The Pleasure Hunt- Session 1 summary from Mon 1/28-2013

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:

• 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?