About Gita Acharan

Bhagavad Gita is a conversation between Lord Krishna and Warrior Arjun. The Gita is Lord's guidance to humanity to be joyful and attain moksha (salvation) which is the ultimate freedom from all the polarities of the physical world. He shows many paths which can be adopted based on one's nature and conditioning.

This website is an attempt to interpret the Gita using the context of present times. Siva Prasad is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. This website is the result of understanding the Gita by observing self and lives of people for more than 25 years, being in public life.

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We tend to assign one of three labels to a situation, a person or an outcome of a deed: good, bad or no label. Krishna refers to this third state and says (2.57) that a wise person is one who isn't filled with joy when coming across good nor does he hate bad and is always without attachment. This implies that the 𝙨𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙖 (one with coherent intellect) drops labelling(2.50) and takes facts as facts without any extrapolation, which is the birthplace for polarities of pain and pleasure.

Quote From Bhagavad Gita

"We would incur no sin when we perform any karma (deed/action) if we were to treat sukh (pleasure) and dukh (pain); labh (gain) and nasht (losses); and jaya (victory) and apajaya (defeat) with equipoise." - Verse- 2.38

Glimpses

Aversion is also an attachment

Balanced Decision making

We all make several decisions for ourselves, our family and society based on a variety of factors. Krishna exhorts us to take this decision making to the next level

Raag (attachment), Bhay(fear) and Krodh (anger)

Krishna says (2.56) that Sthithpragna is one who is neither excited by sukh(pleasure) nor agitated by dukh(pain), is free from raag(attachment), bhay(fear) and krodh(anger).

Sthithpragna (stoic) is internal phenomenon

Krishna says (2.54), in response to Arjun's query, sthithpragna (one with coherent intellect) is contented with self. Interestingly, Krishna didn't respond to the second part of Arjun's query as to how a sthithpragna speaks, sits and walks.

Contentment with the self

Lord Krishna reveals what is pure sankhya (awareness) from verse 2.11 to 2.53, which was completely new territory for Arjun.

What is ours and what is not

Krishna says (2.52) that when we cross moha-kalilam (darkness of delusion) using intellect, we become indifferent to what is being heard or will be heard."

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