GIST
Leave all duties, actions and functions. Take refuge only in me. I shall deliver you from all sins. Do not grieve.
INTERPRETATION, DEDUCTIONS AND COMMENTS
1. The advice to leave all duties, actions and functions is not proper. A person has to perform his duties, as long as he is physically and mentally capable of discharging them. In fact, many people think that this is the central message of Gita.
2. It is like this: Suppose, Mr. George Bush, the President of US calls every soldier in the American forces and tells him that the soldier should kill everybody in Iraq and that no sin will attach to him. Actually, soldiers, commanders and pilots have to think for themselves and satisfy for themselves that they are discharging a legitimate duty to the Nation. Their role as paid employees does not extend to illegal or unjustifiable wars which a Nation may undertake.
3. The Mahabharata war arose out of a family dispute. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, horses and elephants cannot be killed, to enable the five brothers to get back their kingdom. The doubt raised by Arjuna at the beginning of Gita, had therefore, some validity.
4. This verse is very popular and is commonly quoted.
MSY 66 :
Sarvadharmaan parityajya
Maam eekam s`aran`am vraja
Aham tvaa sarvapaapeebhyoo
Mookshai ishyaami maa s`ucha:
2 comments:
If Arjuna obeys these commands of Krishna, it would have been quite right for him (Arjuna) to leave the battlefield become an ascetic, get hooked (further) on to Krishna and thus attain moksha, since no sin would have stained Arjuna (aham thvaa sarva paapebhyo mokshayishyaami).
I am reminded of some of the present day speakers who won't leave a mike, if offered to them, and end up making a few "same side goals" in their speeches!!
hmm...
May be you do need to read Gita again and understand it from different point of view. I just dont understand your negative view for everything there is...may be you should do something better with your life.
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