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BHAGWAN SRIKRISHNA AND SRIRAMCHANDRA’S RAJAYOGA
– Intellectual work. But all are agreed on this point that there was Dharma sankatam. In this connection, a few days back I was reading a small book. It seems there was an Indore Maharani called Ahalya who was not literate. So she asked some Purohit to read for her the Bhagavad Gita and he starts reading “Dharma Kshetre, Kuru Kshetre “ and she says “stop it, no need for reading further”. He was confused because he was a scholar himself and asked her “What makes you say this”. The message of Krishna is understood in this, she said. What is it that you understand Madam? I understand the sentence as, (in Sanskrit this is permissible) “Kshetre Kshetre Dharmam Kuru”. That is, in every field of action, do your duty. That is the meaning of the whole of Bhagavad Gita. I don’t have to read the remaining portion. Illiterate she was, I think she was more illumined than others. The spiritual aspiration of the person was met with, without going through the commentaries. Why I am saying this is – so long as we retain our Viveka and our thinking capacity, we will be in a position to understand the real
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