Sri Chinmoy's Introduction to His Commentary on Gita

I read the Gita. Because it is the Eye of God.

Here is a man who has read the Eye of God. Issac Newton, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, all these people have been trying to read the mind of God, but in India we have some people who have already read the Eye of God apparently. Some others may have read the Nose of God, still others may have read the mouth of God (Read my lips! I am the Lord thy God!), others the ears, who knows there may be people who looked into the face of God and died then and there!

I sing the Gita. Because it is the Life of God.

Has God come out with his Autobiography finally? Oh my God, I am going to die! Somebody sing me farewell.

I live the Gita. Because it is the Soul of God.

This man is living the Soul of God, but still talking out of his ass, just old habits, they don't go away so easily!

The Gita is God’s Vision immediate.

'Immediate' as opposed to 'ultimate'. 'What is your immediate objective', 'what is your ultimate objective'? Normally, people speaking the English language use 'vision' in the sense of 'long-term' vision, you can't ask 'what is your immediate vision'? But in the case of God, his long-term vision can be realized immediately since he is omnipotent. So God has an immediate Vision, which is the Gita! And it is much more too, as we shall presently see.

The Gita is God’s Reality direct.

All those fools down the ages bothering about enlightenment, Truth and all that! All one has to do is keep a brand new copy of a nice edition of this book in front, and and look, and you have looked at the ultimate reality of the universe. What more enlightenment do you need?

They say that the Gita is a Hindu book, a most significant scripture. I say that it is the Light of Divinity in humanity. They say that the Gita needs an introduction. I say that God truly wants to be introduced by the Gita.

Nikola Tesla strived a great deal to produce free wireless electricity and light a lamp from nowhere, and thus beat his rival Thomas Edison flat. If only he knew there was this Light of Divinity freely available in any bookstores, the book price is nothing really, he surely would have experimented by putting a light bulb into the book. Also, the Light of Divinity would never go dim, and Tesla could have hit the jackpot! In fact, Nikola Tesla was a great fan of Hindu philosophy, but still must have thought Gita was just a most significant scripture. Unfortunately this divine light idea escaped him.

Arjuna is the ascending human soul. Krishna is the descending divine Soul. Finally they meet.

Well, I would like to think I am ascending divine soul, and Sri Chinmoy is a descending human soul, or vice versa who knows, but the point is we don't meet. Only an ascending human soul and a descending divine Soul meet. But what I don't get is why did they have to meet only on the battleground, they had known each other from childhood, and Krishna was all that time the descending divine Soul, and Arjuna the ascending human soul. But they simply didn't bother. Only when the chapter of Gita gets started, the ripe time has come finally!

The human soul says to the divine Soul: “I need you.” The divine Soul says to the human soul: “I need you, too. I need you for my self-manifestation. You need me for your self-realisation.”

God, I am already feeling very uncomfortable with this. The Radha and Krishna symbolism is so nice, they can keep hugging and petting and doing whatever with each other all the time to Kingdom come, oblivious to all the world. Just cool! Why didn't the writers stick to it! I feel a distinct sense of unease with this budding Krishna Arjuna romance. Guys have to keep some distance, maintain some decency, okay? They can't just say things like “I am the ascending human soul, and you are the descending divine soul. And we have to urgently merge.” Just a little quickie homo-style before the battle gets started perhaps?

That may have been Alexander's style but India is a holy land, such things are not allowed in India. My guess is that Alexander penetrated India and could have gone all the way through victoriously, if only he were a straight guy. But he was a homo, and Mother India couldn't really tolerate such nastiness. Maybe that's why the portions he penetrated became forever accursed, and eventually separated from India into some buggered neighboring country, constantly bugging India.

Arjuna says: “O, Krishna, you are mine, absolutely mine.” Krishna says: “O, Arjuna, no mine, no thine. We are the Oneness complete, within, without.”

