Bhagavad Gita - Class 050 - Chapter 02 Slokas 00-00 - Introduction - Class taken on 21 May 2023

When do we get Sokham / sorrow? How is sorrow different from attachment and delusion? How often we get sorrow? what are some of the reasons for our sokham? How do we generally address sorrow? How does Bhagavad Gita address sorrow? Why is Bhagavad Gita relevant for so many years? Is there a root cause for all the sorrows of the world? Is Bhagavad Gita limited to certain caste / gender / age / stage of life? If Gita is relevant why do most of them not come to study Gita / Vedanta? Does experience and knowledge go together? What do we need to do to discover first? How do we identify samsara? What is the turning point? Why do we ignore indications? What is Samsara? What do we do to remove the problems of samsara? What is required to give us the desire to come out of Samsara? Why are not many people interested? What are the 4 steps to vedanta? Why do we not accept helplessness? Why do we need a Guru? What are the 2 qualities required for the study of Shastras / Vedanta? What are the 3 points that we learn from Bhagavan - Arjuna Samvada? What happens when we advise without being solicited? What happens when we advise to people in sorrow? Why should lower-level people not advise people in higher level? Why is it better to keep quiet? Why is the second chapter of Gita important? What is Upakrama bhaaga What is Upasamhara bhaaga? What are the 4 major topics covered in the second chapter?