Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ============================================================================================================================================ 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...

============================================================================================================== Thursday 27, March 2025, 11:30. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita- 2-3.   Chapter 2: The Battlefield of Life -3. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================================ We are not always in a position to see the wholeness that is behind the pictures in the form of the drama of creation. We are the actors in this great field of activity called the cosmos. “The whole world is a stage,” said Shakespeare, and we are all the people who are acting on this stage, but we are not always conscious that we are playing the drama. This consciousness is wrested out of us by some unfortunate occurrence in us. Look at the fate of a person who is performing one role in a dramatic enactment. Suppose he forgets his relationship with the other performer. He behaves as if he is absolutely indep...

  ======================================================================================================= Wednesday 26, March 2025, 11:50. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 2.2. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 2. Swami Krishnananda.  ======================================================================================================= Some such thing can be taken as the analogy of human experience. We are on Earth and in heaven at the same time. This is the reason for the mystery of life. If we had been totally on Earth and stuck to the ground with our feet, with nothing of the heavenly in us, that would have been something to our satisfaction, at least empirically. But we can never be satisfied with anything in this world. Though we are conditioned entirely by whatever the world gives us, we are not wholly in this world. That particular aspect of our being, or that part of our personality which lifts us above the Earth, keeps us restless and unhappy. That which...