Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Tuesday, November 01, 2022. 06:30. Chapter 27: The Practice of Meditation-6. ======================================================================= We are accustomed to social thinking, mostly. Philosophical thinking is very strange. We do not think philosophically in our daily life, much less metaphysically. We are social beings. The society in which we live is a psychological society, and it is made to appear that the very existence of a person depends upon the relation that the mind maintains with other minds, as if one person cannot be alive if another is not there. By ‘another', I mean a person or any object of sense. If they are not there, it will look like the life itself of the person is at stake. This is an illusion, this is a deception, this is Mara or Satan working and telling us the wrong thing: “If your relations outwardly ma

 ======================================================================= ========================================================================= Saturday, October 29, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ======================================================================= Very important slokam. Read carefully and  understand  well. ======================================================================== Slokam-49. "Asaktabuddhih   sarvatra    jitatma   vigatasprhah, naiskarmyasiddhim   paramam    sannyasenadhigacchati." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation :1. Slokam-49.  "One can obtain the results of renunciation simply by self-control and by becoming unattached to material things and disregarding material enjoyments. That is the highest perfectional stage of renunciation."  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Friday, October 28, 2022. 07:00. Discourse-51. The Eighteenth Chapter Concludes: The Bhagavadgita Concludes-2. ======================================================================== Iti te jñānam ākhyātaṁ guhyād guhyataraṁ mayā, vimṛśyaitad aśeṣeṇa yathecchasi tathā kuru (18.63):  “I have told you everything that is necessary. Is there anything left now? I have concluded by the word that God is supreme. Surrender to Him is the final word. Devotion to the Supreme Being is the ultimate sadhana. I have told you the secret of all secrets. Consider deeply the pros and cons and the various aspects of this wisdom that I have imparted to you, and then do what you like.” After having said this much, Sri Krishna does not compel Arjuna by saying, “Therefore, do this.” After saying all these things, Sri Krishna says, “Do whatever is proper according t

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Thursday, October 27, 2022. 06:00. Chapter 27: The Practice of Meditation-5. ========================================================================= The mind is a web of relations, and it is necessary for us to understand what an interconnection of relations can be. Relations are not substances. They are not tangible things. They are nothing at all, while they appear to be very, very solidly existing there as heavyweights. A relation is an unintelligible something which appears to be there, while it is really not there. It is a kind of illusion. So in one sense we may say the very existence of the mind is an illusion. It is not there. The ego is said to be like that. The mind is that. Every blessed thing of the nature of a non-spiritual character is finally non-existent. The mind, being a mere setup of relational organisations, cannot be

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, October 25, 2022. 07:30.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ======================================================================= Very important slokam. Read carefully and  understand  well. ========================================================================= Slokam-48 : "sahajaṃ karma kaunteya sadoṣamapi na tyajet sarvārambhā hi doṣeṇa dhūmenāgnirivāvṛtāḥ." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation-1. One should not abandon, O Kaunteya, the duty to which one is born, though faulty; for, are not all undertakings enveloped by evil, as fire by smoke? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation-2. sahajaṃ = born simultaneously;  karma = work

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Monday, October 24,  2022. 06:00. Discourse-51. The Eighteenth Chapter Concludes: The Bhagavadgita Concludes -1. ========================================================================= The Bhagavadgita is coming to its conclusion. Īśvaraḥ sarvabhūtānāṁ hṛddeśe'rjuna tiṣṭhati, bhrāmayan sarvabhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā (18.61):  Ishvara, the Supreme Creator of the universe, is residing in the heart of all. He is all-pervading, transcendent, above this creation that He has manifested from Himself, yet residing in all hearts as the ruler of all, and also the Self of all. From the objective point of view, He is the dispenser of justice—the Creator, Preserver, Destroyer. From the subjective side, He is the deepest consciousness—the Atman. In the deepest recesses of the heart of all beings, Ishvara, the Supreme Lord, resides. He controls

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Sunday, October 23, 2022. 07:00. Chapter 27: The Practice of Meditation-4. ======================================================================== The mind is not a solid substance. It is a fabric of interconnected associations, relations. We are not just moving inside the skull of an individual person. The whole structure of the mind is very intriguing because while it appears to be a little personal property of any given individual, we will find that it is not like that. It has connections with every blessed thing in the world. Modern scientists have coined a word to describe the subtle invisible activities of the human mind, not the visible conscious activities, the unknown hidden background behind the screen activities of the mind, which are stronger operations, more forceful activities than the waking activities. The word coined by mode

 ======================================================================== ====================================================================== Friday, October 21, 2022. 07:30.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ======================================================================= Very important slokam. Read carefully and  understand  well. ======================================================================= Slokam-47 : sreyan   svadharmo   vigunah   paradharmat   svanushthitat svabhavaniyatam   karma   kurvan   napnoti   kilbisham. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation :1. Slokam-47. "It is better to engage in one's own occupation, even though one may perform it imperfectly, than to accept another's occupation and perform it perfectly. Prescribed duties, according to one's nature, are never affected by sinful reactions." -----------------------------------------