Reflections of the Bhagvad-Gita in R.C. Shukla's Ponderings

This article studies R. C. Shukla’s Ponderings from the angle of the reflections of the Bhagavad Gita. His poems reveal that Lord Krishna and Buddha are always haunting his head and heart respectively. An impassioned reading of his poetry, particularly the three volumes of Ponderings will, for every inquisitive reader, prompt him to figure out Shukla as a philosophical poet, immensely influenced by the gospel of the Bhagvad-Gita.