1.  Name of the Student: Bhayani Darshika Bharatkumar
 MIS ID: 111113010
 Department: Production
 Area: Philosophy
 Sub Area: Religious studies
 Faculty Mentor: Joshi Sir
 Date of the presentation: 10th December , 2012

2. exploring Topics
Topic 1: BiBle
DescripTion: Holy book, basically wrote for
Christians. Assumed to be told by Jesus Christ. One
of the most sacred books on Earth.
Topic 2: Quran
DescripTion: Holy book, basically wrote for
Muslims. It is also one of the most sacred books.
Topic 3: BhagavaD giTa
DescripTion : Holy book, meant for everyone. It is
assumed to be told by Krishna to Arjuna. One of the
most sacred books on Earth. No barriers but just not
to make it a big topic I have chosen Bhagavad Gita
which itself is a vast topic to cover. But I will try to
cover as much as possible and moreover I will try to
implement whatever I have gained in the procedure.

4. Focus QuesTions
Q1. Basic teachings of Gita
Q2. Yoga as described in Gita.
Q3. Reaching God.
Q4. What is evil and hell?
Q5. Thoughts of great people

5.  It is about Five Thousand years old.
 Eighteen chapters.
 Seven Hundred Shlokas.
 Commented upon by many.
 Interpreted with their orthodox views.
 Innumerable philosophical understanding.
 Yet to understood more.
 Very few practice.

6.  About living
 To love and not Hate
 Joy of harmony.
 Bliss of devotion.
 Existence of Atman in every one,
 Atman unites every living
 And all should aspire to reach Paramatma.

7. One sees it as a mystery or one speaks of it or hears
of it as mystery but none know it
Gita 13 - 29

8. What ever you are
You are Dear to me.

9. Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita refers to the skill of union
with the ultimate reality or the Absolute.
Sivananda's commentary regards the eighteen
chapters of the Bhagavad Gita as having a
progressive order, by which Krishna leads "Arjuna
up the ladder of Yoga from one rung to another.” The
influential commentator Madhusudana Sarasvati
divided the Gita's eighteen chapters into three
sections of six chapters each.
Chapters 1–6 = Karma yoga, the means to the final goal
Chapters 7–12 = Bhakti yoga or devotion
Chapters 13–18 = Jnana yoga or knowledge, the goal
itself

10. Karma yoga:
According to Fowler, since it is impossible for living beings to avoid
action all together, the Bhagavad Gita therefore offers a practical
approach to liberation in the form of Karma yoga. The path of Karma
yoga upholds the necessity of action. However, this action is to be
undertaken without any attachment to the work or desire for results.
Bhagavad Gita terms this "inaction in action and action in inaction ". The
concept of such detached action is also called Nishkam Karma.
With the body, with the mind, with the intellect, even merely with the
senses, the Yogis perform action toward self-purification, having
abandoned attachment. He who is disciplined in Yoga, having abandoned
the fruit of action, attains steady peace.
By desireless action; by renouncing fruits of action; by dedicating all
activities to God, i.e., by surrendering oneself to Him. In order to achieve
true liberation, it is important to control all mental desires and tendencies
to enjoy sense pleasures.
When a man dwells in his mind on the object of sense, attachment to
them is produced. From attachment springs desire and from desire comes
anger.
From anger arises bewilderment, from bewilderment loss of memory; and
from loss of memory, the destruction of intelligence and from the
destruction of intelligence he perishes"

11. Bhakti Yoga:
The introduction to chapter seven of the Bhagavad Gita explains bhakti
as a mode of worship which consists of unceasing and loving
remembrance of God. Faith (Śraddhā) and total surrender to a chosen
God (Ishta-deva) are considered to be important aspects of bhakti.
Devotion, meditation, and worship are essential. Ramakrishna believed
that the essential message of the Gita could be obtained by repeating
the word Gita several times, "'Gita, Gita, Gita', you begin, but then find
yourself saying 'ta-Gi, ta-Gi, ta-Gi'. Tagi means one who has renounced
everything for God.”
And of all yogins, he who full of faith worships Me, with his inner self
abiding in Me, him, I hold to be the most attuned (to me in Yoga)....
those who, renouncing all actions in Me, and regarding Me as the
Supreme, worship Me... For those whose thoughts have entered into
Me, I am soon the deliverer from the ocean of death and
transmigration, Arjuna. Keep your mind on Me alone, your intellect on
Me. Thus you shall dwell in Me hereafter.
He who does work for Me, he who looks upon Me as his goal, he who
worships Me, free from attachment, who is free from enmity to all
creatures, he goes to Me, O Pandava.

