Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================== Wednesday, January 18,  2023. 06:30. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 1. =============================================================== Though the Bhagavadgita is regarded as a well-known textbook, it is really not intended for the ordinary man. Its teachings, its ethical principles, its ultimate aims, are all of such a nature that it is difficult to accommodate them into the normal thinking of the human being living in a world of desires, ambitions, prejudices and traditional routines of various types, all which are cut at the very root by the altogether different outlook of life which the Bhagavadgita presents. The more we begin to ponder over its message, the more would we find it difficult to make it a guideline for our day-to-day life, though its purpose is nothing but that. The arguments of Arjuna in the First Chapter are our arguments. The logic of the human mind takes this body as a final re...

========================================================================= Tuesday, January 17, 2023. 07:00. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 31: The Message of the Sixth Chapter-4. POST ENDS.  ======================================================================== Thus, the Lord says that there need be no fear in this regard. There shall be a rearrangement of the conditions of the life of a dying person in a new atmosphere in which that condition will find itself. Actually, the person is a condition rather than a thing. We, as human beings, for instance, are not to be regarded as solid bodies. We are certain circumstances prevailing, conditions operating, and certain forces ignited for the purpose of action in a particular manner. The world is made up of forces, conditions, events, energies, fluids rather than solids. Hence, our efforts are also a sort of participation in our maintenance of relationship with the cosmical environment. Hence, all that we do and all...

========================================================================= Sunday, January 15, 2023. 07:15.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. Slokam-70. ========================================================================= Very important slokam Read carefully and  understand  well. ========================================================================= Slokam-70 - With Translation : "adhyeshyate   ca   ya   imam    dharmyam    samvadamavayoh, jnanayajnena    tenaham    ishtah   syamiti    me   matih." "And I declare that he who studies this sacred conversation worships Me by his intelligence."  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : ca    =   not  only  that; avayoh   =   between  us  ( ours ); dharm...

Chinmaya Mission : “The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.” In an age of unprecedented consumerism, we often forget how much we buy and consume. We acquire countless things that don’t mean much beyond momentary, fleeting joy. Choosing to spend mindfully can create lasting joy and fulfilment. By donating even the cost of one or two cups of coffee, you can change someone’s life and help their dreams come true. Swipe right to see how you can share your blessings. Buy some happiness for those who need it most by donating now. ========================================================================= Saturday, January 14,  2023. 07:00. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation - 5. ========================================================================= The spiritual seeker, the sadhaka, has a spiritually oriented enthusiasm in the beginning. Every one of us has a love for spiritual life. And the moment the idea of spiritual life arise...

========================================================================= Friday, January 13, 2023. 07:00. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 31: The Message of the Sixth Chapter-3. ======================================================================== The great student Arjuna is perturbed. This is a grand description indeed of the magnificent possibilities of human nature, spiritual meditation rising up into an experience of cosmic identity for which arduous effort is called for by way of sense-control and restraint of the mental operations. The mind is hard to control. We cannot tie the violent and tempestuous wind and put it inside our bag, and similar is the mind in its rapacious behaviour – so cyclonic, uncontrollable and tempestuous. How would one control the mind? Arjuna addresses Bhagavan Sri Krishna, “Do you not believe, O great Master, that a person who honestly endeavours to betake himself to this great yoga of meditation but fails in achieving his goal wil...

========================================================================= Wednesday, January 11, 2023. 07:15.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ========================================================================= Very important slokam Read carefully and  understand  well. ========================================================================= Slokam-69. (with Translation) : "na   ca   tasmanmanushyesu    kascinme    priyakrttamah, bhavita   na   ca   me   tasmat    anyah   priyataro   bhuvi." "There is no servant in this world more dear to Me than he, nor will there ever be one more dear." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : ca  =  not  only  that; tasmat   me  =  more  than  him  to  Me; pr...

========================================================================= Tuesday, January 10,  2023. 06:30. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation - 4. ======================================================================== Arjuna was such an individual. He had likes and dislikes. The whole story of the Mahabharata is a description of the conflict among the varieties of likes and dislikes. The spiritual seeker is taught, through the epic atmosphere of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita, the lessons of life and the morals that follow from these lessons. When our reasoning capacity is turbid, our knowledge is inadequate, and our adjustments with the world outside, including human society, are not strong enough. They collapse at the least touch of confronting situations, because human relationships are only an outer form of an internal propulsion of these three forces—sattva, rajas and tamas—which are cosmically present everywhere. There is a cosmic purpose behind even our ind...