Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================== ======================================================================= 13/01/2020. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -6. ======================================================================= 1. #The seeker on the spiritual path is described in the First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita, Arjuna being made the spokesman of this occasion. ##The field of battle is the field of life. The things that we want to do in this world are the confrontations before us, and our wisdom will be judged by the manner in which we deal with these situations. ### A situation means anything and everything with which we are connected, anything that we are supposed to do in the world. In this duty that we are called upon to perform, there is no such thing as a superior or inferior duty. #### There is no superior thing or inferior thing in this world, just as in a huge machine we cannot say that some part is supe...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 12/01/2020. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 9. Post-9. ======================================================================== 1. Many of us do not face the world properly because we are cosily placed, and are not being wrenched from all our pet relations. Some good karmas that we performed in the previous life seem to be keeping us satisfactorily happy. # But the earth can shake one day, even for the best of men.  ##Even a king can become a pauper tomorrow.  ###Nations can perish.  The Roman Empire can go to dust.  This is not unthinkable. King and beggar make no difference when they are on their deathbed. They want a little glass of water.  The king will say, “Give me a little sip of water. My throat is parched, and I am passing.” He will not think of his...