... the seeking for physical immortality is not out of any personal desire but as part of the fulfillment of the grand design of the Divine for which the earth and body was made.
Nothing can be taught because knowledge does not exist outside but within us. What this means is that the Wisdom that has gone into the worlds is there within us as much as it is there within each atom of existence.
Our spiritual ascension does not need a companion, but since life has an inward and an outward movement, a companion at this stage can help through complementarity whereby one of the partner is more inward oriented while the other takes charge of the outward aspects.
A NINE PART SERIES OF REFLECTIONS BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
One of the purposes of the epic is to establish and impress upon the human mind the conception of an ideal humanity. It is this too that makes the epic endure through all the rub and flow of time.
A NINE PART SERIES OF REFLECTIONS BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
Arjuna comes next in the line of great characters in the Mahabharata. He is the hero on the battlefield of Kurukshetra and most importantly the recipient of the great teaching of the Gita directly from Sri Krishna.