Gita A Paper and Non Dualistic view

Gita A Paper and Non Dualistic view

The Bhagavad Gita has emerged from the religious life of mankind. Its origin stems from the orient, yet its application is universal. It is articulated by seers of truth, and embraces the whole gamut of the human spirit.

The Gita is about the meaning and value of existence set in reason and intuition. It is both metaphysics and ethics. It is about the science of reality and the art of union with reality.

It teaches that the realm of spirit is not cut off from the realm of life.

It teaches that to divide man into outer desires and inner qualities is to violate the integrity of life.

It shows us how the two orders of reality, the transcendental and the empirical, are closely related.

The teachings affirm that Brahman (God the Father) is one without a second. The entire world of manifestation and multiplicity is not real in itself and seems to be real only to those who live in ignorance (avidya).

To be caught up in the manifest aspect of the world is the bondage in which we are all implicated.

This lost condition cannot be removed by our own efforts.

Works are vain and bind us firmly to this unreal cosmic process (samsara), and to the endless chain of cause and effect (karma). 

The seers tell us that the only action that is essential, is for the purification of the mind, then, when wisdom is attained action falls away.

For those who need to be involved in activity, all action and its fruits are to be surrendered in God.