{"id":11160,"date":"2013-01-02T06:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2013-01-02T06:14:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:14:48","slug":"classroom-on-a-chariot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"Classroom On A Chariot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/452013-01-02-06-1245.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Gautam Saha:  Five thousand years ago, in the holy grounds of Kurukshetra<br \/>\nThe Pandavas were ready to take on the sons of Dhrtarashtra<br \/>\nThe two great armies met for the final test<br \/>\nTo see which would emerge their victorious best  <\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the assembled warriors<br \/>\nBetween the rows of arrayed soldiers<br \/>\nArjuna, the supreme archer, paused and reflected<br \/>\nLord Krishna, his charioteer, smiled and waited  <\/p>\n<p>Arjuna, though dressed for battle, was not easy of mind<br \/>\nHe was doubtful and unsettled, unready to face the grind<br \/>\nIn such a state of mind, how could Arjuna be an asset to his side ?<br \/>\nIf he was unready for battle, the evil Kauravas would triumph betide<\/p>\n<p>Lord Krishna, the Lord and Master of every living entity<br \/>\nProceeded to rectify this situation with full mastery<br \/>\nHe spoke the holy words of the Bhagavad Gita which filled Arjuna\u2019s mind<br \/>\nAnd removed all traces of illusion which had rendered him blind <\/p>\n<p>The Lord spoke with great scholarship and prowess<br \/>\nHe removed Arjuna\u2019s doubts with depth and finesse\\<br \/>\nArjuna\u2019s misgivings were gone and he rediscovered his self assertion<br \/>\nHe stood up and readied himself for combat and confrontation<\/p>\n<p>Arjuna learnt that yoga is work without looking for gain or loss<br \/>\nThose who are on this path are resolute in purpose<br \/>\nThose who are in yoga do not look for sense gratification<br \/>\nTo satisfy the Supreme Lord is their true determination<\/p>\n<p>A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires<br \/>\nOnly can attain peace, not the one who seeks to fulfill those desires<br \/>\nHe who has given up all longing for proprietorship and sense gratification<br \/>\nAnd false ego, he alone can attain real tranquility and imperturbation<\/p>\n<p>While empowering him with the divine knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita<br \/>\nThe Lord also empowered the whole of humanity with the Bhagavad Gita<br \/>\nFor one who has imbibed fully the lessons from this classroom<br \/>\nThere is nothing further to be known from any other classroom<\/p>\n<p>Lord Krishna thus spoke to the whole of humanity at a stroke<br \/>\nThe setting on the battlefield was as dramatic as the wisdom He spoke<br \/>\nThe Lord spoke this eternal lesson for all generations, past present and future<br \/>\nWe are all very fortunate that the Lord Himself became our personal tutor !<\/p>\n<p>Gautam Saha <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/452013-01-02-06-1245.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Gautam Saha:  Five thousand years ago, in the holy grounds of Kurukshetra<br \/>\nThe Pandavas were ready to take on the sons of Dhrtarashtra<br \/>\nThe two great armies met for the final test<br \/>\nTo see which would emerge their victorious best <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}