The Importance of the Seventeenth Chapter of Bhagwat Gita. (Ch-17)

King Khadag Bahu's son had a Sevak named Dushashan. This person was of an evil mind. Once he put up a bet with Mandalik Prince against a lot of money. He climbed an elephant. The stupid Sevak sat on the elephant and started using abusive words loudly. The elephant got angry and as a result, the tense Dushashan slipped and fell down. The elephant caught him through his trunk, threw him far away. Dushashan died instantly. He took birth as an elephant in his next birth in Sinhaldweep itself.

The King gifted this elephant to his friend through the waterway. This friend gifted away this elephant to Kavi or poet who had solved the King's friend's difficult question.

The Poet sold this elephant to the King of Malwa for a few gold coins.

After some time the elephant started suffering from fever. His fever went on increasing. The attendants informed the King about the elephant's sickness. The King sent an expert person dealing in medicine to get the elephant's fever relieved. Nothing happened so the King himself went to the stable and summoned the expert since the elephant stopped eating and drinking.

Suddenly the elephant started speaking in a strange voice. First, he praised the King and requested him not to call for any medical expert but a Brahmin, expert in Gita. He wanted the Brahmin to read the seventeenth chapter of the Gita.

The King agreed and a Brahmin expert in Gita was summoned. The Brahmin took some water in his hands and after sanctifying it, started reading the seventeenth Gita chapter.

The sick elephant started acquiring a human form. This elephant turned into a man, who now took the original form of Dushashan. He had attained Moksha. A divine Vimaan had come to take him to Vishnudham. The Malwa King was astonished. He asked Dushashan his true identity.

Sitting in the Vimaan, he narrated the story of his previous birth. The King was inspired after listening to him. The King too called a Brahmin and started listening to the seventeenth chapter. After some time he too attained Moksha.

The Seventeenth Gita chapter is important because it gives you the result of several Yagya's and you attain Sayujya moksha.