This is the PowerPoint which I had prepared for my exposition at the 4th IACLSC Biennial International Conference-Exhibition, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Law, KIIT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, 21st April 2023. Originally, I should have held two interventions at the Conference, i.e. an intervention on Gandhi and Gita and an intervention on Bhagavad Gita. Due to problems with the timetable, I could expose only my presentation on Bhagavad Gita. I decided to propose nonetheless for discussion the PowerPoint which I had prepared on Gandhi's interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita. I am interested in all comments, observations, and suggestions. A text of mine on Gandhi's interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita will be published in a volume in some months. I will upload the text as soon as it is published. I will propose this text too for discussion. This PowerPoint contains some observations of mine. The text will be more extended. The intent of my investigation is to expose and interpret aspects of Gandhi’s meditation on Gita. One aim of Gandhi’s meditation on Gita consists in the search for the foundations of the right moral thought and of the right individual education. The revelation of Gita is for the individual a journey towards the discovery of himself and of his position in the reality; it is a journey towards the discovery of the possible developments of his soul. Since Atman is the ground of all individuals, there is no legitimation for any interpretation of the individuals as mutually separated entities. In Gandhi’s view, the Revelation of Gita gives to the individual the right moral education and the right moral foundation: it gives the knowledge of Truth, of God, of reality and of the individual nature. Thanks to the education obtained through the meditation on Gita, the individual is able to understand the right moral behaviour: this has an immediate effect on the structure and organisation of the whole society. In order that the society can be morally changed, the individual ought to develop his moral constitution in the right way. There may not be any right political programme without a previous individual right moral education. The responsibility of the development of one’s life belongs to the individual. The main works of my analysis are Gandhi’s Discourses on the “Gita”, contained in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, XXXII (November 1926 – January 1927), pp. 94-376, and the work of Mahadev Desai, The Gospel of selfless action or The Gita according to Gandhi.
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