12. Jnana Yoga:
Jnana yoga is the path of wisdom, knowledge, and direct experience
of Brahman as the ultimate reality. The path renounces both desires
and actions, and is therefore depicted as being steep and very difficult
in the Bhagavad Gita. This path is often associated with the non-
dualistic Vedantic belief of the identity of the Ātman with the
Brahman. For the followers of this path, the realisation of the identity
of Ātman and Brahman is held as the key to liberation.
When a sensible man ceases to see different identities due to different
material bodies and he sees how beings are expanded everywhere, he
attains to the Brahman conception.
Those who see with eyes of knowledge the difference between the
body and the knower of the body, and can also understand the process
of liberation from bondage in material nature, attain to the supreme
goal.

13.  Gita Never imposes any thing
 Follow any Yoga ( Karma yoga, Bhakti yoga,
Jgnana Yoga )
 Or just have faith in me
 Obtain salvation.
Just have love to me and find ultimate
solution to worldly problems.

14.  I dwell in the heart of being to see me in all things
and all things in him.
 Just leave all else behind come to thou to me for
shelter.
 I shall deliver thee from all sins
 Grieve thou no more

15.  Fix you mind on me
 Devote yourself to
me
 Worship me
 Do homage to me
 Discipline yourself
 You shall come to me

16. The power of God is with you at
all times through the activities of
mind, senses, breathing and
emotions and constantly doing
all the work using you as a mere
Instrument

17. The mind acts like Enemy to
those who do not control it.

18. I am the Sacrifice.
I am the Worship
I am the Medical Herb
I am the Vedic Hymn

19. Who is free from elation, Anger,
Sorrow and craving
Who seeks neither unpleasant
and shows unpleasantness.

20. Men born with evil tendencies know neither
what is right to do to achieve a Good object, or
what is Right to abstain from doing to avert Evil,
neither purity nor truth nor even right Behavior is
found in them

21. Hell has three
Gates
Anger, Lust, and
Greed

22. BHAGAVAD GITA

23.  गीता सुग ीता कतरव ा
िकमनयैः शासिवसतरै ः।
या सवयं पदनाभसय
मुख पदािदिनःसृत ा।।
 जो अपने आप श्रीिवष्णु भगवान
के मुखकमल से िनकली हुई है
वह गीता अच्छी तरह कण्ठसथ
करना चािहए | अनय शासों के
िवसतार से क्या लाभ? - Ved
Vyas

24.  From a clear
knowledge of the
Bhagavad-Gita all
the goals of human
existence become
fulfilled. Bhagavad-
Gita is the manifest
quintessence of all
the teachings of the
Vedic scriptures.

25.  The Bhagavad-
Gita is the
epitome of the
Mahabharata just
as ghee is the
essence of milk
and pollen is the
essence of
flowers.

26.  The Bhagavad-Gita is a
true scripture of the
human race, a living
creation rather than a
book, with a new
message for every age
and a new meaning for
every civilization.

27.  I owed a magnificent day
to the Bhagavad-gita. It
was the first of books; it
was as if an empire spoke
to us, nothing small or
unworthy, but large,
serene, consistent, the
voice of an old intelligence
which in another age and
climate had pondered and
thus disposed of the same
questions which exercise
us.

28. When doubts haunt me,
when disappointments
stare me in the face, and I
see not one ray of hope on
the horizon, I turn to
Bhagavad-gita and find a
verse to comfort me; and I
immediately begin to smile
in the midst of
overwhelming sorrow.
Those who meditate on the
Gita will derive fresh joy
and new meanings from it
every day.

29. The Gita is a Universal Mother, She turns away
nobody, Her door is wide open to any one who
knocks.

30.  Among the priceless
teachings that may
be found in the great
Indian epic
Mahabharata, there
is none so rare and
priceless as the Gita.

31.  The total scientific community
of the World combined can
never outright discard
Bhagwad Gita as it is the
foremost of all sacred
Scriptures... as most spiritual
phenomenon do not offer
proof but can be felt and
experienced if logically
followed to the end.

32. The prime reason why Albert Einstein failed
to understand Gita in the earlier years of his
life... every scientist in the world... rather
science demands proof. In the system of
God it is absolute faith that rules the roost!
Devoid of absolute faith in God almighty and
searching for proofs at every stage of life...
most scientists' world over never come to
understand Bhagavad Gita!

33. Spirituality can never be
attained until
Materialism is gone

34. Don't forget Every Ounce of
pleasure brings it’s pound of
pain

35. When ever there is a decline of
DHARMA and Ascendance of
ADHRMA, I Manifest in a Body.

38.  Book 1: Autobiography Of A Yogi
-Sri Sri Paramhansa Yogananda
 Book 2: God talks with Arjuna
THE BHAGAVAD GITA
- Sri Sri Paramhansa
Yogananda
 Book 3: Victory Over Death
- Radheshyam Das, M.Tech., IIT, Mumbai
 Book 4: Bhagavad Gita-As It Is
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
 Book 5: Bhagavda Gita(e-book)

39.  Book 6 : Bhagavad Gita(e-book)
- with Commentaries of Ramanujan,
Madhav, Shankara and others