Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

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

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

================================================================================================== Saturday 17, October 2026,06:00.  Books Bhagavad Gita & Hinduism The Moksha Gita: 7-   Swami Sivananda. Chapter 7: The Process of Sadhana: 26 to 30. Commentary:  Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================== संनियम्येन्द्रियग्रामं सदोद्यद्भावनां जहि । निमज्जय मनोऽन्तस्थे ब्रह्मण्येवमतन्द्रितः ॥ येनानुभवितुं स्वस्य ब्रह्मणैक्यं त्वमर्हसि ॥२६॥ 26.  Restrain the senses. Silence the bubbling thoughts. Drown the mind in Brahman, who is within. Now you can realise your identity with Brahman. The restraining of the senses is not done through forced suppression. No natural desire or instinctive impulse can be suppressed with might without allowing it to torment the individual at a later date. It is not punishing but coaxing the senses through discriminative understanding that can make them rest at...

  =================================================================================================== Tuesday 13, October 2026, 06:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharatham and the Bhagavadgita: 3.1. Swami Krishnananda Chapter 3: The World Is the Face of God-1.  ============================================================================================== Chapter 3: The World Is the Face of God -1. In the journey of spiritual practice, there are many halting places on the way. It is not a direct flight without any stop in-between. At the very inception of this endeavour known as spiritual sadhana, there is an upheaval of the powers of aspiration, an innocent longing for God and a confidence that one would reach God—perhaps the same kind of confidence that a child has in catching the moon. The innocence and the credulity do not permit the acceptance of the difficulties involved in this pursuit. There is simplicity, sincerity and honesty cou...

======================================================================================================== Saturday 10, October 2026, 06:00 A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.1 Swami Krishnananda 1.Introduction: 1. ========================================================================================================= The development of religious and philosophic thought in India comprises a many-sided presentation of the higher aspirations in man. While the Veda-Samhitas embody the prayers of the human spirit to the Universal Reality revealed in creation and record the vision of the One in the many, the Upanishads represent an attempt to dive into the One from the forms of the many. Though modern history sees an advance of thought from the Samhitas to the Upanishads, tradition does not permit any such bifurcation and sees in them two types of the vision of Reality, the former emphasising its aspect as creation and the latter its being, as it is. There is, n...

================================================================================================== Wednesday 07, October 2026, 06:00. Books Scriptures Bhagavadgita & Hinduism Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 3.1. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sanhkya Yoga -1. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================== Discourse 4: The Second Chapter Continues – How to Live in the World-1. 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 f...