Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

================================================================== ======================================================== Monday, June 01, 2020. Srimad  Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) Slokam-22.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam :22. Sri  Bhagavan  Uvaca "Prakasam  ca  pravrattim  ca  mohameva  ca  pandava, na  dveshti  sam  pravrttani  na  nivrttani  kangkshati." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation of Slokam : Sri  Bhagavan  Uvaca  =  Lord  said; pandava,  ( yah )  =  hey,  Arjuna! ( who ); prkasam  ca  =  ( the  dharmam   of   sattvic  gunam )  of  illuminaion / light / brightness  and; pravrttim  ca  =    ( the  darmam  of  rajo  gunam )  off  activities / action / karmam  and; moham  eva  ca  =  ( the dharmam  of   tamo  gunam ) of  inertness  and; sam  pravrttani  na  dveshti   =  (  one  who  )does  not  )  disl

========================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 31, 2020. Chapter-1. Introduction to the Bhagavadgita-5. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Transmutation is the process of creation and destruction, and everyone is involved in this time process, which is basically mutation. Time never stands still for even a second. It undergoes transformation. It is a conflict between the present and the future. It absorbs the past into the present and runs forward into the future. There is a continuous activity taking place with every person and every thing involved in time. There is a confrontation of the three phases of the time process – past, present and future – something going, something coming, or we may say more prosaically, something dying and something being born. It is something like a war taking place. The history of h

========================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, May 29, 2020. Chapter 2: The Difficulties of the Spiritual Seeker - 10. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Now, there is a further condensation by a mixing up of these cosmical principles called tanmatras in certain proportions, and as a mixture is produced by an apothecary or a doctor by combining chemical products in some proportion and it becomes a medical mixture; in such a way or in some such manner these principles, these tanmatras, got combined and became gross elements in what are called ether, air, fire, water, and earth. ##These five gross elements are the whole world. In this world you will see nothing except these five elements – ether, air, fire, water, earth. Even this physical body of ours and everything that is physical and material in this world

=========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, May 28, 2020. Chapter 5: The Mortal and the Immortal-5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, the sum and substance of the First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is this much: a relinquishment of all effort, which originally was the spring of action of the seeking state. After years of spiritual practice one may content oneself with being the very same person that one was many years back and lead the little life of the man of the street either due to incapacity or due to a total disillusionment. Here there are several types of spiritual seekers who may have to face the same problems, no doubt, but who will be taken along different paths on account of the varying extent of the clarity of their spirits and the sincerity of purpose with which they have started the advent

========================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sankhya Yogam -10. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. All perception—finally, all knowledge—is a conditioned observation of things through the mind and the sense organs on account of prakriti conditioning things subjectively on the one hand and objectively on the other hand. Thus, sensory perception cannot be regarded as correct perception. Even pure mental cogitation cannot be regarded as correct perception, because the externality characterising the object vitiates the validity of any perception. The error of perception of any kind is the introduction of space and time in the midst of the otherwise indivisible movement of prakriti—subjectively as gunas, and also objectively as gunas. Between two waves in the ocean there ar

============================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, May 26, 2020. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 9. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. We see darkness everywhere and do not know what to do. The direction that we have to take is not clear. This is not to be considered as a retrogression in our aspiration; it is a precondition to further illumination. It was the stage through which even a man like Buddha had to pass, and everyone has to pass, but we are likely to mistake it for a fall rather than a necessary step. When we are completely blank and dazed, looking helpless, we do not know whether we are moving forward or downward in our movement. There a Guru’s grace is necessary. We should not be in a vacuous condition at that time. That is a dangerous state where we can fall this

============================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 25, 2020. Srimad  Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) Slokam-21. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam : Arjuna Uvaca : "Kairlingaistrin  gunanetan  atito  bhavati  prabho, kimacarah  katham  caitan  trin  gunanativartate." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Arjuna inquired: O my dear Lord, by what symptoms is one known who is transcendental to those modes? What is his behavior? And how does he transcend the modes of nature? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Arjuna uvaca  = Arjuna  asked  Lord; prabho  =   my  Lord; etan  trin   gunan  atitah  =  one  who  cross  over /  transcend,  far  beyond  all  these  three  guna-s ( modes/nature/qualities );

