BhagavadGita Śāstras, Stotras, Sūtras🔗

Life will always be a mix of the good and the bad, the Divine and the devil. Choosing one over the other does not help. We need to go beyond both!

◆ Swamiji, you mentioned that the Mahabharata war is a metaphor. Please elaborate.

◆ What is the relationship between enlightenment and personality development?

◆ What is needed to go beyond Drona, Karna and finally Duryodhana?

◆ How do we differentiate between Drona and Sahadeva?

◆ What do Kunti and Draupadi represent?

◆ What are the roles of Vidura and Balarama?

◆ Swamiji, you talked about people who are physically blind and people who see yet are still blinded by ignorance. If a great king like Dhritarashtra could be blinded by his love for his son, how can ordinary mortals be any better?

◆ Is the Mahabharata war a conflict of egos? If so, is there good ego and bad ego?

◆ Swamiji, conches, mantra and astra, all these seem so unreal in this modern age of science and technology. Even the mālā (rosary) with your picture worn by your followers seems to build a cult-like environment. I would like to believe, but much that I have learned is contradictory. Please help me understand.

◆ You say Gita acquires the authority of the scriptures since it is delivered by Krishna, the perfect incarnation, pūrṇāvatār. Other scriptures such as the Veda. were revealed to sages. Is there historical proof that Krishna was God incarnate?

◆ Swamiji, You explained that Duryodhana acted out of blindness and Arjuna from partial awareness. Yet, if Arjuna were to enter the fight and kill his kinsmen, there would be no difference between him and Duryodhana. You yourself pointed out that rights and wrongs are merely our conditioning. Then in what manner is Arjuna better than Duryodhana?

◆ Arjuna was a successful warrior and yet he goes into depression. At least he had a master who could help him. What can others do?

◆ You talked about Arjuna’s dilemma. Was there really a dilemma? Dilemma is when one has choices. In many ways Arjuna had no choice about fighting his cousins. Wasn’t it really fear that caused this confusion?

◆ How does an enlightened person react to the physical environment?

◆ People wonder whether they need to be qualified to be enlightened. Do they need to do good deeds? Do they need to be scholars? Do they need to belong to a particular caste or creed or religion?

◆ How does the tale of a war help us in day-to-day issues? There have been hundreds, if not thousands of wars in the history of mankind, and many have been well documented. These have not stopped other wars. They have not helped mankind learn. How does one expect Bhagavad Gita to transform peoples’ attitudes?