1. Gita is the Original Scripture of Creation
Gita is the *first scripture of creation*. The imperishable Yoga that God spoke to the Sun at the beginning of creation had vanished over time. At the start of the Mahabharat war, by God’s grace, that same knowledge reappeared for the second time in the form of the Bhagavad Gita. When it was spoken the second time too, none of the sects prevalent today in the name of religion had even been born. Gita was the scripture of the entire world. The oldest Gita has the distinction of being the only scripture spoken by the Supreme Being Himself, not by any messenger. He did not speak it for the benefit of any one tribe, but addressing all of mankind as His pure part. God called it a scripture – `iti guhyatamam shastram` (Gita, 15/20); and He also warned that one who does not follow this scriptural method and acts arbitrarily cannot attain success, perfection, supreme goal etc. – he is deprived of all these (Gita, 16/23).
The Gita, spoken by the very mouth of that Supreme Being of whom you are a pure part, is your original scripture. By acting according to it, within four to six months God begins to give instructions from within your heart. You will find that you are protected from all sides and your wishes begin to be fulfilled. Even a little practice of the means told in it frees you from the bondage of birth and death and grants attainment of the one Supreme Being. Whatever practice is done in this birth never perishes; in future births the practice automatically continues from there. The same practice advances in every birth, therefore *conversion of religion does not happen*.
2. It Removes Misconceptions and Exploitation
In medieval India, if one ate a grain of rice touched by Muslim or Christian invaders, or drank a sip of water from their hands, Hindu religion was considered destroyed and that person was excommunicated from Hinduism. If that was religion, then today everyone has eaten food touched by everyone, so everyone’s religion should be destroyed. In those days, people were excommunicated from religion and caste for crossing the sea. Today people consider it a great fortune to go overseas. In reality, religion is not destroyed by touching, eating, crossing the sea or any worldly activity.
The reason for these delusions was the ban imposed by administrators on the original scripture Gita – “Don’t keep Gita at home, or the son will become a sanyasi.” Gita is for sanyasis, whereas both the speaker of Gita, Lord Shri Krishna, and the listener Arjun, were householders. Since Gita is a part of Mahabharat, administrators propagated “Don’t read Mahabharat, or there will be Mahabharat in the house.” They deprived women and the majority of people from education saying that not everyone can read Sanskrit, the language of gods, so that people could not understand the reality. For their own convenience, they arbitrarily declared varna as caste, called some high and some low, and erected a wall of hatred and division in society. In the absence of the scripture Gita, whatever anyone said became religion. So that the exploited people would not revolt, weapons were taken away from them saying only Kshatriyas could bear arms. Out of a hundred, seven were Kshatriyas; among them women and children. Only two or three could fight. If they were defeated, the rest could be herded like animals. That is what happened. Taking advantage of internal division, foreign invaders took them away like animals, killed them or sold them for two rupees each.
Today even senior politicians have started saying that Hindu is not a religion at all, just a way of life. Nothing more than that because they do not have one universally accepted scripture.
Sir, all this is the ill-effect of forgetting the scripture Gita today. Even now thousands of commentaries on Gita are available, but in no commentary is it clarified: What are varna? What is varnasankar? What is called karma in Gita? What is the real yagya? War? Bodily sustenance? Whom to worship? Why? How? What all comes under dharma? What is the clear definition of dharma? What are gods and demons?
No satisfactory solution is found to all these. With a gap of thousands of years, the meaning of Gita has been lost, so under the direction of that same God, this unique commentary on Gita, *’Yatharth Gita’*, is before you in which you will find solutions to all these questions. This commentary gives you clear knowledge of dharma by which you will be spontaneously freed from exploitation, superstition, delusions and mental slavery happening in the name of religion; no one will ever be able to mislead you in the name of religion.
By misinterpreting a verse fragment of Gita `chaturvarnyam maya srishtam` (Gita 4/13), administrators propagated that varna or caste, their high and low status, was created by God, that it is in Gita. Whereas in ‘Yatharth Gita’, in the commentary on that same verse, it is explained that *varna are progressive steps of spiritual practice, they exist in the heart of all human beings, varna do not exist outside*. God did not create anyone high or low in society. All are pure parts of God. All are as holy as God Himself. The right to worship belongs to all those who have obtained a human body, no matter where they were born, whether they are fair or dark. No better solution to the discriminatory caste system prevalent in Indian society is found anywhere else than in ‘Yatharth Gita’. For the eradication of religious delusions, for freedom from untouchability, discrimination and religious fanaticism, reading ‘Yatharth Gita’ is essential.
3. Benefits in Home and Family
Do not sprinkle rice and sandalwood on this copy of ‘Yatharth Gita’ and lock it in a cupboard, rather take the merit of giving it hand-to-hand for reading to children, elders, transgenders and women – everyone. It has been seen that with continuous reading of ‘Yatharth Gita’ in homes, in children’s schoolbags, at collective prayer or festival sites, happiness, peace and prosperity increase. Wherever the sound of ‘Yatharth Gita’ reading resounds – cursed, evil souls run away from there (see Gita 11/36); a source of imperishable happiness, eternal peace, prosperity in family, unity and harmony surges forth. By propagating the exact commentary of the original scripture Gita, ‘Yatharth Gita’, you become partaker of immense merit and people listening to Gita recitation far and wide in every village, town and city also become partaker of welfare and can understand the true form of dharma.
*|| Hari Om Tat Sat ||*