Bhagavad
Gita—Your Religious Right!
The Bhagavad Gita, often considered the Hindu bible, is actually
a poem composed between the 2nd century BC and the 2nd
century AD. It presents as a dialogue between the warrior prince Arjuna and his
divine charioteer Krishna. It stresses the importance of doing one’s duty and
faith in God.
As a young Christian adult, I was taught to stay away from
books such as these, because they were inspired by Satan. As I saw what Ralph
Waldo Emerson, one of my favorite writers, says of the Gita, I wondered about
the influence of my judgmental past: “It was the first of books. It was as if
an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent.
The voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had
pondered, and thus disposed of the same questions that exercise us.”
Henry David Thoreau wrote a quote of the Gita, as well: In
the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal… in
comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and
trivial.”
So, as I had seen that Thoreau and Emerson thought this a
worthy piece of divine literature, I began to immerse myself in some of its
pages. Though rife with terms and names unpronounceable to my western lips, I
find strings of hopeful messages, especially connected to the ancient yoga
practice that has changed my way of life.
Today I read from Chapter 3, Text 1 on Karma-Yoga.
Karma-yoga is one of the four paths of realization. It is, in its very basic
form, putting your spirit self in action! In other words, finding good works
for your soul. Karma-yoga can be something as simple as going behind your
entire yoga class and cleaning up the mats and blankets—refolding and
straightening in a meticulous manner. It could be getting the mail for an
elderly couple next door, or pulling the garbage out to the street for a
physically challenged adult.
Yesterday, I talked about listening to your body. What of
your soul? Does your soul and mind thirst for knowledge of a new kind? Can you
find that knowledge in the source that, perhaps, wounded you as a child? I am
letting go of what I was taught by people and priests and teachers. I want to
let Spirit guide my soul to divinity, wherever that may take me.
I do recognize, however, that this soul search has sometimes
taken me to hell and back, but as Jesus also visited hell before the ascension,
I feel in good company. I haven’t
as yet said that I am not a Christian, but when compared with the bias and
fractious Christian communities around me, I am certainly not that or want to
be that. I desire to find a home in perfect peace and God love. Meditation has
definitely precluded all of my studies. But in the quietness of divine love, I
have been led to study many different scriptures and books of wisdom.
In everything that I read, I throw away that which doesn’t
serve me and take to heart that which moves me forward. I would suggest the
same for anyone on a spiritual path.
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