[Advaita-l] Why did Krishna said that he was unable to repeat Gita?

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 9:30 PM, D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Are we sure that Anu Gita is not an interpolation.
>

Shankaracharya has cited verses from the Anugītā in the introduction to the
Bh.G.Bhāṣya.

‘स हि धर्मः सुपर्याप्तो ब्रह्मणः पदवेदने’ (अश्व. १६-१२) इति *अनुगीतासु* ।
तत्रैव चोक्तम् — ‘नैव धर्मी न चाधर्मी न चैव हि शुभाशुभी । ’ (अश्व. १९-७) ‘यः
स्यादेकासने लीनस्तूष्णीं किञ्चिदचिन्तयन्’ (अश्व. १९-१) ॥ इति ‘ज्ञानं
संन्यासलक्षणम्’ (अश्व. ४३-२६) इति च ।

The concerned chapter in the MB is titled:

अर्जुनेन कृष्णंप्रति पूर्वोपदिष्टगीतार्थस्य विस्मरणोक्त्या
पुनस्तदुपदेशप्रार्थना।। 1 ।। कृष्णेनार्जुनंप्रति स्वस्मै
ब्राह्मणोक्तसिद्धकाश्यपसंवादानुवादः।। 2 ।।

So, we cannot suspect its interpolation at least till his times. Of course
the possibility of interpolation is forever there for the whole of the
Mahabharata since no one knows for sure what was its size at its inception.
There are several versions, sizes, of the BG itself, dating to
pre-Shānkaran times.  For example there has been a 'Kāshmīra pāṭha' with
very old commentaries.


regards
vs

> regards,
> Sarma.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > Dear Shashwata Shastriji,
> >
> > I never said that the Lord expressed his inability to be yoga-yukta. He
> took the avatara for a divine purpose and not to be yoga-yukta at anytime
> at the call of Arjuna, whom the Lord rebuked for forgetting all that he had
> been taught. Further, the Lord very well knew that Vedavyasa would
> propagate to the world what all the Lord taught to Arjuna.
> >
> > I am neither speak for the Lord nor can claim that I understand all his
> maya. I just expressed what I understood as to why the Lord did not repeat
> the Gita discourse. Lord has his own way of working. Vedavyasa told that
> the Lord could have averted the curse of Gandhari if he wanted to  and
> protected the Yadus from getting destroyed, but he did not do that.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sunil KB
> > --------------------------------------------
> > On Fri, 10/28/16, Shashwata Shastri <shashwata.unimas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Why did Krishna said that he was unable to
> repeat Gita?
> >  To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com>, "A
> discussion group for Advaita Vedanta" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> >
> >  Date: Friday, October 28, 2016, 6:53 PM
> >
> >  Pranam
> >  Sunil ji,
> >
> >  Svayam Bhagwan
> >  is unable to achieve yoga-yukta state again? That
> >  doesn't sound right. Who has subjugated yoga-maya, who
> >  is by born jivanmukta he has issues while acquiring youga
> >  yukta state? Isn't there a mystery behind it?
> >
> >  Best Regards,
> >
> >
> >  Shashwata Chowdhury
> >
> >  On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at
> >  9:45 PM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
> vedanta.org>
> >  wrote:
> >  Namaste
> >  Praveenji,
> >
> >
> >
> >  The Lord also said that he delivered the discourse in
> >  Yoga-yukta state.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Kind regards,
> >
> >
> >
> >  ------------------------------ --------------
> >
> >  On Thu, 10/27/16, Praveen R.
> >  Bhat <bhatpraveen at gmail.com>
> >  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >   Subject: Re: [Advaita-l] Why did Krishna said that he was
> >  unable to repeat Gita?
> >
> >   To: "Sunil Bhattacharjya" <sunil_bhattacharjya at yahoo.com
> >  >, "A discussion group for Advaita Vedanta"
> >  <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
> >  vedanta.org>
> >
> >   Date: Thursday, October 27, 2016, 2:10 AM
> >
> >
> >
> >   Namaste Sunilji,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at
> >
> >   11:06 AM, Sunil Bhattacharjya via
> >  Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-
> >  vedanta.org>
> >
> >   wrote:
> >
> >   Lord Krishna did not
> >
> >   forget Gita. How cam he? Please do not go by the
> >  translation
> >
> >   and better read what the Lord said to Arjuna as given in
> >  the
> >
> >   Sanskrit verses.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   The relevant
> >
> >   part of the verse reads so in Sanskrit: न च
> >
> >   साऽद्य पुनर्भूयः
> >
> >   स्मृतिर्मे
> >
> >   सम्भविष्यति । The explanation
> >  may
> >
> >   not have been given, but the translation is not
> >  incorrect,
> >
> >   since it literally reads as: "And now, that
> >
> >   recollection of mine [regarding the narration] is not
> >
> >   possible".
> >
> >
> >
> >   Kind rgds,
> >
> >   --Praveen R. Bhat
> >
> >   /* Through
> >
> >   what should one know That owing to which all this is
> >  known!
> >
> >   [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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