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Mahābhārat Is The Story Of Your Life ................................IV
Amidst The Warfield Appears The Song Of God............ VII
Introduction To Bhagavad Gītā Decoded.......................... X
Gītā Belongs To The Whole Universe ..............................XIV

Beyond Scriptures ..................................................................... 2
Planet Earth Is A Battlefield ................................................ 25
Ego Needs Support............................................................... 36
The War Begins...................................................................... 42
Arjuna Falters .......................................................................... 47
Intelligence Questions ........................................................... 50
Arjuna's Dilemma.................................................................. 56
Rigors Of Incompletions ...................................................... 64
Good Men Do Not Kill ........................................................ 71

Sāṅkhya Yogaḥ ................................................................83
Drop The Powerlessness And Stand Up ........................... 91
Surrender Is Not Based On Powerlessness .................... 101
We Never Cease To Exist................................................ 105
The Only Reality Is Impermanence............................... 114
You Are Immortal .......................................................... 123
Death Is But A Passage ................................................... 131
Responsibility Of The Kṣatriya ..................................... 137
Experience Matters, Not Knowledge ............................ 143
Act Without Worry About Result ................................ 146
Be Steady With Authenticity In Action ......................... 154
Follow That Complete Man! ......................................... 159
Monkeys In Your Mind................................................... 164
Wake Up!......................................................................... 170

Karma Yogaḥ ................................................................ 175
To Act Or Not To Act.................................................... 180
To Act Is Human Nature ............................................... 192
Selfless Enriching Liberates........................................... 209
Enriching Sacrifice Or Sin.............................................. 218

Acting Without Attachment .................................................... 227
Responsibility, The Space Of Leadership ............................. 231
Role Of The Wise................................................................... 241
Do As I Teach With Authenticity .......................................... 245
Do Your Responsibility .......................................................... 253
Control Your Senses ................................................................ 261

I Taught This Science To Sun .............................................. 268
I Myself Appear, Age After Age .......................................... 279
To Know Me Is To Be Liberated.......................................... 286
Understand And Be Unaffected By Action........................... 300
Action In Inaction And Inaction In Action ........................... 303
Equanimity in Success and Failure....................................... 310
Know Sacrifice And Be Purified .......................................... 322
You Are No Sinner .............................................................. 325
Self-Doubt Destroys ............................................................. 330

Action Or Renunciation ....................................................... 345
Devotion Above Action ......................................................... 363
Controlling The Mind ........................................................... 375

Cleansing Ignorance With Knowledge ................................ 384
The Dog And The Dog-Eater ............................................. 390
The Path To Self Realization.............................................. 399
Know Me And Be In Bliss ................................................. 409

Attain The State Of Yoga.................................................... 419
Are You Your Friend Or Your Enemy?............................... 432
Bring Integrity To Control The Senses.............................. 450
Neither Too Much Nor Too Little...................................... 455
Self Is Satisfied In The Self By The Self............................ 463
Be In The Self And See The Supreme ................................ 467
Controlling The Wavering Mind ...................................... 475
Where Do I Go Without Yoga? ......................................... 482
Rare Birth Of A Yogi .......................................................... 486
Become A Yogi.................................................................. 490

One In A Billion Reaches Me ............................................ 503
I Am The Thread! ............................................................. 511
I Am Eternal...................................................................... 516
Four Pious Men ................................................................ 521

I Am In Your Heart .................................................................... 541
No One Knows Me.................................................................... 555
No Sin, No Virtue....................................................................... 562

Akṣarabrahma Yogaḥ...........................................................570
Knowing Him At The Time Of Death..................................... 572
Your Last Memory Follows You In Next Birth..................... 580
Be Sure To Reach Me ................................................................ 498
Remember Me Constantly ....................................................... 608
Brahma's Day And Night ......................................................... 613
My Supreme Abode................................................................... 623
Passing In Light .......................................................................... 628
Be Fixed In Devotion ................................................................ 632

Rājavidyā Rājaguhya Yogaḥ ..................................................635
Eternal, Easy And Joyfully Done ............................................. 637
All Rest In Me ............................................................................ 652
How To Be Unattached............................................................ 663
Worship Me In Any Form But With Devotion ..................... 675
I Am Immortality And Death!.................................................. 680
Reside In Me, I Give And Preserve......................................... 684
Life After Life ............................................................................. 697

Your Familiar Form ............................................................................ 847
Only You Have Seen This Form ..................................................... 849
Only In This Way Can You Reach Me ............................................ 851

