BHAGAVAD GITA IN DAILY LIFE

AS UNDERSTOOD BY JAGADISH
REFERENCE: SWAMI CHINAMAYANANDA

This is a small treatise of information about Bhagavad-Gita and how it can be applied to
management and daily life

WHY STUDY GEETA IN 21ST CENTURY

IN 21st century management problems overall have become much more tougher to solve , people
brain power even now hasn’t developed much to the increasing demand of customers .
Customers have become much more demanding with increased after sale service notion and
other benefits are being asked by them which has made managing them tougher and tougher
with coming days

What can Geeta teach to them is now the question?

Geeta expounds the relationship between human beings by helping each other in a novel fashion.
It teaches youth of today as to how to face the world with gusto, with manliness, sublimity and
honesty in making decisions without getting bogged down to daily tensions in office and house
Geeta teaches you the change management principle of how a normal individual in daily life faces
problems of change in office and how with the help of Geeta he can win laurels in office and
house management by applying the principle of ethics etc
Geeta has been taught and can be taught in different languages and in different ways but I
thought of highlighting in a novel fashion as applicable to managing resources in office mainly
and to certain extent house management

This is a honest initiative to make Geeta called by Indians as Bhagavad-Gita to bring it closer to
the doorstep of management
Hope you all would love to read this along with me to explore this beautiful proposition (for or
against the topic ) of Bhagavad-Gita
In today’s tension field people are looking for spiritualistic growth along with mental growth that is
why reading Bhagavad-Gita and understanding it becomes part and parcel of a student, manager
and employee’s life to know what is right and wrong in today’s world

Chapter One

In the story of Bhagavad gita Arjuna is considered to be a human being having

personal problem in life . he has to chose in a battlefield whether to fight or leave the
battle field , fighting against relatives and friends was the most difficult task assigned
to him,. sri krishna atlast understands his problem and gives him a dosage as to how
to lead life in times of difficulty
in the same way a human being also encounters problems like arjuna which
sometimes is easy to solves and sometimes so tricky that you need guidance, in the
battlefield of mahabharata arjuna took the guidance of friend, philosopher in the
shape of krishna , the lord.

jagadish also states that having a mentor is very crucial in life to solve the day to
day problems

the great shiv khera in his book you can win talks about having association with high
moral ethics gives you greater rewards than being associated with wretched , money
minded personalities who are just bothered about themselves. in times of difficulty
only moral ethics (on which the book talks about) people give assurance and
guidance about lifting people from wretched lives and not the other way round

how to select a mentor is now a question that can be asked now ? the answer is
simple, child looks out towards parents for guidance, students looks out for guidance
in the form of teacher, elders look out for guidance in form of books , now question
arises are these mentors perfect mentors or not, the question here is nobody is
perfect in life but situations handling determines whether the guy duped a person or
gave a helping hand , only high moral ethics , not even lesser moral ethics, it is
higher moral ethics association determines whether you are a successful or just
another guy in life sent to earth and did a job and left as it is or worked for
betterment of humanity with face in the crowd

moral of the story

1) get associated with high moral ethics people

2) judge them whether mentors help people in and around them when the chips are
down or not
3) even elders make mistake, have decision making skills and
4) financial personal affairs books are very crucial for survival in this 21st century
5) share and read knowledgable books in life , they are the once which tell you
whether you are successful or just a laggard in life

www.investopedia.com

chapter 2

The lord Krishna talks about STITHPRGNATVA ( balance of mind in times of

emergency situation ) also called as sankhya yoga . The lord himself ridicules Arjuna
to have balance of mind in life. STITHPRAGNATVA if one person develops over a
period of time through meditation automatically attains hold on living life joyfully. it
is just like stoic philosophy of life being of same personality whether happiness or
sadness comes to a person through events

people take advantage of any person if balance of mind is not their .emotional people
can easily be exploited and made fun off by intelligent people. if you do not want to
give baton to intelligent people learn to develop stoic philosophy in life which very
enthusiastically told by lord krishna in the form of STITHPRAGNATVA

how to develop this type of stoic philosophy in life. do a lot of meditation for 1 hour
daily . ask a person to ridicule you every now and then , never react to the words
and keep your temper and composure towards the person criticizing you with even
mindset.

how to do meditation is now the question

you can do it by praying to the lord by keeping his image in the thought and
focussing all your attention towards that photo in the mind. concentrate and develop
balance of mind (STITHPRAGNATVA)

moral of the story

a) read personality books of Anthony robbins

b) read personality books of Dale carnegie
c) Develop balance of mind through meditation for just 1 hour daily

