Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 01/12/2019. (Spoken on July 15, 1979.) 9. ======================================================================== Hence, again we come to the point of the Bhagavadgita concerning the freedom that we have to attain in respect of our own personal predilections, a fact that has been emphasised in the verse that we have been studying : nirmanamoha jitasabgadosha adhyatmanitya vinivrittakamah, dvandvair vimuktah sukhaduhakhasanjbair gacchhanty amudhah padam avyayam tat (B.G. 15.5). Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-15. Slokam-5. "Nirmana-moha jita-sanga-dosha adhyatma-nitya vinivritta-kamah dvandvair vimuktah sukha-duhkha-sanjnair gachchhanty amudhah padam avyayam ta" nih—free from; mana—vanity; mohah—delusion; jita—having overcome; sanga—attachment; doshah—evils; adhyatma-nityah—dwelling constantly in the self ...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 30/11/2019. Chapter-2. The Sabha Parva of the Mahabharatam-4. ======================================================================= I gave you a small example how we cannot believe that we are only human beings, notwithstanding the fact we are human beings. We have other ways of describing ourselves, and I gave you a specimen of how we describe ourselves. These differences arise due to the level in which we operate. Modern psychologists, parapsychologists, etc., tell us there are levels in us. Alpha, beta, and all these levels are supposed to be in our mental operations. These are modern terms, comparable to these levels I mentioned already in a traditional fashion. In what level are you functioning at present? This is for you to think deeply. “Am I now operating in the causal level, in the intellectual level, in the sens...

======================================================================== ======================================================================= 29/11/2019. 2.The Search For Wholeness - 7 ======================================================================= This tree of life is, therefore, a beautiful analogy. But the Bhagavadgita gives us a caution at the end of this analogy that we should not be busy eating the fruits of this tree, an analogy going further into a mantra in the Veda and a passage in the Upanishad where it is said that in this vast tree two birds are perched, perhaps on different branches. One bird is enjoying the beautiful berries, the fruits of this forbidden tree, and is sorrow-ridden, while the other bird is merely looking at the beauties of the various fruits of this tree and eating not. The mantram of the Veda says the blessedness of this indulgent fruit-eating bird lies in the turning of its attention towards the other bird—merely looking at it,...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 28/11/2019. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 7 ======================================================================== God speaks to man in the Bhagavadgita. It is not an individual Krishna that speaks to Arjuna. The symbology, the cosmicality, the inner suggestiveness that is immanent in the entire epic of the Mahabharatam is something that you have to read between the lines. Poets do not merely write lines; great poets also write something between the lines. That is the grandeur of the poet. You may read Valmiki and  Vyasa,  They do not merely tell you their words, but they also tell you something which they have not spoken through the words; that is the spirit of the poetry. It is that which is between the lines, in between the words, that stirs you, stimulates you, enraptures you and causes you ...

======================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/11/2019. (Spoken at a conference in Delhi on December 27, 1973.) Post - 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The army that Duryodhana chose was of no help to him. The very sight of Krishna was enough to paralyse their entire strength. The very look that Krishna cast upon the Kaurava forces withdrew half of their strength. Such was the hypnotising glance that he cast upon them because he was a magnet sitting there, weighty like the earth, immovable like a rock, knowing everything. Ishvara-tattva guiding the destinies of man was seated in the chariot of Arjuna. This Ishvara-tattvam is also located in the very same chariot of our own bodies here. The Mahabharata epic is nothing but an expos...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25/11/2019. (Spoken on July 15, 1979.) 8. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How is it possible for a person to neither like a thing nor not to like a thing? We have never heard of such a state of affairs. We always have some opinion of things which is either in favour of it or against it because we have personal requirements, we have needs and desires, and anything that is in conformity with the fulfilment of our own needs appears beautiful and valuable, and therefore, good, ethical. But that which is somehow or other tending towards an opposition towards the fulfilment of our own so-called needs and desires is ugly and undesirable. That is an object of vehemence from our own minds. Hence, an...