Bhakti Yogaḥ ....................................................................................... 857
Who is Perfect? ................................................................................ 862
Fix Your Mind On Me ................................................................... 866
They Too Attain Me ..................................................................... 872
Formless Is Difficult ...................................................................... 875
Freedom From Birth And Death ................................................. 878
Live In Me Always ......................................................................... 880
Practice To Perfection ................................................................... 889
Work For Me .................................................................................. 898
Attain Peace .................................................................................... 896
He Is Very Dear To Me ................................................................ 906
Be Unaffected ................................................................................. 912
Selfless In Action ............................................................................ 916
Beyond Love And Hate ................................................................. 918
This Is Whom I Love ..................................................................... 920

Kṣetra Kṣetrajña Vibhāga Yogaḥ .................................................. 923
What You Know Is Not You ....................................................... 928

Consciousness And Conscience ........................................ 942
Inner Science Technology ................................................ 947
Consciousness Is Eternal .................................................. 953
Understanding The Energy .............................................. 967
Many People, Many Paths ................................................ 977
We Are Brahman ............................................................. 985
Soul Situated In Body Does Nothing ................................. 994

Why Kṛṣṇa Repeats ........................................................ 1010
Natural Attributes, Guṇas ............................................. 1021
Guarding The Senses ....................................................... 1047
The Depression Of Success .............................................. 1053
Where Do We Go From Here ......................................... 1059
Going Beyond The Guṇas ............................................... 1062
Expression Of The Divine ............................................... 1065

Journey Into The Causal Body ........................................ 1080
Cutting Down The Tree ................................................. 1089
Completion And Creation Techniques ............................ 1092
Mind Is The Conditioning .............................................. 1100

You Are Your Saṃskāras .................................................... 1104
Awareness Not Achievement ............................................. 1111
From Me Comes Memory And Knowledge ....................... 1116
Collective Consciousness ................................................... 1121

Daivāsura Saṃpad Vibhāga Yogaḥ ............................ 1129
Qualifications Of Divinity ................................................. 1136
You Are A Demon If... ..................................................... 1144
How To Save Our Planet? ................................................ 1158
How To Save Ourselves? ................................................. 1162
Sensory Traps ................................................................... 1166
Cast Into Suffering ............................................................ 1169
Of Gold And Women ........................................................ 1174

Śraddhatraya Vibhāga Yogaḥ ...................................... 1179
Way To Worship .............................................................. 1194
Don't Torture Me ............................................................ 1196
Trust And Practice Authenticity ....................................... 1203
We Are What We Eat ...................................................... 1211
Enriching Without Expectation ....................................... 1217
Austerity Of Deeds, Words And Thoughts ...................... 1220
How To Give? ................................................................... 1228

Chapter 3: Karma Yogaḥ ................................................ 1389
Chapter 4: Jñānakarmasannyāsa Yogaḥ ......................... 1407
Chapter 5: Sannyāsa Yogaḥ .............................................. 1425
Chapter 6: Dhyāna Yogaḥ ................................................ 1438
Chapter 7: Jñānavijñāna Yogaḥ ....................................... 1458
Chapter 8: Akṣarabrahma Yogaḥ .................................... 1472
Chapter 9: Rājavidyā Rājaguhya Yogaḥ .......................... 1486
Chapter 10: Vibhūti Yogaḥ ............................................... 1501
Chapter 11: Viśvarūpa Darśan Yogaḥ .............................. 1518
Chapter 12: Bhakti Yogaḥ ................................................. 1549
Chapter 13: Kṣetra Kṣetrajña Vibhāga Yogaḥ .............. 1558
Chapter 14: Guṇatraya Vibhāga Yogaḥ ............................ 1574
Chapter 15: Puruṣottama Yogaḥ ...................................... 1587
Chapter 16: Daivāsura Sampad Vibhāga Yogaḥ ........ 1597
Chapter 17: Śraddhatraya Vibhāga Yogaḥ .................... 1608
Chapter 18: Mokṣa Sannyāsa Yogaḥ ............................... 1621

Scientific Research on Bhagavad Gītā ................................ 1657
Kuru Family Tree ................................................................. 1659
Key Characters in Bhagavad Gītā ...................................... 1661
Saṃskṛit Pronunciation Guide .......................................... 1666
Glossary ............................................................................... 1671
About His Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda ......... 1719

'I salute unto you Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa,
Guru (master) of the world,
son of Vasudeva, supreme bliss of Devakī,
destroyer of Kaṁsa and Cāṇūra'

Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā is the ultimate sacred scripture of yoga,
Yogaśastra and the pristine glory of the Vedic culture, the eternal
living tradition called sanātana-dharma. It belongs to the whole
Universe for it is delivered to the Universe by the source and embodiment
of Universe. We salute and bow down to Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who spoke
the Bhagavad Gītā out of His infinite love and compassion for all beings.

