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Bhagavad Gita
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
WE TRY to hide from our mortality, but in vain. Suffering and death catch us one day or another to teach us their lesson. Though we struggle, minds and egos are finally humbled and reduced, until we stand vulnerable and trembling like innocent, open children. Only when shaken from our attachment to the outer world, do we finally cry out for the inner strength to transcend it. Thus, have the dynamics of rebirth been described in the scriptures of all the great world religions. Let’s look to the most sacred of Hindu
scriptures for a deeper appreciation of these dynamics.
The Vedas are believed by devout Hindus not only to have come directly from God but, because their message is difficult for mortal man to understand, to have been dramatized by Him later in real life, to make it more comprehensible. The Bhagavad-Gita (the Song of God), considered by many the gospel of India, supposedly chronicles this event. In it, Krishna, who has been called the Christ of India,
and Arjuna—the apotheosis of purified man, ready for profound 115