Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================================================================================================= Thursday 03, March 2025, 13:00. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.2 1. INTRODUCTION-2. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================================================================== The Bhagavadgita is a part of the Mahabharata and thus occurs in the context of an Epic, and so it is called a smriti (secondary revelation), as distinguished from the sruti (primary revelation), which are the Vedas and the Upanishads. Yet, the Gita plays a unique role in the history of religious and philosophic thought. The Upanishads are like an extensive forest ranging over a wide area and covering almost everything which may be said to be of the nature of reality. The Bhagavadgita is, on the other hand, a kind of garden of se...

  =========================================================================================================================================== Sunday 16, March 2025, 11:25.  Books  Srimad Bhagavad Gita Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals: 1.3  1.Introduction-2. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================================================================== The Svetasvatara Upanishad says, “Thou art the Woman”, “Thou art the Man”, “Thou art Girl”, “Thou art Boy”, “Thou deceiveth us as the old man tottering with the stick”, “Thou moveth everywhere, in the form of everything, in all directions”, “Thou art the dark-blue Butterfly, and the Green Parrot with red eyes”, “Thou art the Thunder Cloud, the Seasons and the Oceans”, “Thou art without beginning and beyond all Time and Space”, “Thou art That from which all the Universes are born”. “That alone is Fire. That is the Sun. That is Air. That is the Moon. Th...

  ============================================================================================================================================ Monday 31, March 2025, 10:45. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita: A Synthesis of Thought and Action: 3. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) ============================================================================================================================================== Every verse of the Gita points to a particular corner of human life and tries to throw a floodlight into that corner. While our activities are manifold, they can be classified under certain primary heads or groups so that a study of these principle heads of our activities would be tantamount to a study of the entire life of every one of us. As I pointed out a little earlier, we have to think before we act. It would not be proper for us to act first and repentantly think later on. Most of us try to go headlong into an activity without proper though...

========================================================================================================================================== Sunday 30, arch 2025, 12:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:  (The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita): 1.3 1.Introduction -3. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================================================================== We know how happy we are to be members in a single family of brothers, sisters, father, mother, and so on. We feel happy by our coordination with other members in the family, notwithstanding the fact each one has an independence. It does not mean that any member of the family will subjugate another. There is no such intention of any member in a house. One brother will not consider another brother as a subordinate. Yet, the very fact of there being cooperation, which gives them so much satisfaction and security, is an automatic restriction on each...

===================================================================================================== Saturday 29, March 2025, 17:13 Scriptures The Essence of Dharma: 9. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 11th, 1973) ====================================================================================================== Now, dharma, artha, kama, moksha, the concept of the fourfold duty of man, is also very interesting. Dharma is duty, dharma is religion, dharma is justice, dharma is law. Dharma cannot be translated. Artha is material value. Anything that is materially significant for life is called artha. It does not mean merely gold and silver or coins and currency notes. Any kind of material significance or value in life is called artha, while dharma is the law that regulates the acquisitions and operations of this material value and all other values. Kama is the fulfilment of the vital value, the emotional value, and the personal value of the human being. Moksha, I have already ex...

================================================================================================= Friday 28, March 2025, 11:25. Article Scriptures Hinduism and the Vedanta 2. Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================= II At the time of death, the individuality does not get dissolved, though the physical constituents may be separated and dissolved. What is it that takes rebirth? It cannot be the body, because it is discarded and it is dissolved into the physical elements of which it is composed. It cannot also be the essential Self, the Atman, because the Atman is a Universal Presence which cannot be said to be subject to transformation of any kind, such as transmigration. What else transmigrates? The peculiar thing called the individual is neither the body nor the Atman. It is a strange admixture of localised self-affirmation in terms of space and time, and this principle of self-affirmation is impossible to def...