======================================================================== ======================================================================= 24/11/2019. Chapter-1: The Colophon of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita-4. ======================================================================= But, as I mentioned, theoretical physics has to lead to applied physics. What is the use of merely knowing things? This knowledge has to be applied in practical life. In a similar manner, this Brahma-vidya, which is the knowledge of the integrality of things, has to be put into daily implementation in our teacups, in our fountain pens, in our angry gestures, in our prejudices, in our desires, in our attractions, in our repulsions. In every situation, this Brahma-vidya has to be there. We have to be total and whole persons always. We cannot be whole only at some time, and a fraction at some other time. Will we be whole persons in our offices, and only a percentage in our houses? We are wh...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23/11/2019. 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The only incident which is associated with Sri Krishna’s invisible presence was the cry of Draupadi, as described to us in the Sabha Parva of the Mahabharata, during the unfortunate incident through which she had to pass in the midst of the Kurus after the Pandava brothers were defeated in the play of dice. Her condition was worse than wretched. There was no one to help her, not even her husbands or veterans such as Bhishma and Drona who were seated there. She had only one support. He krishna dvarka vasin: kauravaih paribhutam mam kim na janasi keshava : “Insulted and humiliated by the Kurus, I am standing here unbefriended. Are you awar...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22/11/2019. Srimad  Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) Slokam-5 : "Sattvam  rajastama  iti  gunah  prakrtisambhavah, nibadhnanti  mahabaho  dehe  dehinamavyayam." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sattvam rajas tama iti gunah prakriti-sambhavah, nibadhnanti maha-baho dehe dehinam avyayam." maha baho  =  O mighty-armed  Arjuna! [  maha-baho—mighty-armed one; ] sattvam  rajah  tamah  iti  =  Sattvam,  Rajas,  and  Tamas,  these  three; [ sattvam—mode of goodness; rajah—mode of passion; tamaḥ—mode of ignorance;  iti—thus; ] prakrti-sambhavah  gunah...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21/11/2019 (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) A Synthesis of Thought and Action-9. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “This is wonderful.” “This is very nice.” “This is no good.” We pass such remarks on persons and things on the basis of a sensory evaluation of them. But this is an incorrect attitude. The world is not made up of good things or bad things, pleasurable things or miserable things, our things or other things. It is made up of things in general. It is not our things. They are there even if we are not there. We too belong to it. It is very difficult to conceive what the world is. When the world starts thinking, it is not you or I who thinks. This is Sankhya – the nature of the world in i...

======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20/11/2019. (Spoken on June 26, 1983) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chpter-12. Slokam-s 8 to 11. ======================================================================= Mayya eva mana adhatsva mayi buddhim nivesaya, nivasshiayasi mayy eva ata urdhvahm na samsayah. - Slo-8. Aatha cittam samadhatum na saknoshi mayi sthiram, abhyasayogena tato mam ichaptum dhananjaya. - Slo-9. Abhyasepy asamarthosi matkarmaparamo bhava, madartham api karmani kurvan siddhim avapsyasi.-Slo-10. Athaitad apy asaktosi kartum madyogam asritah sarvakarmaphalatyagam tatah kuru yatatmavan. - Slo-11. ======================================================================== So the first ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19/11.2019 (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-18. Slokam-14. "Adhishtanam tatha kartha karanam cha prithag-vidham vividhash cha prithak cheshta daivam chaivatra panchamam." #Karanam ca prithag-vidham : The various instruments of action are also to be correct. Suppose a scientist in a laboratory is using a very powerful microscope in order to study atoms, electrons, and so on, and goes on peeping into the microscope very carefully throughout the day. But if the microscope is not properly made, and he himself has cataracts in his eyes, what will he see through the microscope? He will come to a very wrong scientific conc...

======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18/11/2019 (Spoken at a conference in Delhi on December 27, 1973.) Post - 6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Duryodhana chose the active fierce army rather than Krishna who would do nothing, who would only be a liability in the palace of Duryodhana. Why do you want a man who will do nothing? You have only to feed him for nothing. “Well,” said Krishna, “Duryodhana, you want the army? It is here. It is yours.” Jubilantly Duryodhana walked out with the pride of gaining victory then and there. “Arjuna is a fool,” thought Duryodhana. “I have got the butter, and he has only got the chaff out of it.” After Duryodhana left, Krishna turned to Arjuna. “What do you want now?” Arjuna replied, “I want not...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17/11/2019. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The context of the First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is the atmosphere of tense feelings in the field of a tremendous Armageddon, each one imagining that one would win victory over the other, each one intent upon overcoming the other, so that each one musters in all the powers of oneself available for unleashing the same in this battle that is to ensue. The individual faces this world before it as a confrontation, a field of action and opposition. The child, in its moods of unintelligent enthusiasm, imagines that it can do anything with this world—possess it, enjoy it, overcome it, utilise it, harness it for its...