BGRFPracticing the Gita Principles in the real life of the Hindus

Practicing the Gita Principles in the real life of the Hindus on a community basis has been an unknown activity in Bangladesh or, so to say, all over the world. Gita has been accepted as the most modern synthesis of Smritis and Shruti texts. Much is talked about and theoretically discussed in innumerable books, magazines, journals, brilliant papers, symposia, eloquent presentations etc., on Gita in many languages. Advice and sermons abound in the air. But examples of its exercise and application in practical life are either absent or few. Learning and practicing Hindu mythological teachings from their Gurus are also on the verge of oblivion. New standards of life are pouring into this Hindu society and being practiced, causing the broader humanistic values diminished among the new generation Hindu population. Unity in Diversity of ideas on spirituality is being sacrificed for sectarian and narrow personal or communal interests. This must be stopped. Sri Sri Gitasangha Bangladesh has initiated a three-year-long Pilot Project named “Gitagram”, meaning a village where young Hindu residents are targeted to be brought under the rigours of the practice of Gita principles in daily life. The goal is to get back their day-to-day practices and conducts after Vedic and Upanishadic principles which the Hindus believe are already latent in them by transmigration of life. The results and lessons of the initiative will be carefully documented, and if successful, its possibility of replication may be tested afterwards. The name of the selected village is Sasikar (meaning the light of the moon) , under Upaila- Dashar, District-Madaripur southwestern region of Bangladesh. Immediate response of villagers to this initiative has been dubbed by themselves as “a Wake-up- Call for reviving our lost heritage.”