Whenever unrighteousness, adharma becomes predominant and
dharma, righteous living declines and the Yoga of Enlightenment is lost,
Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Consciousness appears again and again
to revive this sacred yoga, to protect and to enrich the devoted beings; and
destroys adharma to re-establish the pure and everlasting dharma—the
Science of Enlightenment. dharma saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge
yuge—this is Śrī Kṛṣṇa's promise and the essence and spirit of the Gītā.

Gītā is also called Brahmavidyā—the Knowledge of Brahman,
the supreme absolute truth; it is Jīvan Mukti Vijñāna—the Science of

Living Enlightenment. As with all scriptures, it is the knowledge and
experience that is transmitted verbally as Śrī Kṛṣṇārjuna Saṁvād, an
intimate dialogue between Master of the world, Jagadguru Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
and His dear devotee and disciple, Arjuna. It is called śruti in Saṁskṛit,
meaning something that is heard.

Gītā, as Bhagavad Gītā is generally called, translates literally from
Saṁskṛit as ‘Sacred Song of God’. Unlike the Vedas and Upaniṣads,
which are stand alone expressions of Truth, the Gītā is written into the
greatest Hindu epic, the Mahābhārat, called a purāṇa, an ancient historical
happening. It is part of the recorded history of the greatest tradition,
the paramount civilization in all its Divine grandeur and its human
complexity, so to speak.

As a scripture, Gītā is Gītāśastra, the essence and the most
important part of the ancient knowledge base of the Vedic tradition,
which is the expression of the experiences of great sages. Vedas and
Upaniṣads, the foundation of śruti literature, arose from the insight,
vision and the consciousness of completion of these great sages when
they were raised into a no-mind state of Advaita (non-duality). These are
as old as humanity, as eternal as truth, and the first and truest expressions
in the journey of man’s search for truth.

Unlike the Vedas, which were revealed to the great Sages or the
Upaniṣads, which were the teachings of these great Enlightened
Eages, Gītā is part of the great Bhārata’s (India’s) history narrated by
Śrī Veda Vyāsa or Śrī Kṛṣṇa Dvāipāyana Vyāsa, one of the great
Enlightened Sages and the compiler of all scriptures and hymns.
Gītā is scribed by Śrī Gaṇeṣa, the elephant God who embodies pure
wisdom and joyful spontaneity. It is narrated as the direct expression of
the Divine Himself. It is because of Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s direct presence
that the Mahābhārat and jeweled in it, the Bhagavad Gītā is the indisput-
able authority of the greatest revelation of Truth. The Gītā is the sacred
text incarnation of the Absolute Divine.

No other epic or part of an epic has the special status and space
of the Gītā. No other book but the Gītā gives a scientific, systematic,
applied science of living joyfully in completion, while empowering the
human action-field with authenticity to evolve into a responsible Divine
play-field.

Called the royal supreme knowledge and the royal secret of secrets—
rājavidyā rājaguhyaṁ (9.2), this one sacred book conveys the essence of
knowledge contained in all written and oral vedic truths to enrich the
simplest to complex humans at all planes. It holds within itself the di-
rect key to every possible human enquiry, the solution to every dilemma
of emotions, and the sublime righteous path and goal of every quest of
rising or falling civilizations for every age, time or geography. As a con-
sequence of the presence of the Gītā, the Mahābhārat epic itself is consid-
ered a sacred Hindu scripture.

Gītā arose from the super consciousness of Śri Kṛṣṇa, the
Supreme God, the complete Incarnation Purṇāvatār, and is therefore
considered Gītāśastra—the essential scripture, knowing which, one
is liberated from all incompletions, yaj jñātvā mokṣyase asubhāt (9.1)
and Gītopaniṣad—the essence of all Upaniṣads, the purest and highest
knowledge to be ever known and cognized because it gives the
direct experience of the Self— pavitram idam uttamam pratyakṣāvagaṁ
dharmyaṁ (9.2).

Mahābhārat, literally meaning the great Bhārata, is a grand narration
about the nation and civilization, which is now known as India. It was
then a nation ruled by king Bhārata and his descendants.

