Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday,March  25, 2021. 11:07. AM. Chapter-7. The Third Chapter Concludes: The Knower of Reality.-6. Post-17. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The other method is, as far as possible, to try to avoid the company of people who are not in any way going to be of help to you or are going to be a disturbance to you. Atheists and materialists or opponents of any kind may not be good company for you. Be alone to yourself. Try to be alone to yourself as much as possible, and be in the midst of people only to that extent as would be necessitated by the work that you perform. You may be a teacher, you may be a factory manager, you may be a medical person, or you may be professor, etc. You may be in the midst of society only to the extent to which you have to fulfil your obligations—not more, not less. When that performance is over, you may withdraw yourself. ...

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, March 31, 2021. 10:13. AM. ------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10 : The Need for Sankhya -4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ------------------------------------------------------- We have a very beautiful analysis of the psychic pattern of desires in our ancient scriptures, namely, the potentialities, the storehouses of desires in the deepest recesses of our being. For our convenience we may call them the unconscious level of our being – karmas which are like a large heap in a godown of a grocery shop. A lot of things are kept there, out of which something is brought out for retail sale by the shopkeeper. He does not bring everything outside; he brings out as much as is necessary, as is required for the day. There is a storage of commodities inside in the main godown, and when he brings things outside for retail sa...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, March 30, 2021.09:27. AM. Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-16. Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam,  Slokam-10. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-10 : "kamam ashritya dushpuram dambha-mana-madanvitah mohad grihitvasad-grahan pravartante ’shuchi-vratah" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tatvam (Essence) of the slokam : The demoniac, taking shelter of insatiable lust, pride and false prestige, and being thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent. Harboring insatiable lust, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, the demoniac cling to their false tenets. Thus illusioned, they are attracted to the impermanent and work with impure resolve. -------------------------------------------------------------------------...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 29, 2021. 10:43.AM. Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-5. Post-18. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .In this call of duty, which is your participation, you should not connect your performance with any fruit or result that may follow from it. Here is a difficulty in understanding the gospel of the Bhagavadgita. We are always prone to think that everything we do should yield some result: “What shall I get if I do this?” The Bhagavadgita will not permit you to raise such a question. Can the legs ask what they will get by walking? If the hands raise a morsel of food and put it in the mouth, do they ask what they get by doing that? “Somebody is eating, and I lift the food.” Would you like to carry somebody’s luggage for nothing? And why should the hand lift the food for somebody else’s satisfaction? But does the hand p...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, March 27, 2021. 10:16. AM. Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death -2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the Vedanta epistemology, especially, goes deeper into the implications of the very process of perception. The knowledge of the world is not such a simple process – it is not so innocent as it appears on the surface. We do not just jump into the world and see that it is there; there is some complicated implication behind and underneath this outer association of our personality through the senses with the objects of the world, the world as a whole. It is not true that the world is really outside us. The five elements are not objects in such a way as to be totally disassociated from even our sense organs. A little inkling of this suggestion was given to us in the third chapter of the Gita when we were told: Gunah guneshu vartante. The ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday,March 26,  2021. 10 : 53. AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10: Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-1. -------------------------------------------------------------- There is another important theme expounded in the Fourth Chapter, viz., sacrifice as a practice of Yoga, in which context certain details of the variegated methods of the performance of this sacrifice as Yoga are delineated. The adoration of the gods, the celestials, or the deities of religion is a sacrifice. And any sacrifice is also a Yoga, because sacrifice means a parting of one’s own self in some measure in the direction of the achievement of a larger Self, so that in every form of sacrifice a lower form of self is surrendered or sacrificed to a higher form of Se...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday,March  25, 2021. 11:07. AM. Chapter-7. The Third Chapter Concludes: The Knower of Reality.-5. Post-16. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hanuman got very angry in Lanka. Sita’s predicament roused his anger to such an extent that he thought, “I should go from here only after teaching a lesson to Ravana.” His mission was only to find Sita and tell Rama where she was; he was not entrusted with any other work. But this ambassador went beyond his empowered authority as an ambassador. He said, “It is best for an ambassador to do something more than what he is instructed, in the interest of the government. They have not told me to do that, but in their interest I will do it.” So he rose up into a mountainous shape, and we know what he did. He destroyed the whole of Lanka by setting fire to it. Afterwards he cooled down a bit. He began to feel...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednsday, March 24, 2021. 