The Song of the God: Bhagvat Geeta

Bhagvat Geeta (also spelled Bhagvadgita) literally means ‘God Song’. It is the guidance / sermon Lord Krishna gave to Arjuna on the battled field to Arjuna and makes as a segment of the tome Mahabharata. Bhagvat Geeta has 18 chapters. The last chapter deals with the after-world.

Sushila ji at AZIMVTH decided to commit to the 18th chapter to memory. She started working upon this project in June 2022 and by April 2023 has memorised the 78 shlokas that make chapter 18. Being 80 plus years old, memory plays tricks. Chanting and committing any thing becomes a challenge.

There is no special reason why she chose to organise the 78 shloka in 6 parts. It is printed in her copy of Bhagvat Geeta this way. The following audio link takes to the 6 audio files.

https://on.soundcloud.com/7i7hY

Part 1: Shloka 1 to 11 Chapter 18

Part 1: Shloka 12 to 26 Chapter 18

Part 3: Shloka 27 to 41 Chapter 18

Part 4: Shloka 42 to 56 Chapter 18

Part 5: Shloka 57 to 71 Chapter 18

Part 6: Shloka 72 to 78 Chapter 18

More on Bhagvadgita

Lets Read The BhagvadGita
https://azimvth.org/2020/06/16/lets-read-the-bhagvadgita/

Gita Jayanti and the Agile Vajra of Yoga
https://azimvth.org/2019/12/07/gita-jayanti-and-the-agile-vajra-of-yoga/

The Song of the God: Bhagvat Geeta
https://azimvth.org/2023/04/19/the-song-of-the-god-bhagvat-geeta/

Goethe, Shakespeare, and Kalidasa on names

In the play ‘Abhigyan-Shakuntalam’ of Kalidasa (400 C.E.), King Dushyanta forgets the name and identity of Shakuntala. The name is the identity. However, Shakespeare (1564), the Kalidasa of the West, had a different view on names in his play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Goethe (1749) doesn’t agree with Shakespeare in his play ‘Faust’.

“Juliet:

Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Romeo:

I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”

Goethe doesn’t follow this argument of Shakespeare as seen his play ‘Faust’, the following epigram based on Kalidasa’s ‘Abhigyan-Shakuntalam’.

“Wilt thou have charms and delights,
Wilt thou have strength and support,
Wilt thou with one short word encompass the
earth and the heaven,
All is said if I name only, Shakuntla, thee.”

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