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Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God - Chapter-2.9: Swami Mukundananda.

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Swami Chinmayananda: Guruvayur Ekadashi is celebrated in Sri Krishna Temple at Guruvayur in Kerala.  This Ekadashi in other regions is known as Prabodhini Ekadashi and Dev Uthani Ekadashi or Kartiki Ekadashi. ============================================================== Friday, 24 Nov 2023. 08:10. Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Slogam-9. ================================================================ Slogam-9. sanjaya uvacha evam-uktva hrishikesham gudakeshah parantapa na yotsya iti govindam uktva tushnim babhuva ha ================================================================ sanjayah uvacha—Sanjay said;  evam—thus;  uktva—having spoken;  hrishikesham—to Shree Krishna, the master of the mind and senses;  gudakeshah—Arjuna, the conquerer of sleep;  parantapah—Arjuna, the chastiser of the enemies;  na yotsye—I shall not fight;  iti—thus; govindam—Krishna, the giver of pleasure to the senses;  uktva—having addre...

A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 2-3: Swami Krishnananda.

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PMO 26.07.2021. 1.The iconic Ramappa Temple is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site! ================================================================ Thursday, 23 Nov 2023 06:30. Chapter 2: The Background of the Bhagavadgita - 3. ================================================================ 2. You have to put on a dual attitude in your daily life in respect of what is yours and what is not yours. It does not mean that you are involved only in what is yours. You are also daily involved in things which are not yours. The world is not compartmentalised in such a marked way that you can completely be free from relation with what is not yours. Wherever you are, even in a motorbus or a railway train, you will find what is not yours and perhaps what is yours. 3. "Ramappa Temple, also known as the Rudreswara temple, is a Kakatiya style Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, located in Telangana, India."  ================================================================ Inasmuch...

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 14.5 - Swami Krishnananda.

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=============================================================== Wednesday, 22 Nov 2023 06:40.  Chapter 14: The Glory and Majesty of the Almighty-5. ================================================================ Here the perceptive faculties and the cognitive processes cease to function. It is not the intellect that understands or the feeling that feels God's presence, it is the bursting forth of the intuitional integrality, by which what is intended is a totality of grasp of the whole of the cosmos at one stroke and in simultaneity, and not as a succession of phenomena. We do not count one thing after another thing as we do here in this world when we try to see a series of objects. We cannot see with our eyes all things at once. Even when it appears that we are seeing many things at one time, we are really seeing one thing after another thing in a series, in a time process, as if they are extended in space. But, as we observed, God-vision is a timeless, spaceless experience. And,...