What Is The Moral Of The Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad-Gita teaches the concept of escaping the cycle of life and death by freeing oneself from selfish actions and focusing entirely on the divine in actions. If a person is able to act with no selfishness towards God he will be rewarded with his karma going away and thus the dissolution of the soul. Dissolution of the soul is a key accomplishment because if the soul is gone you will never be rebirthed again and you will go to a higher place. This story starts with Dhirtarastra, the blind king, going to battle with the Pandavas in order to get control of Hastinapura. In this passage, Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu, is trying to convince Arjuna, the leader of the Pandavas, to fight against the blind king. Arjuna does not want to fight
Free from attraction, fear, and anger, filled with me, dependent on me, purified by the fire of knowledge, many come into my presence. As they seek refuge in me, I devote myself to them; Arjuna, men retrace my path in every way. The opening sentence of this passage states that one must have knowledge about Krishna’s divine conception and what his actions are and why they are important. If one knows this they escape rebirth, rebirth is an extremely important word in this sentence because escaping rebirth is the goal of the divine. So essentially Krishna is giving Arjuna the way to escape being born again and a way into a higher place. When Krishna says when he abandons the body and comes to me he means that one must not focus on the pleasures and actions of the body and instead focus purely on the divine. The next stanza might be the most important because when he says free from attraction, fear, and anger he is essentially saying he must get rid of that and instead try to go down the path of devotion. The path of devotion is one of the 3 paths and is the most important one because it leads to Sattva. Sattva is lucidity and one gets this through spiritual