We thank you all for joining us for the first session of the sakhi sanga meet. It was a pleasure to meet all of you like minded people interested in studying the Bhagavad Gita. We look forward to the next session with you.
Please find below a summary of what we discussed in the first session:
Please find below a summary of what we discussed in the first session:
- Story of 4 wives
- The fourth wife represents the soul the only one who will be there with the king even after death.
- We must invest in taking care of the needs of the soul.
- Real inquiries
- Search for Happiness
- Incredible Material Advancement
- Still a pinprick somewhere..
- Defining Real Problems
- Common to All
- No one wants it
- No one can avoid it
- What are these problems?
- Birth, Death, Old Age, Disease
- Miseries caused by :
- Body and Mind
- Other Living Entities
- Nature
- The special prerogative of Human Life :
- Rise above the struggle for
- Eating, Sleeping, Mating, Defending
- Being a sophisticated Animal
- Athato Brahma Jijnasa
- Inquire into the real problems of life
- To be covered in future sessions:
- Why is no one able to avoid these problems?
- Why is it designed this way?