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Daily Invocations: 13. Swami Krishnananda.

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==================================================================================== Friday 05, Sep 2025, 20:00. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita Daily Invocations:  2.The Satarudriya-13. Swami Krishnananda. ===================================================================================== 56. मीढुष्टम शिवतम शिवो नः सुमना भव। परमे वृक्ष आयुधं निधाय कृत्तिं वसान आचर पिनाकं बिभ्रदागहि॥ mīḍhuṣṭama śivatama śivo naḥ sumanā bhava, parame vrukśa āyudhaṁ nidhāya kṛttiṁ vasāna ācara pinākaṁ bibhradāgahi. O Supreme Bestower of blessings (on devotees)! O Supremely Auspicious One! Be propitious and graceful towards us. Leaving Thy destructive weapons behind on the top of a high tree, descend and appear before us wearing the tiger skin and wielding Thy Pinaka bow (merely as Thy insignia). 57. विकिरिद्र विलोहित नमस्ते अस्तु भगवः। यास्ते सहस्र हेतयोऽन्यमस्मन्निवपन्तु ताः॥ vikirida vilohita namaste astu bhagavaḥ, yāste sahasragṁhetayo'nyamasmannivapantu tāḥ. O Profuse Granter of boons! O White-hued ...

The Tree of Life: 3.6. Swami Krishnananda.

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===================================================================================== Wednesday 03 Sep 2025, 21:30. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 3.6. Discourse: 3. Severing the Root of this Tree of Life:6. Swami Krishnananda.  ===================================================================================== The thought of God or the love of God can engulf all other loves only if it is as vast as everything, like the ocean itself. The ocean swallows up all the drops, but one drop cannot engulf another drop. If the mind persists in its notion that God is also one of the objects, a content in the universe, then it will not be possible to withdraw the mind from the thought of objects. Love for things in the world can melt in the menstruum of God-experience only when God-thought is inclusive of all other affections. The affection or love for God is not a love that is different from other loves, but it is a transcendent love which includes all other loves, just as the valu...