Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/02/2020. Post-8. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Duryodhana struck his thigh and said, “No! I don’t want to hear anything of this kind.” ##Krishna said, “How is this young man speaking to me like that, when I spoke a few words on behalf of the poor Pandavas? Sages and saints, elders in the assembly! Is it proper behaviour that this young man rebuts me in one minute even before listening to me?” #Bhishma stood up and said, “I agree with whatever Sri Krishna has said. Their share is due to them.” #Drona, Kripa, and everybody said, “Wonderful! Wonderful!” *Duryodhana said, “I shall not agree. War is the only solution.” ##“Oh! You want war?” said Sri Krishna. “...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/02/2020. Chapter 3: The Aranya Parvam of the Mahabharatam-3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I was casually mentioning yesterday that we live in different levels of personality, not only in one level. We live in all the fourteen worlds at the same time. We are the physical body – yes, right. We are also the sense organs; that is also right. We are the prana, yes. We are the mind; that is also true. And we have a reason, an intellect to think. That is also correct. Now, all these layers of our personality are valid expressions and reasonable levels, requiring justifiable attention. We cannot over-emphasise any particular level.  Sometimes, in an over-enthusiastic mood, we ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09/02/2020. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #I am placing this divergent introduction before you because I had occasion to hear from a sincere sadhaka that what he requires is immediate practice and immediate experience. This is not to be unless the mind is cleared of all its cobwebs of entanglement with phenomenal experience.  #The mind will not concentrate, whatever be the effort we put forth, because the mind which we think is our mind is really everybody’s mind. It is not our property, and therefore it will not be possible for us to restrain it. If it is ours, we may handle it in the way we like; but unfortunately for ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08/02/2020. Chapter-1: This Drama of Life-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The Bhagavadgita, thus, does not take any one standpoint in answering questions of life. It takes every standpoint. Otherwise, the study of human life – or any life for the matter of that – may not be complete. A very expert physician takes into consideration every aspect of the possibility of illness of a person, and doesn't treat only one aspect.  Otherwise, there will be reaction from that aspect which is ignored or neglected in observation. A total answer is given to a total question in the Bhagavadgita. There is only a single question before us, and a single answer will come from every corner of t...

======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07/02/2020. Srimad Bhagavad Gita Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-8. "Tamastvajnanajam   viddhi  mohanam   sarvadehinam, pramadalasyanidrabhiah  tannibadhnati   bharata." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Essence : Slokam-8.   Hey  Arjuna!  the mode of ignorance causes the delusion of all living entities. The result of this mode is madness, indolence and sleep, which bind the conditioned soul. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

======================================================================== # CORD - Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development #CORD is a bond of love and understanding encouraging a process of sharing which enriches both the giver and the receiver. In this process of giving and serving, the giver grows spiritually and the receiver is blessed with the power of transformation.  – Swami Tejomayananda (World wide Head of Chinmaya Mission) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06/02/2020. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -9. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. What gives us pain and sorrow, and that which appears to be not in consonance with our idea at any particular moment of time of what we call the spiritual ideal, may be regarded as worth renouncing. Persons and things are ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05/02/2020. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 11. Post-11. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Sri Krishna’s gospel is God’s gospel to mankind, not merely to people in India, in an eternal setup. It is not a religious gospel of Hinduism, or a religious teaching at all; it is a scientific teaching connected with your relationship with the entire creation.  ##Therefore, ordinary commentaries will not be of much utility to you though, of course, they introduce you to the basic framework of the teaching. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. The Bhagavadgita is the Lord...