Is there anything about The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita that youd like to highlight?
The beautiful thing about the Bhagavad Gita is that it relates to every level of life, including that stage which is higher than any level: moksha. The Gita doesn’t, as many sadhus have done, talk only about achieving moksha. It describes liberation as the true goal of life, but it states also that one should at least go in that direction: accept as much of the truth as we can, and live by that. It is a guide to behavior for everyone. We should all direct our thoughts and actions toward ultimate freedom from desire, compulsion, and sense-slavery. All these levels of teaching are contained in the Gita. What Paramhansa Yogananda did was show that the Bhagavad Gita is based in truth as it is being confirmed by modern science. Krishna spoke of energy; of the vastness of the material universe; of subtler universes that people in former times couldn’t understand. Another wonderful thing about his explanation is that it shows Krishna to have been completely practical in his understanding of h
