Bhagvad Gita Rahasya or Karmayoga Shastra VOL 02

SR No.: 011090
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bhalchandra S Sukhtankar
Publisher: R B Tilak Puna
Publication Year: 1936
Total Pages: 767
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 74 MB

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CONTINUITY OF CHAPTERS OF THE GĪTĀ.
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is the case with the Gitā. Whatever it may contain, the Karma-Yoga ultimately remains the principal subject matter of the Gītā. But, though the Karma-Yoga is thus the principal subject of the Gītā, yet, as the essence of the philosophy of Release has been beautifully described in it. side by side with the Philosophy of Action, the Blessed Lord has said to Arjuna, in the beginning of the Anugītā, that this Gītā religion, which was propounded to enable him to properly discriminate between the Doable and the Not-Doable is fully competent to place the Brahman within one's reach"sa hi harmah suparyāpto brahmanah padavedane" (Ma. Bhā. Ašva. 16. 12); and that those who follow this path do not need any other arduous worship for attaining Release I fully realise that this statement will not be appreciated by people who advocate the Path of Renunciation and who maintain that Release is impossible unless all Action is abandoned; but there is no help for that. Not only does the Gītā not support the Path of Samnyāsa or any other path of renunciation, but, I will go further and say that the Gītā has been preached in order to satisfactorily explain, from the point of view of the Knowledge of the Brahman, why Action should not be abandoned even after the Acquisition of Knowledge. Therefore, the followers of the Path of Renunciation must remain satisfied with the numerous Vedic treatises which support the Path of Samnyāsa, instead of attempting to foist Samnyāsa on the Gitā. Or, just as the Blessed Lord has without pride referred to the Path of Renunciation in the Gītā as leading to Release, so also and with the same equable frame of mind, should the followers of Sāmkhya philosophy say: "as the Parameśvara intends the world to go on, and as He from time to time takes incarnations for that purpose, the Path of carrying on the activities of worldly life, with a desireless frame of mind, even after the Acquisition of Knowledge, which has been preached by the Blessed Lord in the Gitā, is the most proper path to be followed in the Kali-yuga".