‘O Scion of Bharat race, whatever dharma (righteous-
ness), artha (economic growth), kāma (pleasure) and
mokṣa (liberation) exist in this text is found elsewhere,
but what is not found in this text does not exist elsewhere.’

Look into your life! Your whole life is nothing but the Mahābhārat
War. The Mahābhārat should be read again and again to understand the
intricacies of life, the complications of life, and the ability to handle life.

The true story of this perfectly recorded epic is about two warring
clans, Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas, closely related to one another. Dhṛtarāṣṭra,
the blind king of Hastināpur and father of the 100 Kaurava brothers was
the brother of Pāṇḍu, whose children were the five Pāṇḍava princes. It
is a tale of strife between cousins and ultimately between dhārmic and
adhārmic, righteous and unrighteous civilizations.

Since Dhṛtarāṣṭra was blind, Pāṇḍu was made the king of
Hastināpura. Pāṇḍu was cursed by a sage that he would die if he ever
entered into a physical relationship with his wives. He therefore had
no children. Vyāsa says that all the five Pāṇḍava children were born to
their mothers Kuntī and Mādri through the blessing of divine beings.
Pāṇḍu handed over the kingdom and his children to his blind brother

Kuntī, who is the embodiment of tapas, spiritual penance, had
received a boon when she was still a young unmarried adolescent, that
she could summon any divine power at will to father a child. Before she
married, she tested her boon. The Sun god, Sūrya appeared before her.
Karṇa was born to her as a result. In fear of social reprisals, she cast the
newborn away in a river. Yudhiṣṭra, Bhīma and Arjuna were born to Kuntī
after her marriage by invocation of her powers, and the twins Nakula and
Sahadeva were born to Mādrī, the second wife of Pāṇḍu.

Yudhiṣṭra was born to Kuntī as a result of her being blessed by
Yama, the god of death, dharma and justice, Bhīma by Vāyu, the god
of wind, and Arjuna by Indra, god of all the divine beings. Nakula and
Sahadeva, the youngest Pāṇḍava twins, were born to Mādrī, through the
Divine Aśvini twins.

Dhṛtarāṣṭra had a hundred sons through his wife Gāndhārī. The
eldest of these Kaurava princes was Duryodhana. Duryodhana felt no
love for his five Pāṇḍava cousins. He made many unsuccessful attempts,
along with his brother Duśśāsana, to kill the Pāṇḍava brothers. Kuntī's
eldest son Karṇa, whom she had cast away at birth, was found and brought
up by a chariot driver in the palace, and by a strange twist of fate, joined
hands with Duryodhana.

Dhṛtarāṣṭra gave Yudhiṣṭra one half of the Kuru kingdom on his
coming of age, since the Pāṇḍava prince was the rightful heir to the
throne that his father Pāṇḍu had vacated. Yudhiṣṭra ruled from his new
capital Indraprastha, along with his brothers Bhīma, Arjuna, Nakula and
Sahadeva. Arjuna won the hand of princess Draupadī, daughter of the
king of Pāñcāla, in a svayaṁvara, a marital contest in which princes
fought for the hand of a fair damsel. In fulfillment of their mother Kuntī’s
desire that the brothers share everything equally, Draupadī became the
wife of all five Pāṇḍava brothers.

Duryodhana persuaded Yudhiṣṭra to join a gambling session, where
his cunning uncle Śakunī defeated the Pāṇḍava king. Yudhiṣṭra lost

all that he owned—his kingdom, his brothers, his wife and himself, to
Duryodhana. Duśśāsana shamed Draupadī in public by trying to disrobe
her. The Pāṇḍava brothers and Draupadī were forced to go into exile for
fourteen years, with the condition that in the last year they should live
incognito or ajyāta vāsa.

At the end of the fourteen years, the Pāṇḍava brothers tried to
reclaim their kingdom. In this effort they were helped by Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the
king of the Yādava clan, who is the eighth divine incarnation of Lord
Viṣṇu. However, Duryodhana refused to yield even a needlepoint of land,
and as a result, the Great War, the War of Mahābhārat ensued. In this war,
various rulers of the entire nation that is modern India aligned with one
or the other of these two clans, the Kauravas or the Pāṇḍavas.

