Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

===================================================================================== Tuesday 12 Aug 2025, 06:00. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 3.5. Discourse: 3. Severing the Root of this Tree of Life:5. Swami Krishnananda.  ===================================================================================== Any image or form can be taken out from the block of stone by a sculptor. From the block of stone the sculptor can carve a tiger, a Jesus Christ or a Bhagavan Sri Krishna. He can carve a donkey or a monkey. Everything is present in that block of stone. Any thing, any form, any structure, any pattern can be said to be present in this impersonal block of stone. In the same way, every type of universe is present in the Divine Mind. Any universe of any kind of experience can be extracted out of it. This is not the only world that can be created by the will of the Supreme Being. This is why God is sometimes called Ananta Koti Brahmanda Nayaka—the Lord of infinite crores ...

  ==================================================================================== Saturday 09, Aug 2025, 20:25. Books Bhagavad Gita. The Teachings of the Bhagavad-Gita: 1.3:  Chapter 1: This Drama of Life - 3. Swami Krishnananda ===================================================================================== This occasion arose at a moment when the Mahabharata war was to take place – a question that arose in the mind of Arjuna, who in a way represents mankind in general. That personality called 'Arjuna' represents man as such. He stands for me, you, and everybody else. As a member in a parliament may stand for a particular constituency and represent the voice of those people there from where he is elected, Arjuna may represent man as such, everybody included. The question that arose in his mind is the question that may arise in every one of our minds. What is this question? In the earlier stages, this so-called Arjuna representing man, thought like anybody else in ...

  ==================================================================================== Friday 18, July 2025. 07:00. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 19. Slogam-19. Swami Mukundananda. ===================================================================================== Slogam-19. "tasmad asaktah satatam karyam karma samachara asakto hyacharan karma param apnoti purushah." ===================================================================================== tasmāt—therefore.  asaktaḥ—without attachment.  satatam—constantly.  kāryam—duty.  karma—action.  samāchara—perform.  asaktaḥ—unattached.  hi—certainly; ācharan—performing.  karma—work; param—the Supreme.  āpnoti—attains.  pūruṣhaḥ—a person. ========================================================================================= Translation: BG 3.19: Therefore, giving up attachment, perform actions as a matter of duty because by working without...

  Chinmaya Mission:  Favorites· 12h· Chinmaya Mahasamadhi Aradhana Camp 2025 – San Jose Theme: Gopika Geet – The Heart’s Song of Devotion A week of divine immersion came to a blissful close from July 29th to August 3rd, 2025 at Signia by Hilton, San Jose, as over 1000 delegates from across North America gathered in San Jose to celebrate the 32nd Chinmaya Mahasamadhi Camp. This year’s theme, Gopika Geet, was brought alive through soulful musical presentations by talented artists and the profound commentary of Pujya Swami Swaroopananda. Each session revealed the depth of the Gopis’ devotion and longing, inspiring every participant to reflect on their own relationship with the Divine. Children, youth, and adults engaged fully in satsangs, seva, sadhana, and celebration, experiencing the joy of spiritual community. The concluding Guru Paduka Puja on the Chinmaya Mahasamadhi Aradhana Day (3 August) was a deeply touching tribute to Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda, reminding everyo...

  =================================================================================== Tuesday 05, Aug 2025, 05:40. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita Daily Invocations:  2.The Satarudriya-11. Swami Krishnananda. ===================================================================================== 46. नमो वः किरीकेभ्यो देवनाग्ंहृदायेभ्यो नमो विक्षिणकेभ्यो नमो विचिन्वात्केभ्यो नम आनिर्हतेभ्यो नम अमीवतकेभ्यो नमः॥ namo vaḥ kirikebhyo devānāgṁhṛdayebhyo namo vikṣīṇakebhyo namo vicinvatkebhyo nama ānirhatebhyo nama āmīvatkebhyaḥ. Prostration to You all who are the hearts of the gods, bestowing on devotees' wealth (material as well as spiritual); prostration to You who are Un decaying; prostration to You who grants the wishes of everyone; prostration to You who destroys evil from all sides; prostration to You who manifests Yourself abundantly. 47. द्रापे अन्धसस्पते दरिद्रान्नीलालोहित। एषां पुरुषाणामेषां पाशुनां मा भर्मा'रो मो एषा चनाममत्॥ drāpe andhasaspate daridrannīlalohita, eṣāṁ puruṣāṇām...

=============================================================================================== Sunday 03, Aug 2025, 19:15. Article Scriptures The Laws and the Stages of Life in Hinduism: 1.1. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================ 1. The Purusharthas: Life has been always regarded in India as a process of progressive self-transcendence from the realm of matter (Annamaya-Jivatva) to the realisation of supreme spiritual bliss (Parama-Ananda). Human values and ends in life have been classified into the scheme of the fourfold pursuit (Purushartha) of existence, viz., the practice of righteousness and goodness (Dharma), the effort towards earning of the necessary material values (Artha), the fulfilment of permissible desires through honest means (Kama), and the endeavour for the final salvation of the soul (Moksha). This analysis is based on a broad understanding of the different levels of individuals in relation to ...

  ============================================================================================= Thursday 31, July 2025, 20:30. Commentary on the Bhagavadgita-  Swami Krishnananda. Discourse 1:  The First Chapter: Vishada Yoga, The Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit: -1. ============================================================================================= The Bhagavadgita is a system of meditation. It is not a story that is being told to us of what might have happened centuries back. It is a concentrated spiritual guide which takes us from the very level in which we find ourselves at any given moment of time, and enables us to rise from that level to the next higher level, from the next higher level to a further higher level, and so on, in a graduated manner. There is no double promotion or sudden jumps in the teachings of the Bhagavadgita. In a way, we may say that the Bhagavadgita starts with the worst of conditions that we can think of. What can be worse than b...