A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 21 - Swami Krishnananda.

Chinmaya Mission :

What is the purpose of Knowledge?

Chinmaya Vibhooti, Pune hosted a full-day program for the 33 students studying in the Marathi school of Walen village in Mulshi. 

The children, aged 6 years to 12 years, had a fabulously memorable day packed with activities in all areas of Chinmaya Vibhooti, including Swanubhooti Vatika, Chinmaya Jeevan Darshan, and the Chinmaya Maruti and Pranav Ganesh Mandirs. 

Not to mention lots of gifts, prizes, and treats from sponsors, and smiling moments of love, laughter, and learning. 

All this was planned by Suprabha Rao and a team of sevaks, and the program was initiated by Sharad Sathe, transport and procurement manager at Chinmaya Vibhooti, who himself had studied at the same school as a child. 

Gratitude is extended to Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda for his blessings upon the children and teachers..

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Thursday 04, Apr 2024 06:10.

Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-10.

Post-21.

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So in this outlook of life you will find there is no such thing as secularity or spirituality isolated from one another. Nowadays people talk of secular existence, political existence, social existence, and spiritual existence. There is nothing of the kind. These are all unnecessary departments that we are creating psychologically in a single, seamless arrangement of life. That which is predominantly extrovert looks secular, but that which is predominantly extrovert is also not spiritual; nor is it an introverted action, or merely a political administration – all which, of course, are capable of being blended into a great Yoga of existence. A person can be a great statesman and politician, and also be a great Yogi. Lord Krishna himself is an example. He was a master statesman, master warrior, master Yogi, master politician, master sannyasin, master householder, and master incarnation of God. He blended together every aspect.

Thus, you can be a very good servant in any walk of life, and there is no such thing as menial labour or better work, a white-collar job. They do not exist. Every work is dignified because of the fact that every work is connected to a spiritual connection of your life with the whole godly arrangement of things. So 'spirituality', 'secularity' and so on are words that have to be used in the proper sense. There is only one action, all divine in its being; and only one person acts – it is the supreme Purusha and Prakriti. There is one purpose, the unity of existence, the blending of adhyatma, adhibhuta and adhidaiva in which you are involved.

It is all joy. You seem to be in a kingdom of heaven even when you think of all these things. You are not living in hell. You are actually living in the heaven of God even now. The illusion of hell is only a temporary makeshift or a trickery of the mind, as in the end of the Mahabharta, Yudhishthira was made to see a kind of hell which was really not there; it was heaven itself. His perspective, his vision was distorted for some reason, and he began to see hell even in heaven. But the hell vanished, and heaven started shining before him.

In this very world, at this very place, in this very context, you will see all trouble vanishing in one second as if you have woken up from sleep, from a phantasm of dream, and you see a new world altogether. The awakening of the spirit, which is the intention behind the teaching of the Bhagavadgita, is instantaneous action of rising from hell to heaven, from mortality to immortality, from finitude to infinitude.

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Next

Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence

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