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Day 2
31st Ausust, Friday
Page no 8/583
I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaisnava devotees of the
Lord who can fulfill the desires of everyone, just like desire trees,
and who are full of compassion for the fallen souls.
sri-krsna-caitanya
prabhu-nityananda
sri-advaita gadadhara
srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda
I offer my obeisances to Sri Krsna Caitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri
Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivasa and all others in the line of devotion.
hare krsna hare krsna
krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama
rama rama hare hare
Bhagavad-gita is also known as Gitopanisad. It is the essence of Vedic
knowledge and one of the most important Upanisads in Vedic literature.
Of course there are many commentaries in English on the Bhagavad-gita,
and one may question the necessity for another one. This present
edition can be explained in the following way. Recently an American
lady asked me to recommend an English translation of Bhagavad-gita. Of
course in America there are so many editions of Bhagavad-gita available
in English, but as far as I have seen, not only in America but also in
India, none of them can be strictly said to be authoritative because in
almost every one of them the commentator has expressed his own opinions
without touching the spirit of Bhagavad-gita as it is.
The spirit of Bhagavad-gita is mentioned in Bhagavad-gita itself. It is
just like this: If we want to take a particular medicine, then we have
to follow the directions written on the label. We cannot take the
medicine according to our own whim or the direction of a friend. It
must be taken according to the directions on the label or the
directions given by a physician. Similarly, Bhagavad-gita should be
taken or accepted as it is directed by the speaker Himself.
The speaker of Bhagavad-gita is Lord Sri Krsna. He is mentioned on every page of
Bhagavad-gita as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan. Of
course the word bhagavan sometimes refers to any powerful person or any
powerful demigod, and certainly here bhagavan designates Lord Sri Krsna
as a great personality, but at the same time we should know that Lord
Sri Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as is confirmed by all
great acaryas (spiritual masters) like Sankaracarya, Ramanujacarya,
Madhvacarya, Nimbarka Svami, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and many other
authorities of Vedic knowledge in India. The Lord Himself also
establishes Himself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the
Bhagavad-gita, and He is accepted as such in the Brahma-samhita and all
the Puranas, especially the Srimad-Bhagavatam, known as the Bhagavata
Purana (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam). Therefore we should take Bhagavadgita
as it is directed by the Personality of Godhead Himself.
In the Fourth Chapter of the Gita (4.1-3) the Lord says:
imam vivasvate yogam
proktavan aham avyayam
vivasvan manave praha
manur iksvakave 'bravit
evam parampara-praptam