Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

================================================================================================= Saturday 05, Sep 2026, 18:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India -9. Chapter 3: The Itihasas and Puranas - 1. 2.History and Symbology as Modes of Teaching: Swami Krishnananda Post-11. ==================================================================================================== Chapter 3: The Itihasas and Puranas-3 3-The Metaphysics of History: Here it will be profitable to make a slight digression from the main subject and discuss the meaning of history and symbol, and how the charge of the non-historicity of the Epic figures cannot affect the main purpose of the Epics. Perhaps it is a feeling of many that non-historicity means non-existence. It is our purpose here to show that this erroneous notion is based on a wrong view of history itself. There is a cosmic significance of things, in addition to the historical and isola...

  ==================================================================================================== Wednesday 02, Sep  2026, 06:00. Books Scriptures Bhagavadgita & Hinduism Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 3.1. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sanhkya Yoga Swami Krishnananda ==================================================================================================== We look at the world only with our eyes, and judge things according to the report that is provided through the medium of the senses. All the information that we get of the world through the sense organs is therefore galvanised, and in many ways distorted. It is assumed that a person, as an individual, has to do something with this world. The business of life is, practically, an attempt to handle this world in some way—to harness it, and utilise it for one's own purpose. Here is the essential point. We have to use the world for our purposes. Through scientific advancement and technological disc...

==================================================================================================== Monday 31, Aug 2026, 06:00.        Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism Srimad Bhagavad Gita Daily Invocations:  7.The Significance of the Sri Sukta Swami Krishnananda. ===================================================================================================== 7.The Significance of the Sri Sukta: The Sri Sukta of the Veda is recited with benefit especially on Fridays, together with formal worship of the Goddess, for peace, plenty, and all-round prosperity. Lakshmi, who is usually identified as the Spouse of Vishnu, or Narayana, represents the glory and magnificence of God. Narayana and Lakshmi, actually, stand for Being and Becoming. The Creator in all His glory manifests Himself in the variety in creation. Generally, spiritual seekers make the mistake of imagining that God is outside the world and the world has to be rejected in spiritual pursuits. This i...

Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) is at Adi Sankara Nilayam. October 9, 2025· Kochi The Valedictory Ceremony of the second Vedanta Sadhaka Course (VSC) 2024–25 was held at Adi Sankara Nilayam. This year-long residential course, offered as a Post Graduate Diploma or Diploma in Advaita Vedanta by Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (CVV), was conducted under the guidance of Swami Sharadananda Sarasvati (Resident Acharya) and Br. Ved Chaitanya (Upa-acharya). The Course immersed the students in the timeless wisdom of Vedantic study, Sanskrit, spiritual disciplines and satsang in the maternal birth-home of Sri Adi Sankaracharya. The valedictory programme commenced with a traditional ceremonial welcome (Purnakumbha) and a nostalgic presentation, ‘Blessed Memories’, encapsulating the students’ journey through the year. The ceremonial lamp lighting, Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda’s Ashtottarashata Namavali Archana and arati created a devotional atmosphere. Following the invocation prayer, Swam...

==================================================================================================== Wednesday 26, Aug 2026, 20:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharatham and the Bhagavadgita: 1.2 Swami Krishnananda Chapter 1: The Plight of the Pandavas -2. ==================================================================================================== The Puranas, particularly, embark upon an expatiation of the war that takes place between the devas and asuras, in a cosmic sense. Often people say the devas and the asuras described in the Puranas are allegories of psychological functions in individuals. These are all artificial, modernised interpretations, under the impression that that reality is confined to one section of life alone. We cannot say that there is no cosmic counterpart of the individual psyche. The Puranas are right; the psychologists also are right. It is true that there is a Ganga flowing in us in the form of the sushumna nadi,...