Chaturvarnyam Maya Srishtam

Abstract

Bhagavad Gita is the essence of Vedic knowledge and one of the most important Upaniṣads in Vedic literature. The title Bhagavad Gita translates as The Song of God and the text contains 700 verses that explore the nature of the Hindu religion. The Gita comprises part of the Mahabharata, one of two ancient Indian epics, but it is often regarded and studied as an independent work too. Gita is the conversation between a prince named Arjuna and the God Krishna that was held before the Kurukshetra war in the great Indian epic, The Mahabharata. There in the midst of both armies, Arjuna’s mind reels as he foresees the imminent death of his teachers, relatives, and friends, mixing of castes, immorality of women etc. He throws down his bow and arrows in sorrow and decides not to fight. However, after discussions, clarifications and the instructions of Sri Krishna, Arjuna got ready to fight. After reading Gita, being a student of science, I felt many modern scientific topics are also discussed by Lord Krishna and Arjuna. In this essay, I made an attempt to link the system of Chaturvarnyam discussed in the Gita with the Law of Entropy discussed in Physics.