Megha Tiwari, Sheetal Goyal, Tejaswini Manae, Faheem Arshad
National Institute of Mental and Neurosciences Bengaluru
Avanthi Paplikar
Dr. S.R. Chandrasekhar Institute of Suvarna Alladi Speech and Hearing, Bengaluru
The wealth of wisdom in the sacred text of Bhagavad Gita is no secret. People have
turned to it in the times of crisis since time immemorial. But there is a dearth of research
in understanding the impact of reading of Bhagavad Gita on individuals and how it
differentiates them from others who don’t. So the present study aims to compare the
readers and non-readers of Bhagavad Gita on the psychological constructs of Anasakti,
Resilience and Life satisfaction. It was hypothesized that there would be a statistically
significant difference between readers and non-readers on the measures of Anasakti,
Resilience & Life satisfaction. A convenience sample of 50 readers and 50 non-readers
belonging to the 18-35 year age group was taken. They were administered the Anasakti
Scale by Singh & Raina (2015), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-10 by Sills & Stein
(2007) and the Satisfaction with Life Scale by Diener, Emmons, Larsen & Griffin (1985)
via Google form. Independent T-test was used to analyze the data. It was found that the
readers of Bhagavad Gita had higher levels of Anasakti & Life Satisfaction in comparison
to non-readers. For resilience, no significant differences were found between the two
groups. The research also posed certain limitations and suggested future directions.