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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.4 - Swami Krishnananda.

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============================================================================================== Thursday, 12November 2026, 20:30 Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.4 Swami Krishnananda Chapter 2: The Upanishads ================================================================================================= The Period of Transition: The predominant tone of the Samhitas and Brahmanas was one of piety and ceremonialism, interspersed with raptures of religious feeling and contemplative ecstasy, which led occasionally to a spiritual vision of the Virat or the Cosmic Almighty. Though the undercurrent of the thought of the Vedic Rishis had an overtone of a spiritual vision in the things of the world, and their idea of sacrifice reached its zenith in a meditation on the Universe itself as a sacrifice of the Supreme Purusha, the tendency to material sacrifices or yajnas for propitiating the gods hymned in the Samhitas still conti...
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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharatham and the Bhagavadgita: 3.2. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  =================================================================================================== Tuesday, 10 November 2026, 15:45. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharatham and the Bhagavadgita: 3.2. Chapter 3: The World Is the Face of God-2.  Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================== In the process of evolution there is a transfiguration of the structure of individuality. The individuality transforms itself in the process of evolution, and simultaneously with this transformation, the notions, the ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, pleasure and pain also change. What is pleasant today need not be pleasant even to me, myself tomorrow, on account of the change of my attitude to things due to a shift of emphasis in the process of evolution. This is commonplace and does not require much commentary. Hence we should not be under the erroneous notion that a jubila...
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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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