Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

========================================================================  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  12/09/2019. Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-14. Slokam-1. Chapter-14. GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction of Chater-14.: In chapter fourteen Lord Krishna reveals matters pertaining goodness, passsion and nescience which everything in the material existence is influenced by. He gives pertinent details on the essential characteristics of each individually, their cause, the level of their potency, how they influence a living entity affected by them as well as the signs of one who has risen above them. Here he clearly advises to relinquish oneself from ignorance and passion and adopt the path of pure goodness until aquiring the ability to transcen...

========================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11/09/2019. Chapter 1: Introduction-7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.1 Now, the Bhagavad Gita is supposed to be a recipe for the solution of the problems of every person. This is something unique about it. It is not intended for me or for you or for anybody; it is supposed to be a universally applicable recipe for the ills of mankind. This is a specialty about it, and that makes it very difficult to understand what its intentions are, because we have never heard that one recipe can be prescribed for every kind of difficulty. Yet, there is a norm that can be prescribed as a basic precondition for individual steps that we may have to take in detail for day-to-day engagement. 7.2 There is wh...

 =======================================================================  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  10/09/2019. Commentary on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita-1.1 : Swami Krishnananda Discourse 1: The Colophon of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita-1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.1 "Brahmavidyayam yogasastre srikrshnarjunasamvade." These words occur at the end of each chapter of the Bhagavadgita. Those who do not know Sanskrit might not have even noticed this. Those who know Sanskrit just take it for granted and bypass it as something that needs to be recited at the end of each chapter, whatever the reason may be. But there is no redundant word in the Bhagavadgita. There is nothing that can be bypassed or considered as introductory, just to be glossed over. Even if there is a well-known ...

 ========================================================================  ==========================================================================  09/09/2019 Chapter 2: The Battlefield of Life -10. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are faced with a warring situation and our activities in daily life are our efforts to face the battle. The work that we do in our office, the labour that we put forth in a factory, or any other work that we do in any walk of life, is the effort we put forth to resolve a conflict and solve a situation. But we do not always do it properly, and so a factory worker need not be happy, and an office-goer need not be satisfied. Our activities need not bring us happiness. We stoop down to the state of utter hopelessness and wretchedness, because we have not found time to walk with the light of reason and the justice of the universe. We cannot see...

======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08/09/2019 Srimad Bhagavad Gita Chapter-1.The Yogam of the Despondency of Arjuna -2. Slokam-6 to 15 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam- 6. "Yudhaamanyushcha vikraanta uttamaujaashcha veeryavaan; Saubhadro draupadeyaashcha sarva eva mahaarathaah." The strong Yudhamanyu and the brave Uttamaujas, the son of Subhadra (Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna), and the sons of Draupadi, all of great chariots (great heroes). 7. "Asmaakam tu vishishtaa ye taan nibodha dwijottama; Naayakaah mama sainyasya samjnaartham taan braveemi te."  Know also, O best among the twice-born, the names of those who are the most distinguished amongst ourselves, the leaders of my army! These I name to thee for t...

======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07/09/2019 (Spoken at a conference in Delhi on December 27, 1973.) 2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The human predicament is portrayed in all its colours and patterns at the very outset, in the very commencement of this gospel, the Bhagavad Gita, which is meant to be an instruction to man in all his walks of life. The problem of man is the conflict of life. Every moment of time we are in a state of conflict. We are in a dilemma. We are sometimes between the devil and the deep sea, as they say. We are caught by two horns of a dilemma, between which we cannot easily make a choice. Sometimes we do not know whether it is better to live or to die. People who have suffered life know what it actuall...

======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Spoken on July 15, 1979.) 06/09/2019. 4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The inimical attitude is to be distinguished from the spirit of renunciation. We do not renounce the world because the world is an enemy. The renunciation is a spirit rather than an action. It is not something that we do, but what we think in our mind. While this new avenue of thought may require a physical changing of atmosphere, the emphasis should be on the thought rather than on the action. The mind has not been able to adapt itself with the conditions of life due to its ignorance of its own relationships with people outside and things in general. The duty that we are expected to perform in the world, the so-called...

========================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05/09/2019 3. The Scripture for All ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A scripture can be approached in several aspects. Specially such a universal scripture as the Gita can be and has been approached by people from numberless angles, each trying to seek in the Gita light for his particular view of life, for his particular philosophy of life. People of absolutely divergent temperaments, people of widely varying conceptions and different conclusions on similar questions, have all sought to find in the Gita support for their peculiar views. A Karma Yogin approaches the Gita and in it finds a support for the cause of Karma Yoga. A devout Bhakta approaches the Gita and his joy is unbounded that the G...

========================================================================  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04/09/2019. (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982.) 8. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The vision was granted. “The whole sky was lit up with light, and thousands of suns arose, as it were,” said the poet. What else can be said? Thousands of suns are nobodies before this light, but we have to say something. What else can we say? We are like frogs in a well and the ocean is so big, but whatever we say, it cannot be equal to the actual ocean. So we may say it is like thousands of suns or millions of suns, but that cannot be an adequate description of God’s glory. We have not seen any light greater than the sun’s light, so we can only multiply the sun’s light arithmetically an...

======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03/09/2019 (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) 5. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.1 What is karma yogam? It is an intelligent action, not a foolish action; it is an action that is engendered by a correct understanding of all the factors involved in our relationship with the entire atmosphere in which we are placed. This is a very difficult thing. You may be thinking, “What is it that you are saying? How am I to understand the implications of all the aspects of my relationship with the total atmosphere in which I am placed? What is this atmosphere?” 5.2 The Bhagavadgita tells us sankhya is to precede yoga or, in other words, knowledge is to precede action. In the terminology of the Bha...

========================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02/09/2019. Chapter-1. Introduction to Bhagavad Gita-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two forces in this world, upon a balancing of which everything functions. They may be designated as the positive and the negative powers of nature, or the subjective and the objective sides of experience. There are two sides for everything in this world: one which receives, and another which is received; that which is conscious of an act taking place, and the object towards which the action is supposed to take place. Philosophically, these phases of experience, or activity of force, are known as the subjective phase and the objective phase. There is a world in front of you, and you are also there...