Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ==================================================================================================== Sunday 02, Aug 2026, 18:30.        Books 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 is an inadequate view, b...

==================================================================================================== Monday 31, July 2026, 19:50. Books Scriptures Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda ==================================================================================================== Brahma-vidya is an intricate subject. It is not just repeating some words of the Upanishads or the Brahma Sutras or even the Gita. It is the entry of the consciousness into the very import of the teaching, which is suggested in many of the verses of the Bhagavadgita itself. Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti (7.7); aham ātmā guḍākeśa sarvabhūtāśayasthitaḥ (10.20); paśya me pārtha rūpāṇi śataśo'tha sahastraśaḥ (11.5); divyaṁ dadāmi te cakṣuḥ paśya me yogam aiśvaram (11.8); jñeyaṁ yat tat pravakṣyāmi yaj jñātvāmṛtam aśnute, anādimat paraṁ brahma na sat tan nāsad ucyate (13.12); sarvataḥ- pāṇipādaṁ tat sarvato'kṣiśiromukham, sarvataḥśrutimal loke sarvam āvṛtya tiṣṭhati (13.13): The T...

   =================================================================================================== Thursday 30, July 2026, 17:00. Article Scriptures  The Philosophy of the Karma Yoga of the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on July 15, 1979) Post - 2. ==================================================================================================== Karma yoga is a system of internal training, an educational career into which we get introduced, and it is much more this than the art of solidarity that we are trying to bring about in the world. The world cannot be changed. It is just as it is. It has not changed for centuries and it is not going to change, but the understanding of it changes. The knowledge that we have about the world increases as the training continues further and further, and we are able to handle situations better. For this purpose it is that we are asked to perform our duty. Our getting fed up with the work in which we are engaged is, ag...

  ================================================================================================= Tuesday 28, July 2026, 08:20. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India -7. Chapter 2: The Upanishads:4. Swami Krishnananda Post-8. ==================================================================================================== Eschatology: Continued  The soul with desire of some kind or the other departs through the various nerve-passages of the subtle body, while the spiritually illumined soul passes through the Sushumna nerve-current and reaches Brahmaloka, via the shining region of the Sun. The Chhandogya Upanishad describes the stages of the passage of the soul on its way to Brahmaloka. The statements on this subject scattered over through the Upanishads, when grouped in an order, amount to the following description of the path, called Devayana or the path of the gods. The soul reaches the deity of flame (fire or li...

  Swami Chinmayananda On this sacred Ashadhi Ekadashi, as millions of Varkaris reach the holy abode of Lord Vitthala in Pandharpur, let us remember what truly brought Sant Dnyaneshwar so close to God. Despite rejection and suffering, Sant Dnyaneshwar chose compassion over resentment, devotion over despair, and wisdom over worldly recognition.  It wasn't the miracle of making a buffalo chant the Vedas. It wasn't the yogic powers he displayed. It was his unwavering faith, constant chanting of Hari Nama, humility in the face of adversity, and his complete assimilation of the Bhagavad Gita. As Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda often reminded us, the Bhagavad Gita is not meant merely to be read it is meant to be lived. This Ashadhi Ekadashi, don't just fast from food. Fast from anger, ego, and selfishness. Live one teaching of the Bhagavad Gita today and let that become your offering at the feet of Lord Vitthala. Which Gita teaching will you practise today? Share it in the comments. =...