Is the Bhagavad Gita relevant today?

Large portions of Bhagavad Gita deal with activities and the resulting happiness or distress. As long as people are active and experience happiness and distress, then Bhagavad Gita is going to be relevant.

Bhagavad Gita contains knowledge. The sort of knowledge which is important for human beings. Biology, chemistry and physics are also areas of knowledge. They will always be relevant and because of that there is constant work to update and improve them. But there is a dearth of knowledge in modern education regarding life, the self, consciousness, happiness, distress and what results from what actions. Due to this lacking, knowing how to be peaceful and satisfied is not an area modern education covers. Neither does it tell us anything about morality and meaning.

Since these areas are important and relevant to everyone, perhaps the most important and relevant, there is never going to be a time when Bhagavad Gita is not relevant. The less Bhagavad Gita is understood, the more relevant it is because without clear knowledge on how to act, society will derail itself and the casualties will keep mounting.

Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what is inaction. Now I shall explain to you what action is, knowing which you shall be liberated from all misfortune. Bg 4.16

I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both phenomenal and numinous. This being known, nothing further shall remain for you to know. Bg 7.2

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