Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ------------------------------------------- Sunday, November 22, 2020. 11:37. AM. Discourse 6: The Third Chapter Begins – The Relation Between Sankhya and Yoga -2. Post-1. -------------------------------- Now Sri Krishna takes up the question of the relation between Sankhya and yoga, about which enough has been said in the Second Chapter. It has been mentioned again and again that all our activities have to be based on the knowledge of the Sankhya. But are they two different paths, or are they internally related to each other? ----------------------------- Sri bhagavan uvacha "Loke ’smmn dvi-vidha nishtha pura prokta mayanagha jnana-yogena sankhyanam karma-yogena yoginam." (BG -  CH-3, SLO-3.)) "Na karmanam anarambhan naishkarmyam purusho ’shnute na cha sannyasanad eva siddhim samadhigachchhati." (BG- CH-3, SLO-4.) Sankhya and yoga, or knowledge and action, are mutually related in an organic fashion. When it was said that action has to be rooted in the knowledge o...

---------------------------------------------------- Saturday, November 21, 2020. 12:45. PM. Chapter 8: The Realism and Idealism of the Bhagavadgita-2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ------------------------------------ Some of the extra-cosmic enthusiasms of religious phases today become a kind of anathema to realistically-minded, socially-minded, politically-minded outlooks in life, not because religion is bad, but a religion that is unrelated to facts of life loses its meaning. And if there is any outlook of the religious ideal which plants itself firmly on even the lowest values of reality, we have here in the Bhagavadgita a grand consummation of that integrated outlook. It is a friend of the poor, and it is also a friend of the Supreme Creator of the universe. From the uttermost poverty of human thought it rises to the pinnacle of divine perfection. Such is the gamut it covers from the lowest to the highest of levels. ------------------...