Scientific Analysis of 'The Bhagavad Gita' on God Reflecting Ancient Indian Culture

Dr. Susil Kumar Mohanty

Abstract: The mark of a human being is to get out of existential problems by using discretion based on intelligence. To lose one?s bearing when in difficulty is comparable to a blind man losing his stick. In today?s world, we face grim situations arising from conflicts among various religions. Conflicts afflict the whole world. We must use our sharp intellect based on wisdom, not precision weapons, to escape this dilemma. Against this backdrop, a Medical Doctor, Dr Susil Kumar Mohanty, has authored this booklet for the common good of humanity. His thought could have been a voluminous book. However, this booklet offers satisfaction comparable to reading a lengthy treatise on the same subject. A doctor with a scientific bent of mind has chosen this powerful antidote to emancipate us from this dilemma. Analyzing scientific progress, the author has emphasized the discovery of unity in diversity and plurality. The discovery of agreement among the majority is potent thinking. He has paved the way for science and religion to progress by emphasizing unity based on Swami Vivekanand?s teachings. Quoting the eternal message of Srimad Bhagavad Gita, he impresses upon us that God is beyond all dilemmas, discriminations and diversities and transcends this ordinary worldly existence. God transcends this world even though we feel His presence all around us. It hardly matters whatever names we suggest for this transcendental unity. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa has said that in whatever name one calls God, He readily responds whenever one prays with love and devotion. Being supernatural, He is unsmeared, spotless, formless and impervious to all worldly affairs. Being the source of all peccancy (vikara) also, He is not bounded by any of them, the way the sun with all its rays is open to all. Based on this principle, Dr. Mohanty has marked a path to solve dilemmas arising from interreligious conflicts. The world feels God?s manifestation; He is present in all religions leading to Him, and a life guided by religious principles feels his presence. But since God is beyond this worldly existence, He is not entirely bound by any particular religion. All religions, both past and future, might fulfil the lofty aims of human lives, but God is detached from and uninvolved in these actions of religions. We pray that let all religions be adored equally in today?s society and let them coexist with equal respect under one roof. I express my heartfelt affection and respect to Dr Susil Kumar Mohanty and wish everyone to count his doctrine as a specially valued admitted truth. May his understanding be a harbinger of good luck, happiness and adoration.

Keywords: Bhagavad Gita, spirituality and science, ancient Indian culture, cosmic energy, philosophical insights