Book Summary : My Gita By Devdutt Pattanaik

Sanjaya narrates the beginning of the Mahabharata and highlights the battle field to Dhritarashtra. Dhritarashtra gives the battle field name Kurukshetra as Dharmakshetra. Krishna guides Arjuna out of confusion to give a path for knowledge and tells Arjuna to fight for rights And justice.

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Described the concept of dehi and deha as atma and body. Brief description of our rebirth concept, where each person is here before and will return again after death. Different religion Books describe, different concepts of life after death. As long as we resist reality and not discover immortal we go here lifetime to lifetime.

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Describes how four divisions of the world as Humans, Animals, Plants, Elements experience there lifes on the earth. With the help of imaginary number as 0 and infinity concept author describes the concept of immortality. At end of the chapter krishna says simply do your work and leave the result to me.

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Describes the two parts of living things, one is dehi means as atma and second is deha means our body. Atma is an immortal soul that does not experience fear of death and our body experiences fear. In the body how does fear is born? Answer - Sensation received by mind creates emotions. Emotions affects mind and shap as concept. In absence of concept there is born of fear.

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Describes the consequences from our actions. Every action has consequences and creates circumstances we have to face. Karma says, Action is good or bad as well as Reaction is also be good or bad explaining it using different examples one for understanding like krishna kills kansa that is good but Kansas father Jarasandha burns Mathura to ground that is bad. Krishna says you have to control the action alone not the fruit of the action.

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Describes the meaning of Dharma and Adharma. To empathize is dharma involves punya and Failure of empathize is adharma involves paap. Krishna says whenever humanity forgets dharma I will manifest in a new avatar and envokes humanity in everyone.

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Refers to nishkam karma which means to do work without expecting the reciprocation. The things are explain with the help of Yagna where Svaha means to 'I give you' and Tathastu refers to exchange.

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Refers to journey from yoga to yagna from yoga we connect to outer body and from yagna we feel the inner soul.There are eight steps to make the mind connects to atma Yama, Niyama, Asena, Pratyahara, Pranyam, Dharna, Dhyana and Samadhi.

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Discusses Asuras and Devas, Asura refers to tapasya and Devas refers to Yagna.Some people runs The comparison of people in bad times think of God and at good times they forget the god. Yoga enables us to understand success and failure equally. We better focus on journeys not the outcome.

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Discuss on mind. As being human our mind is very turbulent like wind, krishna says that unless the heart feels secured, the head will never receive new ideas. After krishna describe himself as 33 forms as 8 vasus, 12 aditya, 11 Maruttas, 2 ashwins. To build our potential expand our mind and discover infinity

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Vanara, nara and narayana these three word describe the journey of life. The meanings are animal, human and divine. Journey from vanara to nara to narayana that discovery of atma and secure mind. Afterwards description of hanuman why it's so powerful and intelligent.

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Fourty Names of krishna address in gita. By 2000 years how the purana comes into picture and in that description of Bhagavata Purana was described. Judging the person for his/her bad work to feel guilty, focus on preparing them to face the consequences of their action is better one.

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Exploration of three guna ventures from bhakti to gyana. All the things depend on guna, guna further divided into three guna as tamas, rahas and sattva. Tamas seen in elements until and unless external force act it remains steady, rajasn seen in plants and animals they overcome hunger and fear and sattva seen in humans it includes trust, empathize

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Describes how property minds in living things. Plants depend on element animals depend on plants and animals and humans to both. The beautiful way to describe relationships and transactions was given as if me and you come that is in relationship and mine and yours comes that is in transactions. The person should be identified by dehi that means within not from deha property that it has.

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Comparison is one of things that we do between us and others called maya. Chapters describe different instances of how maya impact our mind and imagination. Popular sanskrit phrase 'Jagad mithya, brahma satya! 'means that the world is a mirage and only divinity is real.

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The chapter is based on moha that means attraction towards the property. After exploring things, a person can do what he can do, not the things that are never done or not to do in his life. For example the Mango tree can give us Mango not Banana.

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The chapter refers to the generous nature of humans when humans achieve the moksha that makes humans also be generous. A beautiful example about a generous relationship between krishna and sudama. As krishna is king and has maternal property from his generous nature he treats the poor sudama very nicely.

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God teaches us what will be left at the end of the day using one small verse, Arjuna, there is nothing in the three worlds that I need to do or gain. Yet I work, for if I don't, others won't, and I will be the cause of confusion and destruction of all that has been created.-Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, verses 22.