Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  =================================================================================== Thursday 10, July 2025, 05:00. Books  Bhagavadgita & Hinduism Canons of a Perfect Life: 9 (Chapter & Slokam no in brackets) Swami Krishnananda Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita END. ===================================================================================== 63.The Universe Is Like a Widespread Tree with Its Ramifications Below and Its Roots in God, Who Is Its Goal: *They (the wise) speak of the Indestructible Peepul Tree having its roots above and branches below, whose leaves are the sacred hymns; he who knows it is a knower of the Vedas. (XV.1) *Then, (after having cut asunder this metaphorical tree of Samsara), That goal should be sought for, whither having gone none returns again: 'I seek refuge in That Primeval Purusha Whence streamed forth the ancient activity or energy.' (XV.4) *Two Beings (Purushas) there are in this world, the perishable and the im...

  ===================================================================================== Tuesday 08, July 2025, 19:40. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 3.3. Discourse: 3. Severing the Root of this Tree of Life:3 Swami Krishnananda.  ===================================================================================== Note: "The Bhagavad Gita discusses the concept of Varnashrama, not as a rigid caste system based on birth, but as a system of social organization based on individual qualities and duties. Krishna explains that the four varnas (Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra) are created based on "guna" (qualities) and "karma" (actions). While the Gita acknowledges the existence of these divisions, it emphasizes that one can attain liberation (Moksha) through fulfilling one's prescribed duties (Swadharma) within their respective varna, regardless of their birth" ================================================================================...

  ========================================================================================== Sunday 06, July 2025, 19:25. The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita: 1.1:  Chapter 1: This Drama of Life - 1. Swami Krishnananda ======================================================================================== Chapter 1: This Drama of Life -1. When you come to a place like this, you have to re-orientate your minds, to a large extent, to an appreciable extent. There is a specific purpose for which you have come here to this Academy, to this Divine Life Society Ashram. To some of you, the purpose of your coming here and attending these classes may be clear; to some, it may be nebulous – not wholly perspicuous. There is something which this Academy is endeavouring to cater to the minds of people like you. This 'something' which this Ashram, this Academy, is trying to furnish you with, is perhaps what you actually need in life. You may be under the impression that there are thousands ...

  ==================================================================================== Saturday 05, July 2025. 20:00. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 17. Slogam-17. Swami Mukundananda. ===================================================================================== Slogam-17: "yas tvatma-ratir eva syad atma-triptash cha manavah atmanyeva cha santushtas tasya karyam na vidyate." =================================================================================== Translation: yaḥ—who;  tu—but;  ātma-ratiḥ—rejoice in the self;  eva—certainly;  syāt—is;  ātma-tṛiptaḥ—self-satisfied;  cha—and;  mānavaḥ—human being;  ātmani—in the self;  eva—certainly;  cha—and;  santuṣhṭaḥ—satisfied;  tasya—his;  kāryam—duty;  na—not;  vidyate—exist ========================================================================================== BG 3.17: Translaion:  "But those who rejoice i...

============================================================================================== Friday 04, July 2025, 19:00. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 2-3. Chapter 2: The Upanishads: 2.The Quest for Reality:3. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================== The doctrine of creation delineated up to this stage is as far as what can be gathered into a systematic whole from the different statements on the subject made in the Upanishads. But this scheme of creation is developed into a further detail of completeness in the Epics and, especially, the Puranas, which we can consider here with benefit, though these developments are not to be seen in the creation theories of the Upanishads. Together with the senses of knowledge and organs of action, and their locations in the body of the individual, there is the creation of their physical counterparts, viz., Ether, Ai...