Dear Reader,

If you ask the right person the right question at the right time, you will get the right answer. The aim behind asking any question is also important. Most people ask questions out of curiosity, to know more, to get information or to impress others. Others ask questions to obtain knowledge and wisdom. Finally, the seekers ask questions to start on the spiritual path. In this case, their questions become their quest.

Quest is a search, a mental process by which knowledge, indeed wisdom, is acquired. Man is a quest, an eternal inquiry. His is all a quest for the truth. Science, philosophy, religion, all ask the questions that lead to the truth.

In the Mahabharata, before the greatest battle on this earth, Arjuna, the greatest warrior of the Pandavas, observes his gurus, relatives and friends lined up against him on the battlefield in Kuruskshetra, to kill or be killed. Overcome by grief and pity, he is in a dilemma. How can he fight and kill them? And what will be the value of his victory if none of them are alive to share his joy? Here is Arjuna asking the right person, the Supreme Lord Krishna, the right questions at the right time, and getting the right answers in the form of the Bhagavad Gita. Arjuna's questions become his quest to continue for 18 chapters till he is questionless. Now he has become a seeker. Arjuna then surrenders and says, "My dear Krishna, O infallible one, my illusion is now gone. I have regained my memory by your mercy. I am now firm and free from doubt and am prepared to act according to your instructions." (BG:18.73).