Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

Note: "The Bhagavad Gita discusses the concept of Varnashrama, not as a rigid caste system based on birth, but as a system of social organization based on individual qualities and duties.  Krishna explains that the four varnas (Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra) are created based on "guna" (qualities) and "karma" (actions). While the Gita acknowledges the existence of these divisions, it emphasizes that one can attain liberation (Moksha) through fulfilling one's prescribed duties (Swadharma) within their respective varna, regardless of their birth" =================================================================================================== Sunday 24, May 2026, 19:35. Article Scriptures  Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 5. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on February 24th, 1973). Post - 5. ==================================================================================================== How is it that we know that something ...

============================================================================================================== Friday 22, May 2026, 19:30.  Books Bhagavad Gita & Hinduism The Moksha Gita: 6- 6 to10.  Swami Sivananda. Chapter 6: The Nature of the Mind: Slogas - 6 to 10 Commentary:  Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================== Slogam-6. द्वैतवृत्तिष्वलुप्तासुब्रह्म भाति न चेतसः । अतो नाशय ताः सर्वा ब्रह्मतेजोऽभिवृद्धये ॥६॥ 6. Brahman will not shine when the dualities of the mind are not destroyed. Destroy the dualities. Brahman will shine in its pristine glory. It is impossible to have the vision of Brahman as long as there is faith in dual existence. The Light of the Self cannot be seen by one who is fast bound to plural and dual life. Even intellectual life cannot make one behold the glorious Brahman, for the intellect functions only on a dual basis. The intellect cannot work with a feeling of t...

  ==================================================================================================== Tuesday 19, May 2026, 05:00.  Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Heritage of Indian Culture: 2.2 .   Chapter 2: The Vision of True Religion -2. Swami Krishnananda. Post-6. ==================================================================================================== A necessity for external control arises when that which requires to be controlled does not know the way in which it has to conduct itself in relation to others. When any particular individual or group of individuals loses sight of the goal towards which total humanity is moving, a need arises for regulating the movement of this aberrant section of mankind, and then comes the need for a system of government. The epics and the Puranas tell us that this was the beginning of Treta Yuga. In some Puranas, such as the Vayu Purana, we are told such fantastic things about the conditions that prevailed in...

  ================================================================================================== Saturday 16, May 2026, 20:15. Article Scriptures Sri Krishna as Revealed in All Levels of Reality: 2. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on May 1, 1983) ================================================================================================== A keen student of the Bhagavadgita would have observed that a single answer is not available, but a manifold answer is poured forth through the different verses of the Bhagavadgita, often making us feel that there is, as it were, a contradiction in the statements made. There is a sociological point of view sometimes visible to us at the very beginning of the Gita, a point of view of the Sankhya even in the classical sense, a point of view which is purely political, economic and personal, a point of view which may be called ethical and moral, a point of view which is cosmical, natural, universal, and a point of view which is perhaps Absolute. T...

==================================================================================================== Thursday 14, May 2026, 18:00. Article Scriptures Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Gospel of the Bhagavadgita - 3. Swami Krishnananda. ==================================================================================================== Arjuna was thoroughly mistaken in assessing the values of life. “Your understanding is turbid, it is not clear enough to grasp the vitality of life. Nobody asked you to start the war. It is you who started this, and I merely said nothing against it. If you want it, have it, and be done with it. After having started it of your own accord, relying on the strength of your arms, listening to nobody else's advice, what makes you now sing a different tune altogether, as if you are another person having nothing to do with the previous person that you were who decided to wage the war? The answer of Arjuna was: “I do not know.” There are some students who come to this ...