Bhagavad Gita: I am reading it for several reasons. One being the structured accessible opportunity I have been offered to study vedic literarture and one of the most revered, inspiring and cited books. It has been read and cited by Albert Einsten, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Herman Hesse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aldous Huxley, Rudolph Steiner and Nikola Tesla. Somewhere it is claimed that 650 million people hold it as a sacred book.
It is the inspiration for the transformative communication classes taught by David Wolf, to me being a very enlightened equanimous way of being true to oneself.
The concepts of higher consciousness, responsibility, eternal soul, ego, material nature are explored within.
I realized I also read this book partially for the same reason some people travel. To learn about others' ways of thinking, talking, valuing, feeling, perceiving, living. I am traveling to an entire fashion of thought so different from the western judeochristian style, and I resonate with it's emphasis on our consciousness and the necessity of discarding the ego and the material and how we can live a life that is truly devoted to self-realization - becoming truly who you are and removing the layers we have adopted from society and family and other sources.
Maybe the biggest reason: this class reminds me to think and focus daily on spiritual life, consciousness and the non-material. I have been noticing the material aspects more in day to day life. I experience that I take things less seriously in this way. It helps me ask, why I am doing things each day. Do I do a thing for my ego? To help others? To look good? To serve God?
