"The Journey Through The Twelve Forests" And "The Bhagavad Gita": The Vaishnava Community

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known as the Ban-Yatra. It tells a slightly more true to life
story that has been carried out since the 16th century.
If one were to only read the Gita, they might assume it to be
nothing more than a fairy tale passed down from many generations that told
of a greater being, Vishnu, whose job was to “deliver the holy, destroy the
sin of the sinner, and establish righteousness”(50). It tells how in order
to achieve moksha or the release from the eternal struggle of life, one
must abandon all worldly feelings, ideas, and beliefs so that they can find
this new eternal peace. The Gita tells that in order to truly achieve
release you can not try to understand the incomprehensible, grasp the
intangible, nor construct the unthinkable, but rather focus more on the
Atman, the state of nonsoulness so that you may truly reach the highest
level of Hindu living. After finding out all of these facts, a person
might ask himself or herself “How is it possible to give up everything and
still ...

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