The Bhagavad Gita - A Summary (13 minutes talk and 30 mins meditation)

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Of all the ancient texts that I have read, the setting of the Bhagavad-Gita is the most magical. Chariots and Battle Elephants stand face to face, a few hundred yards from each other like two walls stretching in both directions, as far as the eye can see. The elephants and chariots carry warriors bristling with weapons, spears, swords, knives and bows. Their shields glisten in the sun as they await the orders to engage. This is the great decisive battle of the ancient Indian war to end all wars. A battle between the armies of two great dynasties led by brothers, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, during which all the combatants will die. Into the no man’s land between the two great armies drives a chariot. Unknown to the warrior in it, Arjuna, a prince of the Pandavas, the chariot driver is Krishna, the incarnation of the spirit of the universe in human form. Krishna represents all of reality, all life and all of nature. We can, as secular modern readers, view Krishna as the symbolic representation of the natural world. A dialogue ensues between these two protagonists and so the philosophy of Yoga is passed on to the young Arjuna and finds its way into common consciousness where it resides for many thousands of years. In this class, I shall refer to the Yoga of Meditation that Krishna teaches Arjuna and how it all has such clear relevance some 2.600 years after this great tale was initially recorded.