Gita Equips The Thoughtful To Become More Faithful And The Faithful To Become More Thoughtful 18.63

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Thank you The Gita equips the thoughtful to become more faithful and the faithful to become more thoughtful often thoughtfulness and faithfulness are seen to not go together people feel that if they think deeply then many of the things that we are called on to have faith in in religion will be found to be unreasonable and thus the faith will get undermined and similarly if we have to have faith then we need to stop thinking and just accept that is the idea that is sometimes there in some people and it is true that sometimes some religious people who have faith they are sentimental, they are gullible and they also get misled they end up believing things which are unbelievable and which cause them to be exploited also so while the concern is valid still the Bhagavad Gita offers a resourceful integration of both things it is through and through a philosophical discussion and is primarily going to kindle thoughtfulness because to understand its message, to understand its reasoning to make sense of the conclusions it is arriving at it requires thought at the same time the Bhagavad Gita is also a book which draws towards a personal theistic conclusion it draws towards a conclusion of a personal deity who is supreme and who works towards helping everyone get elevated what this means is that actually there is a clear element of faith the Bhagavad Gita talks about Shraddha several times and the underlying unifying theme is that while everyone needs faith but the faith needn’t be sentimental the faith can be rational, the faith can be based on reflection and this integration of the two is seen towards the end in the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna doesn’t give commandments Krishna gives choices and consequences and yet Krishna also calls for surrender which definitely involves faith so for example 1863 says and then 1866 says Surrender to me I’ll protect you from all sinful reactions so faith can be the conclusion that we arrive at through thoughtfulness and thus the thoughtful people can become more faithful that is what the Bhagavad Gita’s concluding flow of thought demonstrates and faith can be enhanced and strengthened by thought so the faithful can become more thoughtful so that when there are challenges internally from their own intelligence from their skeptical side or externally from others skeptical side they will be equipped to deal with those challenges and thus people can move forward in doing what needs to be done and growing in their spiritual life so the Gita is a shelter for the head and the heart it stimulates thoughtfulness of the head and it stimulates the faithfulness of the heart and in this way the synergy of the head and the heart can propel us powerfully on the journey to spiritual growth so thus whatever be our personal disposition right now we all can find something in the Gita to help us move forward