YOGABHARATI

Raghuramji’s talk on “ Indian perspective of Stress – Ancient wisdom” in the recently held Seminar  A short summary The talk begins with wondering that stress is a very recent term that has gained its importance in the recent decades due to our lifestyle. How this recent phenomenon could have been addressed in our ancient texts? Bhagavad Gita was taken as an example text to understand if the text offers any solution related to stress.  In the very first chapter of Bhagavad Gita, let us examine the state in which Arjuna was, when he refuses to fight. Arjuna says, “Krishna, my body is shivering, limbs are shivering, mind is reeling. I am unable to hold the Gandiva” .  All these symptoms that Arjuna describes relate to todays anxiety neurosis, a psychological condition that needs to be treated. All that SriKrishna says in Bhagavad Gita can be related as a counselling given to Arjuna to overcome this psychological condition . At the end of Gita, Arjuna says that his mind