08:58. AM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10 : The Need for Sankhya -3. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The physical body is said to be an embodiment of the forces of karmas, or the effects produced by one’s desires and actions. Now, they condition the body in a very important manner. The body does not exist unnecessarily. We do not live here in this body for nothing; there is a purpose in it, and it will be in this world as long as the purpose for which it has been manufactured has not been fulfilled. As a silkworm manufactures a cocoon, as a spider spins a web from its mouth, as the subtle can concentrate itself into a gross object, as gas can become liquid and liquid can become solid, simil...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, March 23, 2021.11:39. AM. Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-16. Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam,  Slokam-9. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-9.   "etam  drshtimavashtabhya  nashtatmanolpabuddhayah, prabhavantyugrakarmanah   kshayaya  jagatohitah." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : etam  drshtim  =  this  one  view / vision; avashtabhya  =  accepting  firmly; nashta  atmanah  =  one  who  lost  his / her  balance  of  mind; alpa-buddhayah  =  and  less  intelligent; ugra-karmanah  =   and  in painful activities  ( in  violant  destructive  activities...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 22, 2021. 11:09.AM. Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-4. Post-17. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your duty in this world is dependent on what kind of person you are, and how you are fitted to your own self as well as to society outside. Therefore, the duties that are required on the part of any individual cannot be uniform. It is not that everybody should be a businessman, everybody a driver, everybody a professor, everybody a yogi – nothing of the kind. That is not possible because whatever you are expected to be in this world and in what manner you are expected to participate in the scheme of things will depend upon your constitution. This svadharma, this duty on your part, which is based on your own nature, actually means the dependence of your call of duty on the structure of your own individuality, which is mad...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, March 21, 2021. 07:57. AM. Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death -1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bhagavadgita is a moksha-shastra, a scripture on the science of the liberation of the spirit. Thus it follows the course of the return process along the same lines as the evolutionary process of the descent of the soul from the Supreme Being. The first six chapters may be said to be engaged in an exposition of self-discipline from the individual point of view, the integration of the human personality and the preparation of the whole man for the greater task which is yet to come – namely, the at-one-ment of the individual with the set-up of the universe. Some of the interpreters and commentators on the Bhagavadgita hold that the first six chapters have a relevance to the significance of the term 'twam' in the famous Upanishadic p...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,March 20,  2021. 08:02. PM. Chapter 9: The Divine Incarnation and God-oriented Activity -6. Last post ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thus, the Fourth Chapter gives us two important aspects of the message of Yoga. Firstly, God’s Hands move in this world as Incarnations which cannot be counted in number. It is not that there is only Incarnation historically. Every event in the world is a divine miracle beyond the understanding of the human individual, and this divine miracle is the working of the Incarnations. The Incarnations have various degrees of intensity in their workings, and are in that particular shape or form which would be required under the circumstances of the case. Hence it is that we see a diversity among the messages of the prophets and the Incarnations accepted by the various religions of the world. They are not divers...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,March  19, 2021. 11:01. AM. Chapter-7. The Third Chapter Concludes: The Knower of Reality.-4. Post-15. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-3. ( Karma-yogam ) Slokam-36&37. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gita- ch-3, slokam-36. Arjuna puts a question.  Arjuna uvācha, "Atha kena prayukto ’yaṁ pāpaṁ charati pūruṣhaḥ anichchhann api vārṣhṇeya balād iva niyojitaḥ."  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : arjunaḥ uvācha—Arjun said;  atha—then;  kena—by what;  prayuktaḥ—impelled;  ayam—one;  pāpam—sins;  charati—commit;  pūruṣhaḥ—a person;  anichchhan—unwillingly;  api—even;  vārṣhṇeya—he who belongs to the Vri...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, March 18, 2021. 06:25. PM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10 : The Need for Sankhya -2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honest, dispassionate thinking is necessary here, and everyone has to be humble enough to realise the extent of one’s dependence on external factors. No one is the creator of the universe, and no one is so vastly occupied with power that one can be totally independent. Nothing can be independent in this world of interconnections, interrelations.  Therefore, we have a duty, and what our duty is, is to be decided by the position we are occupying in the structure of the human society, our knowledge, and our capacity: guna karma vibhagasah (BG 4.13).  Details of this guna karma ...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, March 17, 2021. 05:53. PM. ----------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16. ( Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam ) -------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-8.  : "Asatyamapratishtthah  te  jagadahuranisvaram, aparasparasambhutam  kimanyat  kamahaitukam." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : asatyamapratishtthah  te  jagadahuranisvaram, aparasparasambhutam  kimanyat  kamahaitukam. jagat  asatyam  =  the  cosmic  manifestation  is  unreal,  and  untrue; apratishttham  anisvaram  =  and  without foundation,  and  is  not  correct; kamahaitukam  =  it  is  due  to  lust between...