Anu Gita

Anu Gita de Shri Krishna (addendum à la Bhagavad Gita)

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Excerpts from Anugîtâ, an exposé on sâmkhya and yoga doctrines in the Mahâbhârata by Guy Vincent is as follows :

The Anugîtâ doesn't take place in the same setting: Arjuna has a rest in his palace, and confesses he has forgotten what Krishna has taught him. Finally, it will be noted that the Anugîtâ remains centred on the human means of salvation.

The Anugîtâ, based on the sacrifice’s rules, is more qualified for giving a practical method of progression (describing stages) than the Bhagavadgîtâ that develops asceticism and divine revelation in what they have of ecstatic.

The first discussion is about rebirth and the way to final emancipation. But Kashyapa’s descendant wants to know, how the soul leaves the body and how it grows heavy with the weight of the acts.

The second discussion takes its origin in a Brahman’s wife worrying about her lot hereafter. What kind of salvation is waiting for her ? The Brahman then reminds that the Absolute is inside everybody. From there come the five breaths. The five breaths argue also between themselves (among the five, which one is the most important ?); the discussion concerns the life to be lead and the difficulty to understand within the forest of the knowledge.

The discussion ends on the fact that there isn't an single way to final emancipation, but a myriad of them. Krishna then reveals to Arjuna that his mind (manas) is the Brahman and his intelligence (buddhi) the Brahman’s wife. All the truths are not understandable by the intelligence only.

The third discussion takes its origin in a very brief question a disciple asks his Master: « The best, what is it ? ». The answer gets organised on the theme of the components of the human being, the three tendencies (guna), which act inside ourselves: Virtue (sattva), Desire (rajas) and Instinct (tamas).

The discussion then continues, taking up typical notions of sâmkhya, explaining how the world is built from the Unmanifested (avyakta) to the Great Soul (mahat), then to the self-awareness (ahamkara), then to the material and subtle elements. The Sâmkhya is a dualistic system, separating the mind from the matter : the matter spreads in order that, at the end, the mind does no more need it, and discovers its profound independence.

Finally the discussion ends by an invitation to meditate.

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder acharya of The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), had trifurcated the BhaktiVedanta into 3 categories if executed and applied in daily practical life - Bhagavad Gita as preliminary studies, Srimad Bhagavatam as intermediate studies and Chaitanya Charitramitra/Ujjvala-Nilamani as advanced studies for kaliyuga.

Other direct words of Krishna are found in Uddhav Gita, Uttara Gita, Anu Gita and in Shrimad Bhagavatam Canto 10.

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