What is the ideal path to live according to the Bhagavad Gita As It Is?

From Sushant Kulkarni

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any other question? Hare Krishna question from Sushant Kulkarni does the Bhagavad Gita as it is provide an ideal path to live our life if yes, how? answer, yes the Bhagavad Gita as it is, tells us the same path that is told by Bhagavad Gita and Krishna and that is mayyarpitmano buddhir mam eva isyasya samshayah Shri Prabhupada in the introduction describes that the art of art of living is actually to fix our mind and intelligence in Krishna if our subtle bodies absorb in Krishna then we will be living in Krishna and this world and we will return back to Krishna eventually eternal, for eternal life with him so the whole purpose of the Bhagavad Gita is to change our consciousness, not necessarily change our actions so there are actions, there are conceptions and then there are affections so our actions are at the physical level, our conceptions are at the mental level and our affections ultimately come from the soul, because the soul is the source of all consciousness and includes all emotions so the ultimate purpose of Bhagavad Gita is to change our affections from this world to Krishna who is beyond this world now to change our affections like that, what we primarily need is to change our conceptions as long as we think that this world is real and the happiness that this world promises is real then our affections will be caught up in this world, but when we understand this world is temporary and that it can be a source of bonding and suffering and beyond this world there is an eternal world which is the actual abode of happiness and which is where we belong, then we gradually redirect our affections from this world to the world beyond towards Krishna so for that we need philosophical education and purification and that philosophical education and purification that is largely at the level of the subtle body so most education doesn’t necessarily change our actions, but it changes our conceptions and even purification it involves changing our conceptions of what is enjoyable, what is not enjoyable and then affection can be redirected so the essence of the art of living is not some that the Bhagavad Gita is not something specific at the physical level, Arjuna was a warrior, some of us may be students some of us may be a business person, some of us may be software engineers we don’t have to change that the ideal way of living is that whatever we are doing we do it as offering to Krishna and for making that as offering to Krishna we have to offer our subtle body first to Krishna, that’s why we have our regular sadhana, we study scripture, we chant Hare Krishna and by this we offer our heart to Krishna we offer our subtle body and mind to Krishna, through that we want to offer our heart to Krishna, so the more we are able to do this you know changing and spiritualizing the focus of our subtle body the more we will be spiritual even while we are living in the material world and by this we will gradually be able to redirect our affection from matter to Krishna, so initially we don’t have so much affection for Krishna and that’s why it’s not easy to think about Krishna and that’s why fixing the mind and willingness of Krishna are a discipline, so we study about the philosophy of Krishna, we call Krishna a discipline, we chant Hare Krishna as a discipline but by doing this our affection for Krishna will gradually awaken and then once that affection for Krishna becomes strong then our conceptions and our actions will become aligned with that, so we don’t have to change our external actions of course we may have to give sinful activities but actions in terms of our worldly professions we don’t necessarily have to change them, we can continue to them but change our conceptions and change our affections and then we can move forward on the spiritual path even while we are living in this world so the essential message of the Bhagavad Gita is to change our conceptions and our affections and harmonize all of them, harmonize our actions with them that is the best way to live so that we can live eternally with Krishna after this life. Thank you. So what is the