he can be called a fool. But failing to ascertain the differences even after disrobing and seeing in the nude is no doubt a sheer brutality. Despite the fact that most of the books are look alike, but it can be bifurcated into epics and sciences in accordance with the matter in that books. By going through the contents, a person who is capable of categorizes them into epics and sciences are one type. The second type is one who believes that all books are similar and if one book contains the subject of science the other too would contain the same subject and he argues on that aspect even after knowing the difference. He is the one who strongly believes and stands by his belief till the end. The third one, who believes that all books are identical and argues without ascertain the difference. Despite some others are capable of differentiating the matters between the epics and sciences and describing its differences , some men may initially refused to accept the same . Having realized the truth later, they are unable to leave the epics and still say that both are similar, which ultimately lead to the one path. Those who preach and possess proficiency in mythology assume that the mythologies are just meant for passing of time and not for liberation of karma. Though they are known the fact, if they denounce the value of epics by replacing it with the Shastras, they are feared of losing their appeal and hence they tell about the epics as great. Some others think that the sciences are greater than the epics, but they do not leave the epics for the respect in the society. Let us know about the epics and sciences, which entangled men. If a matter is spoken rather than written, it can be heard only at that particular place and time. However for knowing the matter in the wide spread area, the matter which is preached, must take the form of book so as to remain till the book exists. These types of books are two varieties. They are Puranas (epics) and Shastras (science). Some books were written with fiction and some books were written without any fiction for revealing the information to the future mankind by dictating that man has to walk like this manner. The fictitious imaginations are called the Puranas. But the aim of theme in the Puranas is indeed good for walking men in the good way. As the revealed matter is fictitious so, it could not withstand to the criticism leveled against that matter by the so called Rationalists. There is no statusww.thraithashakam.org to challenge such criticism in the epics. Since the factual knowledge doesn’t exist in the epics, so it lacks the capacity to eliminate karma in mankind. As such, they are deemed to be meant forw passing of time rather than to eliminate karma and called Purana Kalaskhepana 02 Bhagavad Gita Prologue from the previous days. It means the process of wasting time. The experiment of epics for unfolding and educating the new facts to mankind, have failed to provide freedom from karmas. Despite this matter is giving regret to those who are attached completely to the epics, but the epics do not liberate them from karmas. From the age old time, the epics have been nicknamed as traditional nonsense (Pukkidi Puranas). Some people opine that truth originates from the navel, whereas fantasies originate from inside the cheek. Let us look into an aspect here. In a school when the master questioned a child why you had not turned up yesterday, the child said that he had headache and hence he did not turn up.
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