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Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 3.3. Swami Krishnananda.

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==================================================================================================== Sunday, 08 November 2026, 16:15. Books Scriptures Bhagavadgita & Hinduism Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 3.3. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sanhkya Yoga: 3-3. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================================== Prakriti, which is the objectivity of the purusha, that is, consciousness, is constituted of three properties, called sattva, rajas and tamas. Tamas is inertia, pure inactivity; rajas is dynamism, distraction and action; and sattva is balance and harmony. The permutation and combination of these three gunas are the very substance of prakriti. The redness of a flower is a quality of the flower, but the redness itself is not the flower, whereas the three strands of a rope are not the quality of the rope, the strands themselves are the rope. In the same way, the three gunas that are mentioned—satt...
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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.3 - Swami Krishnananda.

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===================================================================================================== Friday, 06November 2026, 15:40 Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.3 Swami Krishnananda Chapter 1: The Vedas ======================================================================================================== The Concept of Law and Sacrifice in the Vedas: The Rig-Veda gives two code words: satya and rita, signifying the spiritual law as such and the law in its working process in the cosmos. While satya is the principle of integration rooted in the Absolute, rita is its application and function as the rule and order operating in the universe. Sometimes rita is interpreted as the original principle of being and satya its manifestation. The world is sustained by a just and inexorable law which is the decree of God for the well-being of all. Conformity with this law tends to material and spiritual progress and advancemen...
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The Tree of Life: 2.3-Swami Krishnananda.

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  ===================================================================================================== Wednesday, 4November 2026, 05:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Tree of Life: 2.3.  Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness -3. Swami Krishnananda ======================================================================================================= The whole secret of the success in life seems to be in the knowledge of the presence of something which is behind the varieties of the world experience, and not in the foolhardy pursuit of our intention to eat the fruits which the tree of life yields. The various experiences of pleasure, satisfaction, and grasping by the senses are the bondages of the individual. That is the bird. Every one of us is this bird. Ishvara and jiva, God and the individual, are both seated on the same tree. This tree is this body, our family, our community, our nation; this tree is the whole of mankind, the whole universe. All these are but the ...
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The Moksha Gita: Chapter: 8 -Slogas - 1 to 5. - by Swami Sivananda - Commentary by Swami Krishnananda

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  ================================================================================================== Monday, 02 November 2026, 18:00.  Books Bhagavad Gita & Hinduism The Moksha Gita: 8-   Swami Sivananda. Chapter 8: Ignorance and Wisdom -1. Slogas 1to5. Commentary:  Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================== 1. गुरुरुवाच ॥ अहं कायो मदीयोऽयं देहश्चयं सती मम । पुत्रोऽसौ मे च विप्रोऽहं स्थूलोऽहं पण्डितोऽप्यहम् ॥ कृष्णोऽहमिति मन्येत यः स बद्धोऽज्ञ एव च ॥१॥ 1. The Guru said: He who thinks "I am the body, This body is mine, She is my wife, He is my son, I am a Brahmin, I am fat, I am black, I am a Pundit" is an ignorant man. He is bound. The person who asserts the existence of separate beings is an ignorant man. His life is one of bondage merely. The length of time taken by an individual to possess a desired object is proportional to the intensity of the individual's feeling of identificat...
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The Tree of Life: 2.2 -Swami Krishnananda.

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  ===================================================================================================== Saturday, 31 October 2026, 05:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Tree of Life: 1.4.  Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness -2. Swami Krishnananda ======================================================================================================== Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness- 2. The avarana, as it is called in Vedantic parlance, is a screen over the reality which keeps us out of touch with it. That is what is known as ignorance. We are not only screened away from what is there but are presented with what is not there, so that we are made a double fool. Not only are we ignorant of the presence of God, but we are conscious of the presence of a world outside, so we are deceived in two ways. There is a double deception taking place at the same time. Not only are we completely cut off from the vital root essence, the parent of all things, which is sustaining u...
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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.- 2 Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================================== Tuesday 27, October 2026, 06:00 Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.2 Swami Krishnananda Chapter 1: The Vedas ============================================================================================= 1.The Vedas and Their Classification It is customary for historians of the philosophy and religion of India to commence their studies with the Rig-Veda, which is regarded as the earliest sacred text of ancient Indian culture. A study of the Vedas forms generally the beginning of an advanced learning in the philosophical and religious literature of India. The Rig-Veda is a book of metrical hymns and is divided into ten parts called Mandalas. Another division of the book is into eight sections called Ashtakas. The hymns of the Rig-Veda, called mantras, are powerfully constructed poems, with an amazing power of rhythm, spontaneity and ...
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Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 3.2. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ==================================================================================================== Monday 19, October 2026, 18:00. Books Scriptures Bhagavadgita & Hinduism Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 3.2. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sanhkya Yoga: 3-2. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================================== There is a philosophical doctrine called Sankhya, which counts the categories which constitute this world. It is derived from the word 'sankhya', which means computerising, counting, calculating and methodologically coming to a conclusion as to the number of principles that constitute this world. What is this building? We look at it, and it seems to be a mass indivisibly presented before us. But it is not an indivisible structure. It is made up of small constituents—brick and mortar, and steel and what not. The world is not as it appears to the eyes; it is a whitewash that we see, as t...
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