Ravi Ravindra - The Yoga of Krishna

Sunday 21st April 2024
In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says that those devotees are exceedingly dear to him who carry out the dharma (duty, responsibility, obligation, right action) taught by Him. However, an action cannot be right unless the actor is right. To be a right actor a searcher needs to practice yoga. Krishna refers to many kinds of yoga, but the main yoga that He teaches is Buddhi yoga, the yoga of awareness. [BG 2.39, 10.10, 18.57].
Buddhi yoga has both a psychological aspect as well as a cosmological one. A searcher practicing buddhi yoga can be aware of the call from the trans-personal spiritual energy and bring the appropriate response from the personal physical energy. The right response sometimes requires a physical action, sometimes right knowledge, sometimes meditation, and sometimes submission in devotion and love to the Mysterious One. Buddhi yoga coordinates the various yogas in a person like a conductor in an orchestra sometimes calls drums, sometimes strings and sometimes flute.
RAVI RAVINDRA, PhD, is an international speaker and the author of books on religion, science, and spirituality. A Canadian of Indian birth, he is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, where he served for many years as a professor in comparative religion, philosophy, and physics. .. visit: ravindra.ca/
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Students of the Bh Gita, particularly those living outside India, are quick to add that the background to the Gita is an "inner war" . This is most probably due to their fear that if they admit to the truth about the background to this great book as being an actual battle between two warring armies, Western academia might pick on the Gita as a "war mongering" book. In fact, there is no verse in the Gita that glorifies or even legitimises unnecessary violence, aggression and bloodshed. Yes, during the dialog, deep questions of inner struggles, moral dilemma, action versus non-action, the modes of nature (gunas) etc are dealt with in remarkable style, but we must not forget that Vyasadeva, the author, has narrated this battle as an actual 'sangarsh' between the forces of dharma and adharma. Only when we keep the whole of the Mahabharata in view while studying the Gita, will it make complete sense as a sacred book of brahmavidya and yoga-shastra.