Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ============================================================================================== Monday 15, December 2025, 20:30. Article Spirituality The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 5. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on October 14, 1984) Post-5. ================================================================================================ In a way we may say the performance of duty is what is called karma yoga. What is duty? It has never been understood properly because it is mixed up with rights or expectations. Wherever there is the necessity to perform duty, there is always a psychological connection with the result that has to follow from the performance of that duty, and this is exactly what is forbidden by this practice. We should not expect any result to follow because when there is an axe to grind even in the performance of our duty, this act becomes our motive, and then the duty is not our intention. How could we perform our duty wholeheartedly when...

================================================================================================ Saturday 13, December 2025, 20:15. Article Scriptures The Language of the Bhagavadgita: 5.  Swami Krishnananda (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982) ================================================================================================ You would have yourself observed that when you glance through any page, any verse, any word of the Bhagavadgita text, you would have received some inspiration when your spirits are drooping. When you are agony-ridden and distressed, and you see no meaning in things due to your sorrow, at that time when you open the Bhagavadgita you would have seen something scintillating, piercing, and projecting itself as a solution of your problem in a motherly, kindly affection. This is what I found, and everybody would have found it. The Bhagavadgita is principally God speaking to man, and when God speaks, you know what He will speak. Everything...

=============================================================================================== Tuesday 09, November 2025, 20:15. Article Scriptures The Three Types of Discipline of the Bhagavadgita: 4.  Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on September 18th, 1974) ================================================================================================= Therefore, we are not supposed to bring about the assemblage of mechanical parts in the discipline of our personality, because that would be an artificial life. We are supposed to conduct ourselves in such a way that our life is an art, a beauty, an attraction, so that our face beams with a joy that draws people towards us as if we are a magnet. Beauty is a source of attraction, and we become a source of beauty on account of the discipline spiritually conducted according to this novel doctrine of the Bhagavadgita. Now, this is not sufficient, and the next six chapters describe something much more. Whatever be the discipline that you ...

  ================================================================================================ Sunday 07, December 2025. 06:55. JIVANMUKTI VIVEKA:  Part 1:  Pramana Prakarana:  “The Evidence of Liberation” :  IN 5 PARTS:  THE ENQUIRY INTO LIBERATION  REFLECTIONS: Swami Gurubhaktananda  Based on the 55 Lectures delivered:  Swami Advayanandaji (referred to as “Swamiji” in the book),   In-charge, Chinmaya International Foundation, Veliyanad, Kerala.   from 10th June 2015 – 28th May 2016 ' The Central Purpose of Jivanmukti Viveka: The purpose of the entire text can be summed up in the following three points:  Post-6. ================================================================================================= PART 1A:   THE PADYA  (13 slogas on the Overview)    THE CLASSIFICATION of SANNYASA : =================================================================================================...

  =============================================================================================== Friday 05, December 2025, 05:30. Article Scriptures Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita - 4.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 24th, 1973) Post-4. ================================================================================================= Thus, these few slogas of the Bhagavadgita give us a conspectus of human life in its aspect of spiritual evolution. In the Fifteenth Chapter again we have various statements of the Gita bearing upon the same subject, if we read it with concentration of mind, taking us from the kshara to the akshara and to the purushottama. Dvāvimau puruṣau loke kṣaraś cākṣara eva ca, kṣaraḥ sarvāṇi bhūtāni kūṭastho'kṣara ucyate; uttamaḥ puruṣas tv anyaḥ paramātmety udāhṛtaḥ, yo lokatrayam āviśya bibharty avyaya īśvaraḥ (BG 15.16-17). This again is a theme on the very same truth. There is a kshara and an akshara; there is a perishable and...

==================================================================================================== Wednesday 14, November 2025, 17:50. Article Scriptures Stabilising the Mind in God: The Twelfth Chapter of the - Bhagavadgita: 4. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on June 26, 1983) Post-4. ==================================================================================================== The final way is ātma-nivedanam. That is the highest form of devotion, where realising the greatness, grandeur, magnificence, power, sweetness, compassion and mercy of God, you feel that you are no more. You have gone into utter extinction before the mighty radiance of these universal solar rays. These are the nine ways of bhakti, and Madhusudana Saraswati says that though these are not mentioned in detail in the Bhagavadgita, we have to read between the lines and understand that the indication is for devotion to God, and as these are the principal accepted ways of devotion, we may consider that this is the ...

  ============================================================================================== Sunday 30, November 2025, 20:00. Article Spirituality The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 4. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on October 14, 1984) Post-4. ================================================================================================ Dasya is total subjection of oneself to the magnificence of God. We feel that we are utter servants, as it were, and God is the Supreme Master. He is the Lord of all lords, the Father of all fathers, the Master of all masters, and therefore, we are His servants. Rarely, in extreme forms of elevated devotion, God is considered as one's own equal, like a friend. We speak to God, as it were, as if He is in front of us. There were some saints in India, and perhaps in the West also, who could speak to God and summon Him, and they could expect God to do anything for them. If they ask Him to bring a vegetable, He will bring it lik...