Kṛṣṇa offered to join with either of the two clans. He says, ‘One of
you may have Me unarmed. I will not take any part in the battle. The
other may have my entire Yādava army.’ When the offer was first made
to Duryodhana, he predictably chose the large and well-armed Yādava
army, Nārāyaṇī Senā, in preference to the unarmed Kṛṣṇa. Arjuna joy-
fully and gratefully chose his dearest friend, his life mentor and his Guru,
Kṛṣṇa, Nārāyaṇa, to be his unarmed charioteer!

‘Oṁ, I meditate upon you, Bhagavad Gītā,
the affectionate Divine Mother,
showering the nectar of advaita, non-duality and
destroying rebirth, incorporated into the midst of
Mahābhārat of eighteen chapters by sage Vyāsa, the
author of the purāṇas and imparted to Arjuna by
Bhagavān Nārāyaṇa, Himself.’

Bhagavad Gītā appears in the heart of Mahābhārat in Bhīṣma
Parva, the sixth chapter of its eighteen chapters. Veda Vyāsa, the narrator,
in glorifying the Gītā sings, ‘the one who drinks the water of Ganges (the
sacred river for Hindus) attains liberation, what to speak of the one who
drinks the nectar of Gītā? Gītā is the essential nectar of the Mahābhārat,
bhāratamr̥ta sarvasvam as it is directly spoken by Nārāyaṇa, Bhagavān
Kr̥ṣṇa Himself.’

The armies assembled in the vast field of Kurukṣetra, now in the state
of Haryana in modern day India. All the kings and princes were related to
one another, and were often on opposite sides. Facing the Kaurava army
and his friends, relatives and teachers, Arjuna was overcome by remorse
and guilt, and wanted to walk away from the battle out of total powerless-
ness unbecoming an invincible warrior among warriors.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s dialogue with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra
out of His utmost concern and love for him and humanity is the
content of Bhagavad Gītā. Of its seven hundred and forty-five (745)
verses, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa sings the Gītā in six hundred and twenty (620)
verses responding to Arjuna’s fifty-seven (57) enquiries. Śrī Kṛṣṇa per-
suades Arjuna to give-up his powerlessness unfitting an Ārya—the spir-
itually evolved one who understands human life and urges him to raise
himself again as Parantapa—the conqueror of enemy, and take up arms
and vanquish his enemies.

‘They are already dead,’ says Śrī Kṛṣṇa, ‘All those who are facing you
have been already killed by Me. Go ahead and do what you have to do.
That is your responsibility. Do not worry about the outcome. Leave that
to Me.’

Gītā is the ultimate practical teaching on the inner science of
spirituality that expresses as outer victory and success in life now and
after. It is not, as some scholars incorrectly claim, a promotion of violence.
It is about the impermanence of the mind and body, and the need to go
beyond the mind, ego and logic.

Being blind with self-doubt, king Dhṛtarāṣṭra does not participate in
the war. His minister Sañjaya uses his power of clairvoyance bestowed
by Veda Vyāsa to ‘see’ and relate to king Dhṛtarāṣṭra the goings on the
battlefield. It is in Sañjaya’s voice that we hear Gītā, the dialogue between
Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna.

All the Kaurava princes as well as all their commanders such as Bhīṣ-
ma, Droṇa and Karṇa were killed in battle. The five Pāṇḍava brothers sur-
vived as winners and became the rulers of the combined kingdom.

This dialogue sung between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna is a dialogue
between man and God or Nara and Nārāyaṇa as they are called in
Saṃskṛit.

Arjuna’s questions and doubts are those of each one of us. Nara
Arjuna is the leader, the embodiment of responsibility representing

the whole humanity that is burdened with the sufferings born from
self-doubt, self-hatred and self-denial of its innate natural state of
liberation, mokṣa. Only Nārāyaṇa as Śrī Kṛṣṇa can sport a divine smile on
His face and sing the nectars of Advaita—space of infinity (non-duality)
and Sāṅkhya Yoga—knowledge of completion in the midst of the waging
world war.

Only Bhagavān, one possessed with infinite powers, infinite
knowledge, infinite renunciation, and infinite riches, fame and beauty
can declare the imperishable and eternal nature of the Self; and also give
the direct experience of the Self to Arjuna in Viśvarūpa Darśan Yoga and
culminate it with Mokṣa Sannyāsa Yoga—the yoga of liberation.

The answers of the Divine, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, transcend time and space. Śrī
Kṛṣṇa’s message is everlasting and joyfully performed, and is as valid
today as it was on that fateful battlefield over five thousand years ago. The
science of Gītā is the eternal technique of living in completion; the song
of Gītā is the eternal life-enriching nectar, having no expiry date, time or
age!