Swami Yoganandaji’s The Original Bhagavad Gita - 1932 Edition (Volume-1, Chapters 1 to 4)

THE ORIGINAL BHAGAVAD GITA OF YOGANANDAJI (1932 Edition) - (In HIS Original Wordings, As Interpreted by HIM)The greatest Hindu scriptures are the four Vedas. One hundred and eight Upanishads were written, containing the essence of the four Vedas. Six systems of Hindu philosophy, Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Nimansa, etc., contain the essence of the Vedas and Upanishads, and the ''Bhagavad Gita'' is the essence of the six philosophies, 108 Upanishads, and 4 Vedas.The Bhagavad Gita says. “Fight the battle of life, or you will acquire sin.”Chapter 2:33The spiritual interpretation of the above passage is that, unless the soul battles continuously to overcome the consciousness of the flesh by experiencing soul- consciousness in meditation, that soul acquires sin. If the Son of God or the image of God dwelling in flesh, does not fight against the limitations of the flesh, but identifies himself with it. then he invites sorrow. To be in soul-consciousness is to remember the Spirit, but to be in flesh-consciousness is to forget the power of the soul to feel Omnipresence.Through meditation, the soul remembers its home in Omnipresent, Absolute, Blissful Spirit, but after a short meditation the soul goes back again to the remembrance of the troublesome limitations of the body. This sinful cosmic delusion, which produces the body- consciousness, is the root-cause underlying the three-fold physical, mental, and spiritual sorrows of man.