Every event, issue, personality as portrayed in many epics
have depicted the historical contexts, authors’ imaginations, intellectual interpretations
of human activities, character analysis, psychological reactions, general human
gullibility, prevailing socio- cultural tradition of the region and predominant
ideologies etc.
Mahabharatha has a few more unique components. Besides all
the above referred portrayals, it also sandwiches many high philosophical
concepts and esoteric truths among its many events or slides them through the
characters. In addition to the contextually relevant /justifiable activities it
also has universally applicable principles and eternally valuable lessons for
life in general rather than specific contexts alone. These I feel are the superiority
of Mahabahartham and Ramayanam and therefore are subjected to multiple methods
of intellectual analysis.
Of course some areas may have hyper exaggerations whose
veracity cannot be established because of the sheer antiquity of the events,
lack of documentary evidence; In some cases even lack of historical proof and
predominance of metaphysics rather than advanced science of physics etc.
You may choose and follow this link to listen to many
discourses https://www.mediafire.com/folder/t8z2owv6mcsmc/Pravachananams
and also this young chap Dushyanth Sridhar who
speaks really very well https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9D946503A1511A96
and on many Vaishnanava literature by Zakir Hussein another youngster
and a student of chitra vishweswaran , in fact, krishna gana sabha organizes
one month long pravachanams by him every year.
Besides, of course, the interpretations of many aspects of
mahabharatham by Chinmayananda, sri aurobindo, Osho, sivananda,Rohit Metha [lessor
known but great personality whom I had the fortune of meeting in person and
talking on several issues because he was the heady mix of two ideological extremes
of the pendulum , for, he a Founder of the Socialist party of India
and Secretary of the International Theosophical Society and not only
that he could correlate many philosophical interpretations with his
extraordinary memory] he delves into the esoteric aspects of Gita etc.
Coming back to mahabharatha, bhawad geetha with its distilled
wisdom of many philosophical concepts, like a breezy knock by Vivian Richards
masking the great innings of Greenidge or Desmond Haynes, relegates the many
other parts of mahabharatha into relatively lesser significance.
I read 12 commentaries on bhawad geetha by these stalwarts
and thought a better way to convey them would be through a very brief account
of the essence of philosophy contained in Bhagawad geetha here [ not what I
follow or fully accept as a reference manual for my life but what the text
revealed to me as it is]
and some others like
No comments:
Post a Comment