Gita Yoga: Its Relevance in Religious Life

The Religious way of life is something different and challenging by its nature. It upholds values and practices focused on service to God and one’s neighbour. The evangelical vows of poverty, obedience and chastity make a religious free and sociable with everybody. This would ultimately profit the religious to accompany their flock to God.
 I, as a religious vouch for it. 
    On the other hand, the Bhagavad-Gita, a sacred text, part of the Great Epic Mahabharata also enshrines values and practices necessary for living a good life in communion with God and one’s neighbour. Though, the purpose of Bhagavad-Gita is to persuade Arjuna to fight, the Gita is not concerned with respective merits of war and peace, but with the deepest things of man and God. The Gita yoga, in specific, proposes ways and means to achieve its ultimate goal i.e. to be in communion with God (Lord Krishna) and to be of service to humanity. The Gita yoga is a blend of Karma yoga, Jnana yoga and Bhakti yoga. In a way, the Gita- yoga appears to be a blueprint for religious life.
Though, the Bhagavad-Gita has its origin in the east, it does have certain relevance in the Religious way of life. The virtue of discipleship, detachment and loving devotion to God are a few relevant topics in the Bhagavad Gita, in congruence with the Religious way of life. Being a witness to these attributes makes its relevance thicker in religious life.
   


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