Just came to know:

The conversation between Shri Krishna and Prince Arjuna is composed of a beautiful, harmonic and melodious rhyming meter. Hence, it is called a Git or Gita(both meaning song)

Arjuna is also called Gudakesha (gudaka + isha = sleep + Isha), the one who conquered the sleep. If he sets his eyes on practicing or achieving something, he would not sleep until he achieved it.

While u speak words of wisdom, u r mourning for the not worthy of grief. The wise lament neither for the living nor for the dead. Never was there a time when I(Bhagwan Shri Krishna)did not exist,nor u(Prince Arjun),nor all these kings;nor in the future shall any of us cease to be

Just as the embodied atma continuously passes from childhood to youth to old age, similarly,at the time of death, the atma passes into another body; the courageous one doesn’t grieve at it. The contact between the senses & the sense objects cause heat and cold, pleasure and pain.

They have a beginning & an end. They are impermanent and One must endure them bravely.
Those who are not affected by pleasure & pain,& remains steady in both, becomes eligible for realizing the immortality of the self.
The unreal has no being and the real never ceases to exist.

Only the material body is perishable; the embodied atma within is indestructible,incomprehensible &eternal.The atma is neither born nor does it ever die;nor having once existed,does it ever cease to be.The atma is without birth,eternal, changeless &ancient.

Death is certain for one who has been born,& rebirth is inevitable for one who has died. One should not lament over the inevitable.
All created beings are unmanifest b4 birth,manifest in life,& again unmanifest on death. So why grieve?

For a warrior, there is no better engagement than fighting for upholding of righteousness.

Fight for the sake of duty, treating alike pleasure and pain, loss and gain, victory and defeat. Fulfilling your responsibility in this way, you will never incur sin.

Hitherto, I have explained to you Sankhya Yoga (analytic knowledge) regarding the nature of the atma. Now I(Bhagwan Krishna) reveal Buddhi Yoga (the yoga of intellect). When you work with such understanding, you will be freed from the bondage of karma.

Intellect of those who are on this path is resolute,& their aim is one-pointed.But those irresolute is many-branched
\\W minds deeply attached to worldly pleasures&their intellects bewildered by such things,they r unable to possess the resolute determination for meditation&samadhi

U have a r8 to perform ur prescribed duties,but u r not entitled to the fruits of ur actions.Never consider urself to be the cause of the results of ur activities,nor be attached to inaction.
Be steadfast in the performance of your duty,abandoning attachment to success &failure.

Such equanimity of mind is called Yoga.
Seek refuge in divine knowledge and insight,and discard reward-seeking actions that are certainly inferior to works performed with the intellect established in divine knowledge. Miserly are those who seek to enjoy the fruits of their works.

The wise endowed with the equanimity of intellect,abandon attachment to the fruits of actions, which bind one to the cycle of life & death. By working in such consciousness, they attain the state beyond all suffering.
When your intellect crosses the quagmire of delusion,

you will then acquire indifference to what has been heard and what is yet to be heard.

When one discards all selfish desires and cravings of the senses that torment the mind, and becomes satisfied in the realization of the self, such a person is said to be one of steady wisdom.

One whose mind remains undisturbed amidst misery,not crave for pleasure,& is free from attachment,fear&anger is a sage of steady wisdom
One who remains unattached under all conditions&is neither delighted by good fortune nor dejected by tribulation,is a sage w/ perfect knowledge.

Attachment leads to desire, and from desire arises anger.
Anger leads to clouding of judgment, which results in bewilderment of the memory. When the memory is bewildered, the intellect gets destroyed; and when the intellect is destroyed, one is ruined.

But one who controls the mind, and is free from attachment and aversion, even while using the objects of the senses, attains the grace of Bhagawan.

By divine grace comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and the intellect of such a person of tranquil mind soon becomes steady.

An undisciplined person,who has not controlled the mind&senses,can neither have a resolute intellect nor meditation.There is no peace,who cannot meditate;therefore unhappy

One who is unmoved despite of desirable objects attains peace,not the person who strives to satisfy desire

Such is the state of an enlightened atma that having attained it, one is never again deluded. Being established in this consciousness even at the hour of death, one is liberated from the cycle of life and death and attains oneness with Brahman.

Two paths leading to enlightenment path of
•knowledge,for those inclined toward contemplation
•work for those inclined toward action
One cannot achieve freedom from karmic reaction by merely abstaining frm work,nor can one attain perfect knowledge by mere physical renunciation

Those who restrain action,while continuing to dwell on sense objects in the mind,delude themselves,& are hypocrites.
But those karma yogis who engage the organs of action in working without attachment, are superior.
You should thus perform ur prescribed duties(action>>>inaction)

By ceasing activity, even your bodily maintenance will not be possible.
Perform actions as a matter of duty, for by working without being attached to the fruits,one attains the Supreme.

Wise should inspire the ignorant also to do their prescribed work.

Performing all works as an offering to Bhagwan Krishna,free from desire &selfishness,& with mental grief departed.
Abiding by these teachings,with faith and free from cavil,r released from the bondage of KARMA.

Arjuna:”Why a person commit sinful acts, even unwillingly?”

Ans: It is lust alone,due to passion,transformed into anger.
(As sinful as all-devouring enemy in the world) One’s knowledge gets shrouded by that(desire/anger),which is never satisfied.
Hence, in the very beginning bring the senses under control,& slay this enemy(lust/desire).

The 4th Chapter is the 1st time where Krishna begins to reveal his divine nature to Arjuna.
To protect the righteous,to annihilate the wicked,& to reestablish the principles of dharma,I (Bhagwan Krishna)appear on this earth,age after age.

Those who understand the divine nature of these births,upon leaving the body,do not have to take birth again but come to my eternal abode.
The four categories of occupations were created by him according to people’s qualities and activities.

Krishna first tried to narrate Gita to Duryodhana. But because of his nature,he tells Krishna “I know what is dharma(righteousness),but I am not inclined to it.I know wht is adharma (unrighteousness),but I can’t get rid of it”.

Content w/ whatever gain comes &free from envy,beyond the dualities of life.They are not bound by their actions, even while performing all kinds of activities.
Since they perform all actions as a yajna to bhagawan, they are freed from all karmic reactions.

In the light of that knowledge,you will see that all living beings are parts of the supreme &are within Bhagwan.

Even those who are considered the most immoral of all sinners can cross over this ocean of material existence by seating themselves in the raft of divine knowledge.