=========================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 24, 2020. Chapter-1. Introduction to the Bhagavadgita-4. --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The world of nature and the world of human society, when it is subjected to an acute philosophical analysis, will present itself in this circumstance of a dual action taking place between the world of nature and yourself, and yourself and the people around you, who are also like you. ##The Bhagavadgita occurs in the context of a big Armageddon, the Mahabharata war. The interesting phenomenon of the delivery of the Bhagavadgita is that the most sacred thing that it is – a holy teaching connected with God and creation, something which you would like to hear in a sanctified spot such as a temple or an ashram, a university or an academy, a school or a college – is given in the worst of human conditions

========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 23, 2020. Chapter 2: The Difficulties of the Spiritual Seeker - 9. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. *The whole of the Samkhya philosophy is a system of cosmology; it is a description of the way in which things evolve from the Ultimate Reality. **Now I am speaking to you the classical Samkhya of Kapila, which is in some respects acceptable to the other schools of thought also, though not entirely. I will tell you in what way they are acceptable and in what way they are not acceptable. #The Supreme Being is called purusha in the Samkhya. The essential nature of this purusha is pure consciousness, awareness, brilliance, light, intelligence, self-awareness. The purusha is an Infinite Being, and not something that is in some place; it is not an individual person. Cr

=========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, May 22, 2020. Chapter 5: The Mortal and the Immortal-4. --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The difficulties mentioned, in a few words, in the First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita are not ordinary jokes or mere stories told to us for our cajolement. These things are the difficulties of human nature as such. It is not just my difficulty or your difficulty. Anyone who is human shall have to pass through these stages. Who can ever gainsay that one does not think in terms of gains and losses, in the light of one’s relationship with the world outside and human society externally. We love and hate, and have our ways in this complex of relationship in the world and in all human affairs. Where does God come in here into this picture? ----------------------------------------------------------------

======================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 21, 2020. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sankhya Yogam -9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *Thus, the movement of prakriti within itself in the form of the sense organs and the mind on the one hand, and the objects on the other hand, are taken by us as two different activities taking place. #(BG- CH 3.SL 28) "Actually, prakriti is cognising prakriti—'guna guneshu vartanta iti matva na sajjate.' " . *One wave is dashing against another wave in the ocean, and two persons are not actually involved there. The structure of the sense organs and the mind is responsible for the kind of consciousness that is passing through that particular structure, and yet we should not forget that the sense organs and the mind are composed of the very same gu

============================================================ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 20, 2020. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 8. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #There is a period of test for every one of us in this world. It is not that honey and milk will flow immediately, though it must flow one day. It is not that it should not flow – it will flow, it has to flow, but it does not flow immediately. We are put to the rack in the beginning, for reasons God only knows, for reasons of the very nature of the structure of this universe. ##Sometimes it appears to us that we have nobody in this world. Every spiritual seeker feels that. “I have neither this world nor the other world. I have neither money in my hand, nor friends to help me. I have not even medicine to take if I am sick.” ###That deject

========================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, May 19, 2020. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14, Slokam - 20. Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) Slokam-20. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam : "Gunanetanatitya  trin  dehi dehasamudbhavan, janmamrtyujaraduhkhaiah   vimuktomrtamasnute." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : "When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes, he can become free from birth, death, old age and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dehi               =  the  jivatma  who  has  the  body-consciousness; deha-samudbhavan   =  the  cause  for  the  birth  of  the  body; etan  trin  gunan  = all  th

============================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 18, 2020. Chapter-1. Introduction to the Bhagavadgita-3. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. It is not true that conflicts cannot arise between brothers, though the word ‘brother’ is a beautiful word which implies that such a conflict is unthinkable. Because a person is your brother, a conflict should not arise between you; but because of outside factors, conflicts can arise. A brother is not merely an affectionate participant in a family setup. He is also an independent individual. ------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Here is the whole point. How can two persons be independent and yet be cooperative to the hilt? How can you expect total sacrifice on the part of a person who is also independent like you? If you consider tha