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Arjuna’s arguments

I feel like taking a pause and listen more to Arjuna’s arguments. I should be talking about Krishna’s dialogue as he will just begin in our shlokas targeted for this week…but for a long time I was feeling like reading Arjuna’s arguments again and again.

 When we read Geeta, we look forward to what Krishna has said…. But to actually read Geeta, I feel one has to become a good listener. the whole narrative of the dialogue is in the form of questions and answers. And when Arjuna begins to speak about his turmoil and concerns even then one must listen. Arjuna’s arguments tell a lot about his personality and thought process—the thought process of a true seeker. How deep can he sense what is going to come? What his actions would result? what is important and what has to be given up? Something that goes deep into the roots of the problems and hits his conscious. But to travel that deep requires a certain kind of sensitivity and genuineness- and that probably brought to him the song of the cosmos, the song of Krishna.

I am actually overwhelmed to read Gyaneshwari, and just the reason that it was Geeta translated by a yogi child at the tender age of 15, gives me a sense that I am looking into this cosmic song through the eyes of innocence, he (Gyaneshwara) being from the 13th-century—imagine a teenager of that time, a yogi at a very tender age, an enlightened soul who knew his purpose in life very well..

Posting Arjuna’s arguments here for everyone to read.


                         





 













-seeker

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