After living a worldly life without fulfilling our true prupose, we should admit that our knowledge about life is full of ignorance, arrogance, pride and vanity. Even sage Narad could not overcome his sorrow in spite of the fact that he was an expert in all the sciences and arts. So he wisely approached the great saint Sanatkumar for the real knowledge. Similarly, we should, as Arjuna does in this prayer, surrender to the Lord or Gitaji for the real solutions to our real problems that cannot be resolved within a life of ignorance, or maya.

We are all seeking peace, joy and love, which are free and available in abundance without efforts just like air, water and light without which we could not live. Dogmas blind followers and failing to learn from our own experiences indicate that our discriminative faculty, or buddhi, has become dull. Arjuna admits so. Lust, greed and desire for name, power and fame blind a man whether he is a dharma guru or a worldly person.

Humility alone is the qualification required for our ultimate joy, peace and love. We should therefore not seek the horns of a rabbit. Let us not nurture vanity through vain education but use it to achieve our goal of liberation in this very life. Purity of heart, humility and obedience or loyalty to the laws of nature will provide us with everything we need to experience the Truth.

We should note Arjuna's wisdom in surrendering to the Lord for no man, however great, will be saved from sorrow and death unless he has totally surrendered to the will of the Lord (Gita 18:65,66) through purity of heart.

Let us pray and learn from this prayer for our own good.

-- Swami Radhanandaji