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Stabilising the Mind in God: The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita: 4. Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================= Friday 18, October 2024, 06:20. Article Scripture Stabilising the Mind in God: 4. The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on June 26, 1983) ======================================================================================= Be seated in a single posture, whatever be your comfortable posture. Sit, if possible, at the same time. If not, if you are a busy person, sit at any other time also when it is convenient, but for a uniform duration. If it is half an hour, let it be half an hour every day. If it is more, whatever the time be, stick to that duration. And tell the mind that now you are going to unite yourself, commune yourself with what is finally meaningful in this world. All meaning and all value, whatever is of any worth and significance in this world, is summed up and concentrated in this thing that you are now going to meditate upon: “Thus, my dear mind, do not
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The Importance of the Bhagavadgita - 3. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================================= Thursday 17, October 2024, 06:20. Article Scriptures The Importance of the Bhagavadgita - 3. Swami Krishnananda (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982.) ========================================================================================== The difficulty of Arjuna at the commencement of the war has been rightly considered as similar to, or rather identical with, the astonishing problem facing a spiritual seeker in his arduous struggle to move towards God and His realisation. Where to demarcate this point of difference between the ordinary conversation that might have taken place between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, and where it overcame this limit, we cannot say. All this is beyond us. However, it is certain that it grew into terrible intensity as it reached the Ninth or the Tenth Chapter perhaps, and it burst all boundaries when it reached the Eleventh. When the Eleventh Chapter records
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Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God - Chapter-2.66: Swami Mukundananda.

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=================================================================================== Wednesday 16, October 2024. 06:20. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam:66. The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Swami Mukundananda. ===================================================================================== Slogam - 66: "Nasti buddhir-ayuktasya na chayuktasya bhavana na chabhavayatah shantir ashantasya kutah sukham." ==================================================================================== na—not;  asti—is;  buddhih—intellect;  ayuktasya—not united;  na—not;  cha—and;  ayuktasya—not united;  bhavana—contemplation;  na—nor;  cha—and;  abhavayatah—for those not united;  shantih—peace;  ashntasya—of the unpeaceful;  kutah—where;  sukham—happiness. ====================================================================================== Translation: BG 2.66:  "But an undisciplined person, who has not controlled the mind and senses, can neither have a resolute intell
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A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 53 - Swami Krishnananda.

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===================================================================================== Tuesday 15, October 2024, 06:40. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 9: The Yoga of Meditation - 3. Swami Krishnananda Post-53. ===================================================================================== Now the object is very far away from you; the world does not seem to have any kind of living connection with you. One person has no relation to another person; each person is standing outside like a planet in the sky, apparently not having anything to do with another. That I have no connection with you, that the subject has no relation to the object, that the world is totally outside, is apparent. In this physical world, there seems to be a total disconnection of the subject and the object. Things can be lost, there can be bereavement, and it is difficult to possess anything. But as you rise higher and higher in the qualitative fields of the upper realms, the relationship between you and th
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BHAGAVAD GEETA: 91 - Swami Advayananda.

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Chinmaya Mission:  "Life Changers" by Swami Swaroopananda distills spiritual wisdom into practical lessons, offering clarity on navigating life’s challenges with grace. What impresses readers most about this collection of thoughts is Swamiji's ability to make complex ideas accessible and relevant to the modern world. This books feels like a personal conversation, guiding one to greater self-awareness and purpose.  Get your book here:  India: https://eshop.chinmayamission.com/ UK: https://www.chinmayabooks.com/ US: https://chinmayapublications.com/ ==================================================================================== BHAGAVAD GEETA Chapter - 2 Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas) “Yoga of the SUPREME SELF” Sri Veda Vyasaji ====================================================================================== Sunday 13, October 2024, 06:10. Discourse 2 | Yoga of the Supreme Self   2.12   THE MAN OF STEADY WISDOM  (Slogas 54-67, 14 No. Slogam - 67: Q4: The Sadhaka Facing
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The Bhagavadgita's Message of Knowledge and Action: 5. Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================= Saturday 12, October 2024, 06:15. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita's Message of Knowledge and Action: 5.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) ======================================================================================= The Bhagavadgita tells us that action does not wholly proceed from our personality, though our personality is the channel of the projection of the action. It is only a channel of the motivation of a wider force which is invisible to the senses. An electric bulb is shining here. Can we say it is only the bulb that is responsible for the light? There is a filament inside which is heated up by a force which is called electricity. Where is the electricity? It is coming through a wire. From where has the wire come? It was manufactured by somebody. And who has fitted it? Somebody else. What is its connection with the powerhouse, and who is working there? So
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Stabilising the Mind in God: The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita: 3. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================================= Friday 11, September 2024, 06:20. Article Scripture Stabilising the Mind in God: 3. The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on June 26, 1983) ======================================================================================= When we contemplate or even think of God in our prayers, rarely do we feel that God is omnipresence or nonrelative ultimacy. We have our own notion of God. Let each one stick to that notion only; that is quite all right. Do you believe that God is ultimate? Yes, no one can gainsay this great requirement. You have your own concept, notion and idea of the Creator of the universe. Adhere your mind to that notion only. We are one hundred people sitting here and we may have one hundred ideas of the Creator of the cosmos. Let each one stick to that idea only, whether or not there is concurrence of this idea. There is no harm if your idea or notion of
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