Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ------------------------------------------------- Thursday, November 05, 2020. 08:15. AM. Chapter 3: The Transmigration of the Soul - 2. -------------------------------------------------- This is the reason why, in the First Chapter of the Gita, Arjuna found himself in a quandary. He had a subjective attitude and an objective attitude towards the army that was arrayed. He saw the army of his opponents, which is another way of saying that he saw an enemy in the camp. He also saw, at the same time, blood relations in the midst of the army generals, footmen, etc. You like a thing and dislike a thing at the same time. You are at war with your own brother. Because you cannot reconcile yourself with your brother, you are at war with him; but because he is your brother, you also love him. So your relationship with anything in this world is a love and hate complex. Neither do you love a thing really, nor do you hate a thing really. ‘Really’ is the word that you have to underline. A one h...

  ------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, November 04, 2020. 11 : 30. AM. Chapter 5: Life as a Yajna or Sacrifice - 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is a profound philosophy that is hidden behind performance of sacrifice, self-control, practice of yoga, the control of senses, the restraint of the mind and the stabilising of the intellect and the reason. We have to perform a double process – sometimes mentioned in the Bhagavadgita and also in Patanjali – of vairagya and abhyasa, a dual action of withdrawal and union. The performance of this dual function may be said to be a simultaneous action taking place, as recovering from illness is also the regaining of health and the going away of night is the coming in of day. There is no temporal successiveness in these processes; they happen to be a simultaneous occurrence. Thus, the vairagya that we speak of in yoga, the dissociation of consciousness from erroneous th...

  ------------------------------------------- Tuesday, November 03,  2020. 08:38. AM.  Chapter 7: The Nature of Right Understanding-6. --------------------------------------------- This is the sum and substance of the Samkhya and the Yoga expounded in the Second Chapter of the Gita, amounting to a precise answer to the complicated question which Arjuna raised in the First Chapter. And, inasmuch as the questions of Arjuna arose from the various levels of his personality, the answer also has to be equally relevant to those levels from where the questions arise. That is the reason why the Bhagavadgita is not exhausted merely by the Second Chapter, though, for all practical purposes, it appears as if we have given a suitable and complete answer. We have laid the foundation for a correct and full answer but the details shall follow in the chapters to come. ---------------------------------------- Our problems do not arise merely from one level of our being, as homeopaths tell ...

  ------------------------------------------------ Monday, November 02, 2020. 10:59. AM. Discourse 5: The Second Chapter Concludes – The Establishment of the Soul in Universality - 9. -------------------------------------------------  The soul does not think in terms of space and time and, therefore, we should not invite this unnecessary suffering by expecting a result of a particular action. “Today if I do something, tomorrow I will get something”—this idea must go because there is no tomorrow for our soul. All teaching is centred in this involvement of the soul in our action. That is called sankhya. Sankhya is nothing but the continuous action of our soul in every kind of action that we do. If the soul is outside and does not at all participate in our activities, and if our activities are only physical and sensory, then we will be like logs of wood in the ocean thrown here and there, not knowing which direction they will take. ------------------------------------------------...

---------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, October 31,  2020. 08:02. AM. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 7: Can War Ever be Justified ? - 7. (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Now, this is a human question which was humanly answered because we are always faced with some counter-correlative of a position whenever an issue is raised. Every issue has a counter issue. You cannot have an absolute issue in this world, and you do not know how to correlate these two sides of an issue where two sides are always there for every issue. When there are two sides of an issue, which side are you going to take? And how do you know which is the right side? The question of the Bhagavadgita is: How do you know what is right? -------------------------------------------- I will close by quoting an interesting suggestion made by an ethical philosopher who wrote a small book called Situation ...

  ---------------------------------------------------- Thursday, October 29, 2020. 06 : 04. AM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-15. Purushothama-yogam Slokam - 12. "This  chapter is very important, hence kindly  follow  and  understand  each  slokam  well." ----------------------------------------------------------. Slokam-12. "yadadityagatam  tejah  jagat  bhasayatekhilam, yaccandramasi  yaccagnau  tattejo  viddhi  mamakam." -------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : adityagatam  yad  tejah  =  that  which  shines/illuminates  the  whole  world; akhilam  jagat  bhasayate  =  the  thejaus  of /in  the  Sun  and; candramasi  yat,   agnau   ca  yat  =  the  thejaus  in  the  Moon  and  the  Fire  and; tat  tejah...

  ------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 27, 2020. 12:12. PM. Chapter 3: The Transmigration of the Soul - 1. -------------------------------------------------- As I mentioned, the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavadgita constitute, in a way, stages of the development of the spirit of man from levels of greater involvement through higher and higher levels of lesser involvement. The worst of involvements is the picture of the war, the scene of the battlefield that is presented in the First Chapter, the Mahabharata context. Nothing can be worse in this world than hatred, and war is the pinnacle of this attitude. You dislike a thing a hundred percent, and more than a hundred percent; then war takes place. ------------------------------------------------- The dislike is the counterpart of what you call ‘like’ for certain things. It is not possible to have only one side of a coin, as you know. Every coin has two sides. Your dislike does not mean that you dislike...