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What exactly is Bhagavat Gita? Bhagawan Krishna delivered a long and learned speech to Arjuna, the ace, incomparable archer of the day, who, all of a sudden, shuddered to think that he would kill his kith and kin, elders and superiors for the superfluous gain of a lost kingdom. Krishna cleared his confusion, dispelled his doubts and instilled in him the primacy, priority, pivotality and philosophy of ""present assignment"" in particular and ""duty"" in general. Arjuna asked scores of questions, raised reasonable riddles and Krishna answered them intelligently, eminently, eloquently, elegantly, in an equanimous, tranquil manner. As such, Gita is the dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna. Krishna, some say, took 45 minutes to tell Gita. While 574 slokas are uttered by Krishna, Arjuna spoke 84 verses. That Gita is great is not said by Krishna, although He has said in chapter X, verse 37 that Vyasa, the Gita composer, is the primus inter pares sage. Gita has been greatly glorified by a great many sages, scholars, critics, activists, reformers, researchers, teachers, preachers-Indian as well as foreign-from Shankaracharya, Ramanuja, Gnaneshwar, Aurobindo, Vivekananda to J K Krishnamurthy, Anni Besant, Max Muller, Edwin Arnold, S Radhakrishnan etc. It was Krishna's lullaby to Arjuna, not induce the latter to sleep but to incite, excite him to fight, to the call of duty, to awaken him to the importance, inevitability, inescapability of duty, one's duty. It chimes with popular Sanskrit moral, Akrtuty naiva karttavyam pranatyagoapisamsisthe Na cha krutyam parityajyameshah dharmah santanah.

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Hullasa Behera, a member of Odisha Administrative Service till march, 2010, did his MA in English from Utkal university, Bhubaneswar, but read Odia language and literature extensively and Sanskrit literature to some extent from school days. Born in a Mahanadi-bank village surrounded by plenitude of panoramic, pastoral beauty, being a student of philosophy, poetry, classics, puranas and epics more informally and less formally; HB was blessed to be a writer whose flair for writing in Odia and English flourished furtively. And as a writer he could lay his hands on novel, biography, Bhagavat Gita, translation, pithy comments for pocketbooks with equal ease and enthusiasm. He is lazy, light-hearted, humorous, honest, harmonious as a person, light, leisurely, witty, intense, imaginative as a writer. Examples from his pocketbooks attest to this-Love is the sensation that comes instantlyand then comes incessantly.The last thing in love is the first thingI love you.A lost cause is a must winnerin a different time, in a different place Books by the same author:1-- Pala Bhuta [Scarecrow] Odia novel, 1988, Books and Books, Cuttack, Odisha, India.2-- Biju Patnaik: Legendary Pilot and Live-wire Politician, 1998, 3-- 50 Flowers from Bhagavat Gita: A Solace Against Frightening Materialism, 1988 Pustak Mahal, Darya Ganj, New Delhi, India.4-- 199 Love Thoughts for Millennium lovers Millennium movers, pocketbook, 19995 --One Hundred Ninety-nine Quotes For everybody, for every occasion, pocketbook, 19996 --God Words, Good Words For the Millennium and Onwards, pocketbook, 2005 Pustak Mahal, Darya Ganj, New Delhi, India. 7-- Raman Maharshi Kathita Galpamala, Odia, 2014 [Stories Spoken by Raman Maharshi] [ translated from Tales and Stories by Maharshi Raman: by Joan Greenblatt] Aum Books, Puri, Odisha, India.8--- Raman Maharshi: Nirava Sadhanara Amlana Aloka, Odia [ Biography], 2015 [ The Undimmed Light of Silent Sadhana] Isha, Aum Foundation, Puri, Odisha, India.9--- Domestic Violence In the Abode of The Lord, 2022, [ translation of Laxmi Puran by Balaram Das] Aum Books, Puri, Odisha, India.

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