CHAPTER 3

The lord talks about bhakti yoga ( having faith in lord) in times of difficult times.
according to jagadish this is the easiest path adopted by people to stay away from
problems by an intelligent being. just say to yourself whenever a problem comes if
you believe in bhakti yoga

The problem has come, now lord wants me to settle the issue , it is his wish
so i am performing the act, the lord would take care for the actions taken by
me to solve the problem. It is his blessing in disguise

the question here now arises that lord krishna himself never advocated entirely to
leave it to the god. he also stated to perform actions to solve the problem also and
not leave the problem without taking necessary steps to solve the problem. it is
belief blindly followed by many thinking action is not needed while lord said do not
leave the result to god but do action to solve the problem as much as you can to
solve it

moral of the story

a) Never leave a problem unsolved , leave the problem to the lord only if you are
satisfied that proper action has been taken by you wholeheartedly
b) read sprituality books to get solace

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

chapter 4

The lord Krishna talks about karma yoga . here he states to arjuna that performing
an action is also as good as bhakti yoga. this type of yoga is done by those who
believe in performing work for pleasure. work has to be taken seriously but also
joyfully. actions determine results of one individual and those who take actions as
per their liking give much more results and have much more satisfaction towards life
than those who take actions and job for name sake

karma yoga talks about leaving action after performing them to satisfaction. the
basic difference between bhakti yoga and karma yoga is that bhakti yoga talks about
action leaving it to god , karma yoga talks about performing action and leaving
action without looking for returns for the action taken

vivekananda says that work if you do not perform in karma yoga their is always
somebody else in your place to perform the action. it is you who have been given the
responsibility to perform the action. if you delegate, you lose the opportunity but
their would always be someone who would grab the opportunity and leave a mark in
the time zone of humanity

moral of the story

a) look for responsibility handling if you can perform them on your own instead of
delegating everytime to others intelligently
b) read swami vivekananda books for guidance in life

http://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/complete_works.htm

CHAPTER 5

The lord again now talks to arjuna about jnana yoga ( yoga of knowledge ). it is
popular belief that jnana yoga if is talked about has to do it in the form of sharing
the knowledge with other. what is the use of keeping the knowledge with yourself ,
you can atleast make somebody life memorable by sharing the knowledge
their are hundreds of intellectuals in this world, but nobody bothered to contribute ,
they kept the knowledge to themselves and i call them fools because they never
bothered to create name for themselves. I believe in sharing knowledge this gives
you a upperhand in creating name and fame for yourself in 21st century and coming
centuries

moral of the story

a) write blogs and share knowledge , if luck permits and your hardwork gets
rewards, you can be face in the crowd
b) if you are afraid of blogs choose google docs or scribd to publish your literature
and get money in the process and knowledge and fame
c) leave this world a better place by choosing good deeds and knowledge is wealth if
shared through action not the other way round

CHAPTER 6

The lord again highlights to arjuna that their are three foundation stone on which
man has lived upon. they are tamas (lazy life), rajas ( active life) and lastly satvic
( which is combination of tamas and rajas). people mistakenly call satvic as spiritual
life but vivekananda defined it this way

which is better following ? which gives you better life ? . jagadish states and others
also who are intelligent would chose satvic type of lifestyle

why satvic and not rajas

rajas actually is work work and work without peace of mind or can be termed as
tension life, satvic life teaches you balance of life how to handle it effectively your life
without undergoing stress, do work leisurely is my concept, tamas on its own is
dangerous and you become good for nothing but if done with rajas gives you far
fetched results

how to be satvic

swamijis say do not eat spicy food if one has be in satvic . i call it wastage of words
because without spicy food how can you live life completely. one has to be allrounder
is life and not one sided life which nobody will neither understand life nor follow nor
one can lead by example

moral of the story

a) be satvic ( enjoy life) by being allrounder

b) read autobiography of people who have succeeded in life either spiritually or
business or in other areas where they gained success in life
c) chose books intelligently and win laurels of whole world through implementation of
modelling told by anthony robbins in his books

CHAPTER 7

lastly before leaving bhagavad gita summation of text is

A) live life as per your style not by following others blindfoldedly

B) Follow by leading through example by being face in the crowd
C) Follow healthy habbits by reading good books and be a vegetarian --- save
animals they are also living beings
D) Save planet from extinction by writing blogs
E) Create awareness for the knowledge you know
F) lastly be an allrounder

G) Think on what i wrote and not use it blindfoldedly but discuss with
someone intelligently

OM TAT SAT

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