Page 15 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 2

BHAGWAN SRIKRISHNA AND SRIRAMCHANDRA’S RAJAYOGA
These are called the Prasthana Thraya. So the people have commented on all these three. Some of them commented consistently; some of them did not comment consistently. For the first time commentaries on Gita have come without reference to the need of integrating it with the advent of the spiritual renaissance that we had in the last century, followed by the political freedom movement. Tilak wrote his commentary, Aurobindo wrote his commentary, so did Mahatma Gandhi. These are the three very important persons who have written the commentaries on Bhagavad Gita without bothering about integrating it with either the Upanishads or the Vedanta Sutras. For the first time, Revered Babuji goes further in this process and doesn’t even give the commentary on Gita but only tells us what the crux of the matter is. If you had at any point of time read an essay on Bhagavad Gita of Aurobindo, or that of Gandhi or Tilak, you will really be feeling the understanding they had of the whole subject and how their movements were dictated by the meanings they generated from
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