Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ============================================================================================== Sunday 30, November 2025, 20:00. Article Spirituality The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 4. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on October 14, 1984) Post-4. ================================================================================================ Dasya is total subjection of oneself to the magnificence of God. We feel that we are utter servants, as it were, and God is the Supreme Master. He is the Lord of all lords, the Father of all fathers, the Master of all masters, and therefore, we are His servants. Rarely, in extreme forms of elevated devotion, God is considered as one's own equal, like a friend. We speak to God, as it were, as if He is in front of us. There were some saints in India, and perhaps in the West also, who could speak to God and summon Him, and they could expect God to do anything for them. If they ask Him to bring a vegetable, He will bring it lik...

================================================================================================ Friday 28, November 2025, 19:40. Article Scriptures The Language of the Bhagavadgita: 4.  Swami Krishnananda (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982) ================================================================================================= You would have yourself observed that when you glance through any page, any verse, any word of the Bhagavadgita text, you would have received some inspiration when your spirits are drooping. When you are agony-ridden and distressed, and you see no meaning in things due to your sorrow, at that time when you open the Bhagavadgita you would have seen something scintillating, piercing, and projecting itself as a solution of your problem in a motherly, kindly affection. This is what I found, and everybody would have found it. The Bhagavadgita is principally God speaking to man, and when God speaks, you know what He will speak. Everything ...

======================================================================================== Wednesday 26, November 2025, 20:15. Article Scriptures The Three Types of Discipline of the Bhagavadgita: 4.  Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on September 18th, 1974) Post-4. ========================================================================================== Therefore, we are not supposed to bring about the assemblage of mechanical parts in the discipline of our personality, because that would be an artificial life. We are supposed to conduct ourselves in such a way that our life is an art, a beauty, an attraction, so that our face beams with a joy that draws people towards us as if we are a magnet. Beauty is a source of attraction, and we become a source of beauty on account of the discipline spiritually conducted according to this novel doctrine of the Bhagavadgita. Now, this is not sufficient, and the next six chapters describe something much more. Whatever be the discipline that you have...

  ================================================================================================== Monday 24, November 2025, 20:00. Commentary on the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda Discourse 2: The First Chapter – Visada Yoga, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit: 1. Post-4. =================================================================================================== Discourse 2: The First Chapter – Visada Yoga, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit: 1. The Bhagavadgita is a system of meditation. It is not a story that is being told to us of what might have happened centuries back. It is a concentrated spiritual guide which takes us from the very level in which we find ourselves at any given moment of time and enables us to rise from that level to the next higher level, from the next higher level to a further higher level, and so on, in a graduated manner. There is no double promotion or sudden jumps in the teachings of the Bhagavadgita. In a way, we may say th...

======================================================================================================= Saturday 22, November 2025, 07:25. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita Daily Invocations:  4.The Purusha Sukta Swami Krishnananda. ===================================================================================== 4.The Purusha Sukta: 1. ōm sahasraśīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt, sa bhūmiṁ viśvato vṛtvā'tyatiṣṭaddaśāgulam. Thousand-headed is the Purusha, thousand-eyed and thousand-legged. Enveloping the earth from all sides, He transcends it by ten fingers' length. Note:—This is the first mantra of the famous Purusha Sukta of the Veda. Here the transcendent totality of all creation is conceived as the Cosmic Person, the Universal Consciousness animating all manifestation. The word 'earth' is to be understood in the sense of all creation. 'Dasangulam' is interpreted as ten fingers' length, in which case it is said to refer to the distance of the heart from t...

  =============================================================================================== Thursday 20, October 2025, 19:45.  Books Philosophy Metaphysical Philosophy Daily Sat Sangam - Swami Krishnananda. January  (from The Realisation of the Absolute) Post-2. ================================================================================================ 22. Truth Transcends Ideas of Omniscience and Omnipotence It is not possible to rest contented that a personal God is the ultimate Reality, however displeasing this may be to those who do not want to dispense with thinking in terms of the categories of the world. The philosopher-aspirant who is possessed of a flaming passion for integrating himself in Existence does not have the dull patience to linger on with the slow process of progressive self-transcendence through the channels of the different degrees of reality. The highest scientific mind always tries to cling to the Whole, and not to even the biggest part,...