Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01/09/2019 THE YOGA OF RENUNCIATION OF ACTION (KARMA SANYASA YOGAM) 5.    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    In spite of Sri Krishna’s clear instructions, Arjuna still seems to be bewildered. He wants to know conclusively which is superior, the path of action or the path of renunciation of action.     The Lord says that both the paths lead to the highest goal of God-realisation. In both cases the final realisation of the Atman is the aim, but the path of Karma Yoga is superior. Actually there is no real difference between the two.     Krishna further asserts that perfection can be attained and one can be established in the Atman only aft...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31/08/2019 (Spoken on September 18th, 1974.) 7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recap : The Bhagavadgita takes us into a vaster realm of a wider cosmos, I should say, of which you are a citizen because you are ruled by the government of the universe. Just as you have a constitution for your own country, there is a constitution for the entire universe, according to which every leaf moves, and every wisp of wind blows. Nothing can happen in this world unless it is ordained and permitted by the constitution of the setup of the whole cosmos, of which you are an integral part. You cannot isolate yourself from that. So self-discipline, according to the Bhagavadgita, does not merely mean individual bodily, psychol...

======================================================================== ========================================================================= 30/08/2019 10. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recap : It is impossible to recount the many lilas in the Uttarardha in a few minutes. When the Kamsa Vadham was over, Sri Krishna sent Akrura to Dhritarashtra to enquire about the welfare of the Pandavas. He had not forgotten them. Sri Krishna had not seen either the Pandava brothers or the Kurus even once until the idea came to him to enquire about their fate, because he heard that they were about to be burnt in the lakshagraha  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Continue reading : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 29/08/2019 (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) A Synthesis of Thought and Action-8. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recap : A Synthesis of Thought and Action-7. dated - 07/07/2019 Truth succeeds; untruth will never succeed. And what is the truth? The Plenum is the truth. And what is the Plenum? Wherein you are not to look upon anything as an isolated something or a disjointed object separated from your own existence, that is the Plenum. Read further : If this is the truth, all your pleasures and pains should be untruth. Therefore, Arjuna, pleasure and pain cannot become the standard of judging the rectitude or otherwise of an action. That would be to base the action on a false foundation. You have to base your action on the concept of du...

========================================================================  ======================================================================== 28/08/2019 The Tree of Life :  Swami Krishnananda 2.The Search For Wholeness -3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Vedic knowledge, therefore, is rooted in the Supreme Brahman, the Absolute, but it expands itself also to the minutest details of relative experience, so when we touch any part of the tree of life we have touched everything conceivable, everything that exists, and we are part and parcel of the ramifications of this tree of life. We, everyone here seated in this hall, are expressions of this tree of life; it may be leaves, it may be flowers, it may be fruits, it may be anything belonging to this tree as its vital essence. To touch any part of this tree is to touch the whole of the tree, so every one of us is everything...

========================================================================= ========================================================================= 12/08/2019 Chapter 2: The Battlefield of Life -9. ========================================================================= There should be a strong organising force, a Central Government, to establish a central administration in the cosmos, and, as a consequence thereof, in our own selves and in society. This is to enter into the field of Yoga. We generally argue in terms of human society or human relationship, and not in the light of reason and the higher understanding. We have a poor reason and a sentimental argument to justify our social conditions, and we have not got the understanding or the reason enough to awaken ourselves to the existence of the higher power of dharma, the power of God, the law of the universe. The Bhagavadgita takes its stand as a good teacher in a school or a college, and leads us by our hand, by degre...