Bhagavad Gita Purpose
James Kim
UGC 111
The Bhagavad Gita’s purpose is to deliver mankind from the shadows of material existence. Each and every one of us has adversities in many ways. We try to exist in the material world but the atmosphere of this material world ceases to exist. Our existence is eternal and is not to be threatened by nonexistence. Lord Krishna says that for the soul there is neither birth nor death at any point. It has not come, does not come, and will not come into being. It is unborn, eternal, and primeval. The body and the soul are two different entities. The body is subjected to six transformations, starting from birth and ending at death. The soul does not go through these changes because it is not born and takes on a material body. When
UGC 111
The Bhagavad Gita’s purpose is to deliver mankind from the shadows of material existence. Each and every one of us has adversities in many ways. We try to exist in the material world but the atmosphere of this material world ceases to exist. Our existence is eternal and is not to be threatened by nonexistence. Lord Krishna says that for the soul there is neither birth nor death at any point. It has not come, does not come, and will not come into being. It is unborn, eternal, and primeval. The body and the soul are two different entities. The body is subjected to six transformations, starting from birth and ending at death. The soul does not go through these changes because it is not born and takes on a material body. When