The Liberative Spirituality of Bhagavad Gita

The basic concern of all authentic Scriptures of World Religions is the integral liberation of human beings. They show ways of salvation from the existential estrangement of human life. They point to the state of ultimate self-realisation. The process towards this state of mukti is not a denial of this world but a transformation of the ambiguities of this world to a liberated state. This soteriological concern is dominant in the Bhagavad Gita. What is significant is that the Gita's way of liberation comprises the diverse aspects of life, personal and social, rational and emotional, historical and cosmic. This becomes evident when the text is read in the religio-cultural context of its composition.