Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday,March 01,  2021. 10:10. AM. Chapter 9: The Divine Incarnation and God-oriented Activity -3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We need not be disappointed that we are weaklings and that we cannot understand. More than understanding is an acceptance of this feeling for God, the Presence of God. Faith transcends reason in a way, and religion is finally a faith of the soul, a spirit, a surrender of one’s self, which shall be the final message of the Gita when it concludes in the Eighteenth Chapter—a total submission of ourselves to the Presence of God by a wholehearted acceptance of His being, from our soul. This is the highest religion, and God’s Grace shall be bestowed upon us as a matter of right, and we need not be in a mood of melancholy or dejection of spirit. Now, with this solacing religious message which is offered us in the beginni...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,February  27, 2021. 08:30. PM.  Chapter-7. The Third Chapter Concludes: The Knower of Reality.-1. Post-12. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tattvavit tu mahābāho guṇakarmavibhāgayoḥ, guṇā guṇeṣu vartanta iti matvā na sajjate (3.28). Tattvavit means the knower of Reality. Here ‘knower’ means the knower of the processes of the gunas of prakriti and their relation to actions performed by individuals. Guṇakarmavibhāgayoḥ tattvavit: One who knows the reality of the manner of the working of the gunas of prakriti in their relation to the actions of people is a tattvavit. What does a tattvavit know? One with this insight recognises that all movements in the form of activities of any kind are only movements of the gunas of prakriti, whether they operate in heaven, on this earth, in the nether regions, or in he...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, February 26, 2021. 01:22. PM. ---------------------------------------- Chapter 9: The Classification of Society- 6. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The duty you are expected to perform is whatever you are capable of contributing to the welfare of the whole. Here again, a little analogy of the human body will be good. You do not expect the leg to think as the brain thinks. You do not expect the head to walk. You do not expect the nose to see, or the ear to smell. It is expected of each organ to perform a particular function. Now, the difference in the performance of these functions does not imply any kind of ethical or moral superiority, or even a social difference. Which part of your body is inferior, and which part is superior? Even a little hair of mine is dear to me....

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, February 25, 2021. 09:36. AM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-16. ( Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam ) / ( Daivasurasampadvibhagayogam ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-5 :  "daivisampad vimokshaya  nibandhayasuri  mata, ma  sucah  sampadam  daivim   abhijatosi  pandava." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : daivi  sampad  vimokshaya  =  daivi  ( divine / transcendental )  quality / nature,  is  for  moksham  ( meant  for  liberati...

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, February 24, 2021. 07:18. AM. Chapter 4: The Total Picture of Creation -4. Post-13. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a great history behind this question of whether there is a substance behind sensations or whether the world is made up of sensations only. Subjective philosophers in the West, such as Berkeley, concluded that the whole world is nothing but sensations only. If these five sensations are removed from you, there will be no world, and your body will also not be there. But a difficulty arises in the mind due to its very structure because it believes the sensations are sensing something, and if something is not there to be sensed, what are the senses going to sense? A question was put to Berkeley. “My dear Father,” (he was a clergyman) “what ...

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, February 23, 2021. 10:14. AM. Chapter 7: Meditation – A Discipline of Self-Integration-3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But these are minor things compared to the more powerful ones – namely, the elemental forces, which cannot easily be roused by a little of meditation. A huge lion, very strong and confident of his strength, will not wake up even if we pelt a stone at it. Only a little puppy will wake up; it will bark at us even if we look at it. But a mighty lion or even an elephant, which knows its own strength, will not in any way be affected by our gazing at it or even with our interfering with it in a mild manner. So our little meditations may not even be felt by this mighty lion of the physical universe. It may be like scratching a rock with a little ne...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, February 22, 2021.09:19. AM. Chapter 9: The Divine Incarnation and God-oriented Activity -2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thus, it is difficult to fully understand the meaning of an Incarnation. We do not know how it happens. Even today we cannot easily say what it actually is. It is a miracle. Finally, one would realise that the whole thing is a marvel. Our logic has to fail in the end because it is a very feeble prop which appears to be guiding us to a certain extent, but in the end it leaves us as an unreliable support. And our search for God has to be a function of our soul within, rather than an activity of the intellect or the empirical understanding. Religion is an operation of the soul; it is not philosophical or academic intellection. When we come in touch w...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday,February  21, 2021. 11:41. AM. Discourse 6: The Third Chapter Begins – The Relation Between Sankhya and Yoga -10. Post-11. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah,  ahaṅkaravimudhatma kartaham iti manyate (3.27).  We again come back to the main subject. As prakriti is doing all things—the gunas of prakriti are mutating in a cyclic fashion—therefore, it becomes obligatory on our part to act. He who imagines that he is doing the action is really in the state of highest unwisdom. From where then comes the question of our individually participating in a work? We are actually participating cosmically, as an agent of the cosmos, as it were—like an ambassador of a government does not act independently, and only represents the gove...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, February 19, 2021. 10:35. AM. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society- 5. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your relationship to things in the world, and your obligation to the world in terms of these relationships, will be dependent upon the extent of the manifestation of these gunas which constitute you, and you will be fit to act only in that manner, to that extent, as would be permitted by the preponderance of any one of these gunas or any two of the gunas, etc., because you cannot be other than what you are. You cannot try to do something differently than what is permitted by your nature. The word ‘nature’, prakriti, is sometimes used in the Bhagavadgita. Prakriti in a cosmical sense is ‘something...

. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, February  18, 2021. 07:16. AM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16. ( Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam ) / ( Daivasurasampadvibhagayogam ) Slokam-4. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slokam : 4. dambho  darpobhimanasca  krodhah  parushyameva  ca, ajnanam  cabhijatasya  partha  sampadamasurim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation : dambhah  =  pretending  having  such  good  guna-s  which are absent  in  him  ( false pride ); darpah  =  arrogantly  behave  because of his  wealth; abhimanah  krodhah  =  conceit  and  anger; parushyam  ajna...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, February 09, 2021. 08:43. AM. Chapter 4: The Total Picture of Creation -3. Post-12. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, I mentioned that there is a threefold division of this universal omnipresence – adhyatma, adhibhuta and adhidaiva. The adhibhuta prapancha, or the universe of material existence, we may say, is originally a space-time vibration complex. Even today, physical scientists and philosophers of physical science say that the whole universe is basically space-time. Space, time and motion – this is the beginning of creation. Space means a sudden vacuum, as it were, created before the omnipresence. In order that you may become something other than what you are, you have to cease to be what you are at present. If God has to become the object, He has to cease...

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, February 15, 2021. 08:25. AM. Chapter 7: Meditation – A Discipline of Self-Integration-2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The process of meditation is not a struggle in the sense of a fighting with nature, or with what we call the odds of life; it is an establishment of a harmony, rather than a conflict with the powers that be, in which we are engaging ourselves. It is more an attitude of friendship by way of communion of feeling that meditation is, than an encounter with an enemy; though in the earlier stages all the opposing forces appear to be our opponents, enemies, and intruding factors. There are stages by which the senses and the mind have to be weaned from the points of distraction, and the highest method should not be applied when one is in the lower s...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, February 14, 2021.09:21. AM. Chapter 9: The Divine Incarnation and God-oriented Activity -1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was told to us that desire is the obstacle, and it is again told that desires are so powerful that they cannot be easily subdued unless we resort to the Atman, the great Reality. Is this an easy method? Is anyone going to succeed in this practice? We are weak in our understanding, no doubt, feeble in our will, and forceful in our desires. Under these circumstances, which are obvious to everyone, is there a hope at all of any substantial achievement, spiritually? Or, are we merely groping in darkness? Is it a hopeless case ultimately, if we are so fragile in our understanding and the powers of the world are so far above our head and shoulders?...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,February  06, 2021. 09:40. AM. Discourse 6: The Third Chapter Begins – The Relation Between Sankhya and Yoga -9. Post-10. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let your knowledge be inside you, as a guide, as a lamp for others, but never use it to prop up your ego and then project your individuality through that knowledge. Let not your knowledge be broadcast. The light will shine by itself even if it is covered with bushes and, therefore, your existence itself will speak in a louder voice than the words that you speak. Your way of living, your thinking and feeling, your mode of behaviour is your teaching, so let not there be any parading of knowledge. Knowledge makes a person humble; and when you reach the highest knowledge, you become so humble you do not seem to be existing at ...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, February 12, 2021. 11:09. AM. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, these tendencies are sattva, rajas and tamas. Rajas is a term implying a tendency to extrovert direction, action in an outward sense, the urge of the inner constituents of the personality to move outward in the direction of space, time and objects. The tendency of these three gunas decides, marks, indicates the nature of your subtle body. The subtle body is called the linga sharira in Sanskrit. Linga is a mark or an indication, an insignia which indicates what kind of person you are. It is the force behind your physical body. It is mould into which the physical body is cast. In a way, w...

------------------------------------------------------------ Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Slokam-1. sri-bhagavan uvaca abhayam  sattvasamśuddhih  jnanayogavyavasthitih, danam  damas  ca  yajnasca  svadhyayastapa  arjavam. --------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : sri  bhagavan  uvaca  =  Sri Krishna said; abhayam  =  fearlessness; sattva-samsuddhih  =  purification of one's existence  (  inner  purification ); jnana-yoga-vyavasthitih  =  preparation  to  jnana-yogam  ( linking  up  to  the  situation  of  knowledge ); danam  damah  yajnah  ca  =  charity,  self-control,  and  sacrifice; svadhyayah  tapah  arjavam  =  study of Vedic literature,  austerity,  and simplicity; ----------------------------------------------------------- Slokam - 2....