Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

Chinmaya Mission:  January 13 at 5:21AM ·  Chinmaya Mission Madurai extended a generous gesture by providing essential ingredients, sugarcane, and lunch to 150 families of differently abled individuals. The initiative aimed to support these families by ensuring they had the necessary items to celebrate the Pongal festival. By offering these provisions, the trust helped make the celebration accessible, fostering a sense of community and joy. This act of kindness was part of the trust’s ongoing efforts to uplift and assist families in need, particularly those with differently abled members, creating an opportunity for them to experience the festive season with ease and togetherness. ====================================================================================================== Thursday 16, January 2025, 10:00. Article Srimad Bhagavad Gita, The Essence of Dharma: 4. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 11th, 1973) =========================================================...

======================================================================================================== Wednesday 15, January 2025, 10:00. Article Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Language of the Bhagavadgita: 4.  Swami Krishnananda. (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982) ============================================================================================ Many divine features seem to commingle in increasing the sanctity of this divine gospel, the Bhagavadgita: the great Lord speaking in whatever way he might have spoken, a great Lord, Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa, dictating, and a great Lord, Bhagavan Ganapati Ganesha, writing it down. This is like Ganga who touched the three great divine beings, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva. She flowed from the kamandal of Brahma, fell on the feet of Narayana, and then descended on the head of Siva. Just as we have the sacred Ganga who touched all the three great divine beings, likewise, the Bhagavadgita is a Ganga flowing before us as divine gra...

====================================================================================================== Tuesday 14, January 2025, 09:40. Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita- 4.   Chapter 1: The Universal Scope of the Bhagavadgita-4. Swami Krishnananda ========================================================================================= ========================================================================================== The Gita is, moreover, something delightfully wonderful and more incapable of ordinary imagination than what we have already noticed. It is a conversation between God and man, which meaning is conveyed by the phrase 'Krishnarjuna Samvada' in the colophon. Krishna and Arjuna are taken as occasions for bringing into highlight the relationship that exists between the Absolute and the relative. The epic has a special artistic grandeur and beauty of its own. That is the glory of a drama, and you enjoy it, though the enjoyment part of it h...

  ========================================================================================================= Monday 13, January 2025, 09:40. Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 1.5. Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life-5. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================= The comparison that the Bhagavadgita gives is significant. The growth of the tree is from the seed towards its trunk and branches and the various ramifications thereof. There is the impulse of external expression in the tree. It moves towards the sky, if we can take the example of our own trees on Earth. The seed of the tree bursts forth in the direction of an external expression of itself. The tendency of the seed is not to hibernate but to develop the roots and the tendril of the large tree that it is to become later on. The sap which is hidden in the seed urges itself forward in external forms, searching for the light of the sun in extend...

  ============================================================================================================ Sunday 12, January 2025, 09:45. BHAGAVAD GEETA -  Discourse 2 | Yoga of the Supreme Self - (72 Slogas)  Swami  Advayananda. ======================================================================================= Slogam 3: “Yield Not to Impotence”  1  Klaibyam maa sma gamah, Paartha, = Yield not to impotence, O Partha!  2  na etat tvayi upapadyate; = It does not befit thee.  3  kshudram hridaya-daurbalyam = This mean weakness of heart–  4  tyaktvaa uttishtha, Parantapa. = cast it off! Stand up, O scorcher of foes!  ======================================================================================== Krishna and Arjuna were of the same age, and they were close friends. This may help us to understand Sri Krishna’s frankness. In the fewest of words, Krishna tells Arjuna what He expects of him in these circumstances...

  ================================================================================================= Saturday 11, January 2025. 10:30. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 4. Swami Mukundananda. ====================================================================================== Slogam - 4. "na karmanam anarambhan naishkarmyam purusho ’shnute na cha sannyasanad eva siddhim samadhigachchhati." ======================================================================================= na—not;  karmanam—of actions.  anarambhat—by abstaining from.  naishkarmyam—freedom from karmic reactions.  purushah—a person;  ashnute—attains.  na—not.  cha—and.  sannyasanat—by renunciation.  eva—only.  siddhim—perfection.  samadhigachchhati—attains. ====================================================================================== Translation: BG 3.4:  "One cannot achieve freedom from karmic reactions by mer...