Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

================================================================================ Saturday 21, December 2024, 19:50. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita in a Nutshell: 4. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on November 3rd, 1973.) ================================================================================ In the Yoga Vasishtha, Vasishtha mentions to Rama:  "ardhaprabuddhasya sarvam brahmeti yo vadet, mahanarakajālesu sa tena viniyojitah": If you even talk of the immortality of the soul and the absoluteness of God to a half-baked mind, both you and that man will go to hell – the teacher and the student both. So do not tell truths which cannot be grasped, and this is precisely the warning given by Bhagavan Sri Krishna in the Bhagavadgita.  "Na buddhibhedam janayed ajnanam karmasamginam" (BG 3.26): Do not disturb the minds of people by telling great truths. It may be a great truth, but you have spoiled the man by your truth.  It is like allowing a man to catch fish by sayi...

===================================================================================== Friday 20, December 2024. 10:50. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: The Yogam of Action: Swami Mukundananda. ====================================================================================== Karma Yogam: Introduction: Sri Krishna expounds on karm yogm or the yogam of action in this chapter. He explains to Arjun that nobody can remain without action, even for a moment. Bound by their inherent modes of nature, all beings are always engaged in some work. Superior are those who practice karm yog and continue to work diligently to fulfill their responsibilities externally, but internally they are unattached to them. However, the hypocrites display external renunciation but internally dwell upon the objects of their senses. Shree Krishna says that all living beings are an integral part of God’s creation and have roles and responsibilities to fulfill. Vedas prescribe performing yajña to pleas...

======================================================================================== Thursday 19, December 2024, 06:10. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 10: The Hidden Meaning of the Seventh Chapter of the Gita-1 Swami Krishnananda Post-60. ======================================================================================= Chapter 10: The Hidden Meaning of the Seventh Chapter of the Gita-1. The first six chapters of the Bhagavadgita stand by themselves as unique teachings on the integration of the human personality, which process was described gradually right from the First Chapter. The Gita, as a very good psychologist and a master teacher to students, takes its stand on the level of the student, and endeavours to gradually raise the mind of the student from that pedestal on which the student stands. Though the student is Arjuna in this particular context, the student is every one of us, humanity in general. Arjuna finds himself in a highly non-aligned and disturbed circum...

  ============================================================================ Wednesday 18, December 2024, 11:10. Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 1. Discourse 1: The Colophon of the Bhagavadgita-1. Swami Krishnananda ============================================================================ Brahmavidyayam yogasastre Srikrisharjuna samvade.  These words occur at the end of each chapter of the Bhagavadgita. Those who do not know Sanskrit might not have even noticed this. Those who know Sanskrit just take it for granted and bypass it as something that needs to be recited at the end of each chapter, whatever the reason may be. But there is no redundant word in the Bhagavadgita. There is nothing that can be bypassed or considered as introductory, just to be glossed over. Even if there is a well-known apostrophe—SrIbhagavAn-uvAca—that also has a meaning by itself. What does the Bhagavadgita teach? It teaches three things:  brahmavidyayam yogasastre Srikrishnarjuna samvade...

======================================================================================= Tuesday 17, December 2024, 12:18. The Moksha Gita: by Swami Sivananda:  Commentary by Swami Krishnananda. 1.Introduction-1 ======================================================================================== Introduction-1. This is "Moksha Gita" or the "Song of Liberation." By practising its teachings one gets liberated from all bondage and becomes Immortal. Moksha Gita is an exhaustive treatise of the highest wisdom of the Advaita Vedanta. One cannot but be transformed into a higher spiritual state, after reading this blessed Gita. A study of Moksha Gita alone is enough to guide a sincere aspirant in the path of Jnana-Yoga. It will clear all his doubts and raise him to the Truth of Self-Consciousness. Having studied, understood and realised this highly spiritual philosophy, one does not stand in need of any other performance for Liberation. It will lead him to the highest me...

  ========================================================================================== Monday 16, December 2024, 10:35. Article Srimad Bhagavad Gita, The Essence of Dharma: 1. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 11th, 1973) =========================================================================================== The duty of man depends upon the aim of life. Whatever we are supposed to do in our life is directed by the purpose for which we are existing. Aimless activity is unthinkable. All our efforts, professions and works are somehow or other directed to the achievement of an end, a goal or a purpose. Unless we are conscious and clear about the aim of our life, it would be difficult for us to determine the nature of our duties in life. In India especially, ethics is based on metaphysics. The conduct of life is rooted in the concept of existence. Now, the purpose of life, or the aim of life, is again dependent upon the nature of the universe. How is the universe constitu...