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww. You know what is worse than homo sex, it is homo love! Two guys just drooling over each other, coochi-cooing, with eyes and expressions rapt in love, tenderness, oneness, swearing their unswerving love for each other, their faithfulness, the sanctity of their matrimony – all in front of the TV camera! Even if a guy and gal do that, I'd be somewhat put off, but guy and guy -- this is one of the ugliest sights to behold, no matter how hunky and gorgeous the guys may be! And Sri Chinmoy says this is God's Vision immediate, and God's Life direct. I say, if God is a homo, the universe is screwed for certain! You see, the universe is Prakriti or the feminine principle, God is Purusha, the male principle. Now if God starts taking a taste for another Purusha, say from the neighboring Purusha-Prakriti system, these two go and make out and have a jolly good time, but then the two prakritis have nothing to do but clash with each other! Two universes colliding with each other means total annihilation! Could it be possible that gays like to make love in the graveyard? Going by Krishna's desperate insistence that Arjuna should go ahead, kill everybody and make everything into a graveyard, I really tend to think so!

The Gita is an episode in the sixth book of the Mahabharata. “Mahabharata” means “Great India,” India the Sublime. This unparalleled epic is six times the size of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined.

Okay, so the Gita is God's official autobiography, and Mahabharatha seems to be the official history of India! Sri Chinmoy is such an idiot, he doesn't even know that Bharata in Mahabharatha doesn't refer to India, but just to the clan of descendants of Bharatha. India (Bharat) too takes the name after this guy, but bharata in Mahabaratha is not even in the remotest sense equivalent to India. This Bharatha guy is not the well-known Rama's younger brother, as people often mistake, but the very little known illegitimate son of Shakuntala. Bharata, the myth has it, was the first emperor of a united India. But nothing much is known about him, except of course the rather romantic circumstances of his birth, immortalised in Kalidasa's somewhat latter-day epic. Now, Odyssey is all about the adventures of Odysseus, Iliad is named after the capital of the region of Troy where the action takes place, Ramayana is all about the story Rama, but no one even knows the story of Bharatha, and most even don't know the identity! Surely it is an unparalleled epic! Sublime! Perhaps if it had focused on the story of what Bharatha conquered, how he conquered, instead of rambling on and on spewing forth silliest drivel about silly rivalries between silly cousins, this great epic could have made at least some sense. And at least Indians would have known something about the character after whom their beloved country is named. This epic is six times the size of Iliad and Odyssey combined, yes, and a typical 400-episode Star Plus serial (say, Saarrthi) would be six times all the three combined!

Surprising in size and amazing in thought is the Mahabharata.

Slight correction, it should be 'amazing in thoughtlessness'! Mahabharata is surprisingly thoughtless too, and thoughtlessly surprising. It is an amazing maze of thoughtlessly surprising size, and a sizeable thoughtless surprise.

The main story revolves around a giant rivalry between two parties of cousins.

Now this is what I call sublime! Rivalry about what? A little state in North India in 10^th century BC, as per some estimates! Can you get any more sublime than this? You can! When you go through the actual story, it is so full of sublime slime that you feel like applying the goo all over your body and running naked on the streets in divine ecstasy!

Their ancestral kingdom was the apple of discord.

Why not a mango of accord, or a guava of concord for that matter?

This rivalry came to its close at the end of a great battle called the Battle of Kurukshetra.

Though the epic itself drags on for six more of its total 18 chapters. Our soap writers could have done much better, they could have created one more rivalry immediately after the end of the original one. You can create any number of rivalries one after another, sublimity after sublimity! But in those days, they didn't have to bother about TRP's and advertising revenues. Actually, the rivalry doesn't come to end in the sense of getting resolved, it is simply that everyone is killed in the battlefield except for a handful of morons, and the greatest moron among them gets throned. The whole drive of Mahabharata seems to be to make Yudhisthira/Dharma Raja as the unchallenged king of a small kingdom, and this man is easily the greatest idiot imaginable, he doesn't have any skill, any knowledge, any capacity whatsoever, and is a pathologically addicted gambler. The only great thing he did was to take birth first! Mahabharatha should have been more aptly named as Mahayudhisthiratha. It is from this guy that a good deal of the sublimity of Mahabharatha flows. And strange indeed it is that all Light of Divinity, the Life of God and the Eye of God, and the Soul of God couldn't and did nothing to resolve a family rivalry nor put some sense into this maha moron, when he so debauchedly and maniacally goes on gambling away his kingdom, his brothers, his wife and himself and starts the holocaust! It seems it is from this morbid lunacy of men that the Soul of God takes birth. And a beautiful Bhagavad Gita flowers right in the midst of the sublime Mahabharatha.