Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 01, , 2020. 7:45. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Duty - 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. There are many other aspects which will be gradually revealed through the course of the chapters of the Bhagavadgita. Arjuna, as the representative man, the specimen of a disciple, is admonished by the great example of the teacher, Sri Krishna. It is, no doubt, true that every human individual, Arjuna or whoever it is, is in a social atmosphere, and to argue on a basis which has absolutely no relevance to society would not be a completely valid procedure. Though it is true that a purely sociological argument is also not complete, because there are other aspects to it, yet, initially, we speak as social units. Rarely do we imagine that we belong to the vaster physical nature. Only in the philosophy classrooms may we be thinking in this manner, perhaps, but in our

===================================================== Friday, July 31, 2020. 2:57.AM. Discourse 4: The Second Chapter Continues – How to Live in the World-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inasmuch as there is no superiority or inferiority among individuals, there is a necessity for a mutual concession granted to each other by way of a sacrifice. My asking for freedom should not in any way deter the asking for freedom by another person. That is, I should not deny freedom to another just because I want to be free. Therefore, a hundred percent freedom for an individual is not possible because if each individual wants one hundred percent freedom, there will be no freedom at all because there will be a clash of aspirations. So the freedom that we can have in this world is a sort of sacrifice that we have to make at the same time—that is, we cannot expect one hundred percent freedom, though we can have as much freedom as is possible

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, July 24, 2020. 10:53.AM. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata - 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bhagavadgita wants to be your good friend. The Bhagavadgita wants to be a good physician of your illness. The Bhagavadgita does not want to make money off of you as a patient by giving you one tablet for your headache and saying, “Quit, now you are okay.” It wants to diagnose your entire disease and say, “My dear friend, this is the difficulty.” A holistic interpretation of medicine is the proper way of treating an illness, as people say nowadays. It means that you have to consider the whole being of the person when you treat that person for any particular illness. It is not the leg or the nose or the head or the throat that is ill; you are ill. This is what expert medical men tell us. The Bhagavadgita tells u

Sunday, July 19, 2020. 4:49.AM. Srimad  Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) Slokam-27. ------------------------------------------------------------ Slokam : "Brahmano  hi  pratisthaham  amrtasyavyayasya  ca, sasvatasya  ca  dharmasya   sukhasyaikantikasya  ca." ------------------------------------------------------------ Translation : hi  =  why  because; aham  =  I  am  Paramatma,  the  Brahmam; brahmanah  =  the  brahmam  that  is  the  entire  jivatma-s; avyayasya    amrtasya  ca  =   of  the  imperishable  and   immortal  also;  sasvatasya  dharmasya  ca  =  of  the  sanatana  dharma  also; ikantikasya  sukhasya  ca  =  of  the  ultimate  happiness  also; pratisthaha    =  ( all  the  above  said  are  )  the  seat/ testing  place. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discourse : In this slokam the brahman or spiritual substrtatum pervading all existence refers to Sri Laxsmi, the goddess of fortune. This is wha

Friday, July 10, 2020. 9:01. AM. Chapter-1. Introduction to the Bhagavadgita-10. The Upanishads say there are realms of being that transcend human life, and modern evolutionary doctrine says there are species above the mineral, the plant and the animal, leading to the human species. The Upanishads say that there are realms of being, denizens occupying a different order of life altogether, larger than what can be comprehended by a human being. The Gandharvas, the Devas, the realm of Brihaspati, Narayana and Nara, up to Prajapati, Brahma, Virat, Hiranyagarbha, Ishvara, and the Absolute, are used to take your mind beyond the concept of human satisfaction and human limitation. Life is not complete merely with bread and jam. Even with the best of comforts that you have in this world, you are still very poor in comparison with the great blessing that is ahead of you. That will be opened up in a series through the chapters of the Bhagavadgita, which are eighteen in number. There are also eigh

Wednesday, July 08, 2020.12:46.PM. Chapter 3: Samkhya – Right Understanding-5. 1. Now, without going in large details of everything that is told us in the second chapter, I will take your mind to the true meaning of this samkhya, which perhaps was in the mind of Sri Krishna when he used this word for rectifying the erroneous thinking of Arjuna.  "What do you mean by this right understanding?  I cannot know what you are speaking," cried out Arjuna at the beginning of the third chapter.  "You have confused me completely by telling so many things, nothing of which is clear to me." Here is a troubled mind speaking once again, at the very beginning of the commencement of the third chapter. "Is my relationship to the world a total unity, in which case I have to do nothing? Or, is it total separation, in which case also I have to do nothing?  The question of duty does not arise in this world if I have a relationship which is totally organic or totally isolated. So my

Tuesday, July 07, 2020. 8:53. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Duty - 1. 1. The reply of Sri Krishna to Arjuna’s questions comes from various levels—the social, the personal, the cosmical and, ultimately, the spiritual. A problem has to be tackled in every way, because our difficulties arise from the depths of our being. No difficulty belongs merely to one side of our life, just as a disease has a root in the layers which are beneath the mere physical. Interpreters of scriptures and students of philosophy are asked to take into consideration all the possible aspects of a particular situation, even if it be a commonplace event. A little event is a cosmic event, though it may be a very insignificant, meaningless something for common perception. But a thing is not so redundant as it may appear on the surface. The universe is awake at the birth of every event. That is why we are told that there is no such thing as a secret in this world; everything is public, open and common. An event has to

Sunday, July 05, 2020. 8:10.AM. Discourse 4: The Second Chapter Continues – How to Live in the World-4. Sri Krishna’s argument goes on, from stage to stage. Firstly, the fear of death is to be ruled out because of the possibility of attaining immortality, and the whole process of evolution through birth and death being a journey to the finality which is the end of all transmigration. As the river will meet the ocean, the soul will reach the sea of all-pervasiveness. Not only that, the performance of duty, which is the main subject of the Bhagavadgita, involves the consideration of the manner in which a human individual lives in this world as a combination of spirit and matter, soul and body, consciousness and objectiveness. There is a duty imposed upon every person on account of the very involvement of consciousness in space and time. We have to do our duty, our svadharma.  Svadharma api cavekshya na vikampitum arhasi ( B.G- CH-2 SLO .31) :  “Considering the essentiality of performing

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, July 01, 2020. 08:28.PM. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata - 5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. It is up to each person to appreciate why this situation arises, why mostly people are incapable of a balanced outlook in anything. There is always a spurt or a pressure of a particular aspect of our psychic personality. It is not that all the soldiers within are arrayed in a perfectly logical fashion to form a beautiful, artistic pattern. It is a hodgepodge of arrangement, a jumble, as it were, of our internal faculties, a chaos. It is not a good regiment that is within us. It is a crowd of clamorous powers, naughty children, an uncontrollable mob making a loud noise, as it were; we do not know who starts the noise, and what is actually the meaning of this noi