INTRODUCTION🔗

By now, Arjuna had become desperate. His arguments seemed weak, even to him. Arjuna starts quoting the scriptures of social laws.

To understand what Arjuna said, it is important to understand the origin of the caste tradition in Hindu religion.

At the age of five, a child was given to the care of a spiritual Master by the parents in the ancient Indian education system called gurukul. In the gurukul itself, the science of completion was taught to the child. The child grows up as a complete being. The child's natural aptitudes formed the basis for the caste classification, varṇāśrama. Brāhmaṇas (priests/teachers), kṣatriyas (kings/warriors), vaiśyas (tradesmen) and śūdras (service) are these four classes.

Irrespective of parentage, children were taught the Gāyatri mantra at age seven, which allowed their natural intelligence to blossom. If the Guru found that the child had the natural aptitude to learn the scriptures, he would be trained as a brāhmaṇa. Others were trained to enrich through materially relevant arts and sciences to re-enter the world with a mature and complete personality.

Over time, this caste system was corrupted through human greed. Those who believed that they were doing more responsible work, and therefore were more respected decided to pass on their caste qualification to their children as if it was their birthright. Such a practice had no scriptural sanction

Arjuna's doubts about caste pollution had no scriptural base or merit. What he referred to became the societal norm because of human greed, the collective root patterns of society.

Rites and rituals, as prescribed in the scriptures, are an expression of one's inner completion. Completion is not created by blind practice of rites and rituals. Arjuna voiced the sentiments of organized religion and priesthood, which derive their power and monetary base from such rites and rituals. This is how, in each culture and religion, the power of the priestly class was established, as if they were the sole mediators to God.

The truths expounded in the Gītā are about personal transformation. Each verse of the Gītā is a sūtra, a technique that can work on your being and transform you. That is how Kṛṣṇa brings Arjuna into the space of completion.

Completion is the space and state where you will be totally connected with life and with people in your life in the present moment without any limiting, restraining influence of the past happening in your life.

The essence of the Gītā is living in the space of completion in the present moment. Gītā is about surrendering the past and the future incompletions to the present and experiencing completion.