Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 30, 2021. 05:57. PM. Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-9. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So in this outlook of life you will find there is no such thing as secularity or spirituality isolated from one another. Nowadays people talk of secular existence, political existence, social existence, and spiritual existence. There is nothing of the kind. These are all unnecessary departments that we are creating psychologically in a single, seamless arrangement of life. That which is predominantly extrovert looks secular, but that which is predominantly extrovert is also not spiritual; nor is it an introverted action, or merely a political administration – all which, of course, are capable of being blended into a great Yoga of existence. A person can be a great statesman and politician, and also be a great Yogi. Lord Krishna ...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, April 29, 2021. 11:04. AM.  Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death -6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A very homely and easily intelligible analogy that I may place before you to understand this interconnectedness is the organism of our own personality, the sarira, which is the illustration given by such theologists and philosophers like Sri Ramanuja. God is sariri, and the whole creation is sarira. The relationship between the universe and God is sarira-sariri-sambandha. What is the relationship between the body and the soul?  There is some sort of a very clear, intelligible relationship between the body and the soul, though we may not identify one with the other. The body is not the soul, but we cannot keep the body here and the soul there; they are so much related that even the word 'relation' is a poor word to describ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, April 28, 2021. 07:31. PM.  Chapter - 10 : Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is also, then, a spontaneous harmony of the movement of the pranas. The whole attention should be on freedom of the self in the absorption of consciousness in God. The senses, the mind and the intellect should stand together as if there is a single flame of light emerging from the self within. Usually the senses work somewhere, the mind is thinking something, and the intellect is acquiescing in the activities of the mind and senses; they never work in harmony. We are agitated personalities on account of the lack of harmony among the senses, the mind and the intellect.  Like three flames of light joining into a single flame, the power of the senses and the power of the mind and the power of reason should stand toget...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday,  April   27, 2021. 06:23. PM. Chapter-8.The Fourth Chapter Begins: The Avataras of God Post-2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-7 : "yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srijamyaham." (BG- CH-4.SLO-7) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation by words : yadā yadā—whenever;  hi—certainly;  dharmasya—of righteousness;  glāniḥ—decline;  bhavati—is;  bhārata—Arjun,  descendant of Bharat;  abhyutthānam—increase;  adharmasya—of unrighteousness;  tadā—at that time;  ātmānam—self;  sṛijāmi—manifest;  aham—I --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tran...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, April  26, 2021. 07:37. PM. Chapter - 10 : The Need for Sankhya -7. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, the impulsions within a human being, mental as well as sensory, are also to be attributed to the activity of these gunas. It is not merely the physical body that is a product of these gunas. Gunas mean the properties of prakriti: sattva, rajas, tamas. They are called gunas in Sanskrit. It is not merely the physical body that is made up of the gunas, but even the inner constituents of the human personality, what is called the subtle body, are also products of the gunas. Now, our contact with things, our longing for things and our relationship with things, in any manner whatsoever, is a wondrous dramatic activity of these gunas among themselves. This is a very...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday,  April  25,  2021.  11:06.AM.  Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16. Daivasurasampadvibhagayogam ( Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam )  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-14 :   "asau  maya  hatah  satruh   hanishye  caparanapi, isvarohamaham  bhogi  siddhoham  balavan  sukhi." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation by words : asau  maya  hatah  satruh   =  I  killed  that  enemy; aparan  api  =  others  too; hanishye  ca  =  I  kill  them  also; aham  isvarah  =  I  am  the  SUPREME; aham  bhogi  =  I enjoy  all...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, April 24, 2021. 09:38.AM. Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-8. Post-21. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-2. ( Sankya-yogam ) Slokam-48. ( Krishna tells Arjuna that he should act in yoga  ) : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-48 : "Yogasthah      kuru     karmmaani     samgam     tyaktva     dhananjaya, siddhyasiddhyoh       samo     bhutva      samatvam       yoga     ucyate." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : dhananjaya!  =   hey     ...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 23, 2021. 11:04. AM.  Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death -5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These things raise doubts in our mind. Arjuna had difficulties; he was startled by these enunciations. (I mentioned to you, I'm passing through these chapters very very briefly, partly because we have very little time, partly because already I have gone through these chapters in greater detail, in a different session whose themes you can study in a printed form.) These mentions made in the seventh chapter raise questions of a cosmological nature: What is the universe? What is the world? What is the soul? What is God? What is creation? When we are told that we are there, the cosmos, the universe is there, we are related to it some way, organically, and the universe is created by God, many cosmological questions arise in the mind – ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, April 22, 2021. 11:09. AM.  Chapter - 10: Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here, in the verses referred to in the Fifth Chapter, we are told that the mind has to be concentrated on the point between the two eyebrows. The gaze has to be fixed on the ajna-chakra, as it is called, by which what is implied is that the mind has to concentrate itself on its own seat. Thereby, it becomes easier to control the mind than when it is moving away from its centre. Neither should we close the eyes completely nor should we open the eyes fully, which appears to be something like looking at the tip of the nose. The idea is not that we should actually concentrate on the tip of the nose, though that is one form of concentration people generally try sometimes. What is implied is that...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday,  April   21, 2021. 11:57. AM. Chapter-8.The Fourth Chapter Begins: The Avataras of God Post-1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have studied three chapters of the Bhagavadgita. If you have listened to me carefully, you would have noticed that the compressed matter that has gone into the first three chapters lays the very foundation, as it were, of the whole spiritual teaching for mankind. As difficult it is to remember all these things, so difficult it is to make out the various facets involved in the teaching; and more difficult it is to put them into daily practice. The poor human individual with a frail intellect, with an even more frail body, with tensions which are political, social and of many other types—how will this individual be able to grasp this teaching? Where is the brain for it? It is difficult to intellectually...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, April  20, 2021. 06:37. PM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10 : The Need for Sankhya -6. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You cannot have access to the field of right action unless you are equipped with right knowledge first. All right action is based on right knowledge. Understanding always comes first, and behaviour comes afterwards. You cannot move a finger unless you know how to move it, so it is theory first and practice afterwards, as it is in the case of our secular sciences also. The methodology is to be clear first. The technology has to be appreciated in the beginning. We have to be trained well in the theoretical side, the logical side, the scientific side; then we will come to the pract...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday. April 19, 2021. 10 : 29.AM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16.  Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam. Slokam-13. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Chapter-16. Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam.  -------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-13 :  "Idamadya  maya  labdham  imam  prapsye  manoratham, idamastidamapi  me  bhavishyati  punardhanam." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Adya  maya  idam   labdham  =  today  I  have  achieved  this; imam  manoratham  prapsye  =  I  will  fulfil  this  ( my )  desire; me  idam  asti  =  I  got  ( have )  t...

 . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, April 18, 2021. 12:17.PM. Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-7. Post-20. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The philosophy of the Bhagavadgita is not merely work, but participation in the production of a value that is transcendent to the action itself. When a large machine is working, every little part works and contributes to the machine’s output, the output being transcendent to the machine itself. The machine is an instrument, and the parts are also participants. Something is automatically produced as a transcendent result by the participation of the parts in the work of this large machinery of the world. What follows from all this? You cannot sit quiet, nor can you motivate action by your own self independently. You are wound up inextricably, warp and woof, as in the fabric of a cloth, in the arrangement of things i...