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Why Should We Read Bhagwad Gita?

An Old Farmer Lived On A Farm In The Mountains With His Young Grandson.Each Morning Grandpa Was Up Early Sitting At The Kitchen Table Reading His

Bhagwad Gita. His Grandson Wanted To Be Just Like Him And Tried To ImitateHim In Every Way He Could.

One Day The Grandson Asked, Grandpa! I Try To Read The Bhagwad GitaJust Like You But I Dont Understand It, And What I Do Understand I Forget AsSoon As I Close The Book. What Good Does Reading The Bhagwad Gita Do?

The Grandfather Quietly Turned From Putting Coal In The Stove And Replied,Take This Coal BASKET Down To The River And Bring Me Back A BASKET OfWater.

The Boy Did As He Was Told, But All The Water Leaked Out Before He GotBack To The House.

The Grandfather Laughed And Said, Youll Have To Move A Little Faster NextTime, And Sent Him Back To The River With The BASKET To Try Again.

This Time The Boy Ran Faster, But Again The BASKET Was Empty Before He

Returned Home. Out Of Breath, He Told His Grandfather That It WasImpossible To Carry Water In A BASKET, And He Went To Get A BUCKETInstead.

The Old Man Said, I Dont Want A BUCKET Of Water; I Want A BASKET OfWater. Youre Just Not Trying Hard Enough, And He Went Out The Door ToWatch The Boy Try Again.

At This Point, The Boy Knew It Was Impossible, But, He Wanted To Show HisGrandfather That Even If, He Ran As Fast As He Could, The Water Would LeakOut Before, He Got Back To The House. The Boy Again Dipped The BASKET

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Into River And Ran Hard, But When, He Reached His Grandfather The BASKETWas Again Empty.

Out Of Breath, He Said, See Grandpa, Its Useless!So You Think It Is Useless? The Old Man Said, Look At The BASKET.

The Boy Looked At The BASKET And For The First Time Realized That TheBASKET Was Different. It Had Been Transformed From A Dirty Old CoalBASKET And Was Now Clean, Inside And Out.

Son, Thats What Happens When, You Read The Bhagwad Gita. You Might NotUnderstand Or Remember Everything, But When, You Read It, You Will Be

Changed, Inside And Out. That Is The Work Of GOD In Our Lives. THECLEANSING PROCESS.

SPIRITUAL COMMENTARY

Why Should We Read The Bhagwad Gita, Even If, We Can't Understand EvenOne Sanskrit Word? Why It Is That Such An Ancient Book As The BhagwadGita Has Become So Popular Today?

It Only Proves The Strength Of The Noble Teachings That Are Involved In It,And That These Universal Principles Endure Even Though They Are Expressed

In Different Ways In The Various Philosophic Scriptures Of The World. It Is AnIntensely Practical Book, And In Many Ways One Of The Most Beautiful. ItHelps Us To Understand How We Can Live In Society And Still Make SpiritualValues The Real Motivation Of Our Lives. Because What The Gita Enjoins IsThe Importance Of The Inner Life; That This Is What Motivates Us, And WhatMotivates All Life In The Universe.

Each Of Us Must Find His Way, Each Of Us His Own Path In Life. So Many AreAsking Questions: What Is This Business Of Living All About? How Can WeCome To Terms With Ourselves And Add Richness And Meaning To Our DailyLives?

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