Gita in 5 Minutes by T. Balakrishna Bhat - HTML preview

Notes:

1 Every individual during the course of his life experiences depressive, frightening, uncertain or hopeless situations. It is good to learn and practice how to manage, overcome or better still to avoid such situations. Anyone may replace this prayer with any other prayer, question or problem related to one's spiritual pursuits or to health, wealth, relationships, studies, management, science, profession, business, or politics with respect to nature, individuals or collectives and irrespective of one’s age, gender, or religious, social, educational or cultural background, one will be able to find an answer through the 46 +1 verses presented here.

2. refer special note at the end

3 (whose various manifestations respectively are: spiritualism /materialism / despotism; Godly / manly / demonic; contentment / greed / torpidity; unification /chaos / extinction; stimulation / containment / fighting; harmony/conditions / opponency; joyous /restless/ harmful; heavenly /worldly/ hellish; clarity/confusion /ignorance; knowledge/pride/stupor; elevating /static /degrading; goodness /passion/desperation)

4 (Even before approving your grave, nature carefully prepares an appropriate new womb ready for you and invites and pulls you right away; every moment of the soul given to it is precious for mother nature)

5 Right to work means right to focus with utmost devotion on your responsibilities and to work responsibly

6 You are not the cause of fruits because your responsibilities are defined by the circumstances you are in

7 (Which is known to generate composure). It is advisable to consult experts before practicing these.

8 This is the prime message of the Gītā. Time has come now to give up all the myriad limiting follower based religious and other divisive, restrictive identities and to take up leadership based ones of a ‘Yogi’. As a Yogi, you are your own leader and can reach the pinnacle of perfection and achievement in the material as well as spiritual world with no constraints of any type hindering you. Not only that, it will enable generation of immense wealth, prosperity and deep peace and happiness at the personal, family, regional, national and global level. It will also encompass not only humans but the whole of life. It is easy too and achievable with no expenditure. It will enable extraordinary unity and peace in the world. For all this, one need not go to anyone, as all the necessary tools are within each individual as described briefly in the 47 verses given here.

9 After completing the compilation, one night the author found himself chanting this altogether new verse in his dream. Chanting continued on the lips even after waking up; it was promptly put on paper.