Rubik Gita: Recent Episodes
Saurabh Sikka
Solving the Bhagavad Gita like a Rubik Cube. That's right folks! Step right up and solve the mysteries once and for all! Too many confusing twists and turns in the narrative of the Bhagavad Gita? Is Wisdom better than Action, as Arjuna asks Krishna? Or is Devotion the final common denominator? Why does Krishna refer to God in the Third Person in some verses, and in the First Person in others? Who really wrote the Bhagavad Gita and why? Why is it impossible to overcome the Brahmins? So many questions!! Of the thousands who endeavor, hardly one finds the Truth. Subscribe now!
This is the second special episode in honor of my grandfather, and spiritual guide Indranath Anand, and his 109th birth anniversary on the 4th of November, 2021. This is in his voice, recorded more than 30 years ago on a cassette tape and now extracted to mp3. This is Side...
This is a special episode in honor of my grandfather, and spiritual guide Indranath Anand. This is in his voice, recorded more than 30 years ago on a cassette tape and now extracted to mp3. This is Side A of the cassette.
In this chapter, the Vedantists inserted the Yoga of Analytical Intelligence, using common sense to overcome the letter of the law, of multiple scriptures. That is the core of the chapter. There are preceding verses explaing the concept of Brahman (Spirit) and it’s characteristics of Immortality and Ummutability that emerge...
This is the original Gita, the first edition inserted into Jaya. The conversation between Arjuna and Krishna is straightforward, and makes perfect sense. The battle is about to begin and Arjuna the Warrior Prince has lost his nerve. Krishna puts forth arguments directing him to action. This text has few...
We start following the narrative and discover the points at which it goes off track, contradicts itself and reveals not one, not two, but three different Krishnas hiding in plain sight.
In this episode we take a look at the geographical and historical setting of the Mahabharata, and the Origins and Evolution of Brahminism in the region.
It all started with a desire to read the entire conversation between Arjuna and Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, from end to end, without purports, as it were. I didn’t want to know anyone’s explanations, I just wanted to know what the two talked about, how the conversation went....