Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, June 30, 2021. 7 : 47. PM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16.  Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-23 : "yah  sastra-vidhim-utsrjya   vartate  kamakaratah. na  sah  siddhimavapnoti   na  sukham  na  param  gatim." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation -1. yaḥ—who;  śhāstra-vidhim—scriptural injunctions;  utsṛijya—discarding;  vartate—act;  kāma-kārataḥ—under the impulse of desire;  na—neither;  saḥ—they;  siddhim—perfection;  avāpnoti—attain;  n...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 29, 2021. 6:31.PM. Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence - 8. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. So whoever consumes things for himself, without being grateful to the gods who are responsible for his very existence, is a thief. The benefits that accrue to you in this world are the gifts of the gods. It will be so if you appreciate that the adhidaiva is controlling you, even when you breathe. The connection between you and the world, which is what you call life in this world, is actually caused by the action of something which is neither you nor the world outside. Should you not be grateful for that? Gratitude is the greatest virtue. If you are not even conscious of the gifts that you receive from the higher sources and imagine that you are the doer and the enjoyer, while you are neither the doer nor the enjoyer because...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 28, 2021. 8:28. PM.  Chapter 9 : The Majesty of God-Consciousness - 6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There is some sort of message that we seem to receive from the meaning that we can read between the lines in the ninth and the tenth chapters – everywhere He is present, sometimes more pronounced in His manifestations, sometimes not so manifest.  "yad yad vibhutimat sattvam shrimad urjitam eva va tat tad evavagachchha tvam mama tejo ’nsha-sambhavam." (Gita 10.41):  Wherever there is exaltation of any kind, power, knowledge, capacity, whatever it is, a super-normal manifestation of anything in this world, it may be artistic capacity, literature, music, administration, whatever it can be – where there is a super-normal expression of this characteristic or endowment, know thou, I am present there." Not that He is not pr...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, June 27, 2021.5:52. PM.  Chapter 11: The Yoga of Meditation - 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The Ishta, or the object of meditation, is God-incarnate in that particular form, and if one has no trust in God Himself, what else can one be expected to believe in? There is a basic error in the very choice of the object, on account of which the mind distracts itself from the point chosen and flits from that thing to another thing, searching for that which it needs or requires. Really, it does not know what it wants. The psychology of meditation is to be mastered before one actually sits for Meditation. The Supreme Being is present in every object. God is everywhere. And it will be quite in the fitness of things for a person to choose any particular form, or concept, for the purpose of meditation, because God is present even there. But what ...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday,  June 17, 2021.8:04. AM. Chapter - 9. The Fourth Chapter Continues: The Performance of Action as a Sacrifice - 5. Post-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. An individual must have performed great punya, great merit in the previous birth or in several births, to be able to appreciate this great truth of the identity of ourselves with the atmosphere in which we are stationed. Therefore, unselfish action is itself a fruit thereof. If we become healthy, do we ask what we get if we become healthy? Health itself is the fruit thereof. Similarly, unselfishness is nothing but a healthy relationship that we maintain with the world, and perhaps with God. And what we call selfish action is an unhealthy relationship that we maintain with the world and with God—an alien relationship, as it were. We treat the world and God as foreigners, as if we...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June 25, 2021. 11:00.AM. Chapter-12. Control of the Senses :1. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) Post-1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A wonderful message the blessed Arjuna receives from Bhagavan Sri Krishna in a brief encounter, as it were, as a response to quandaries that beset the mind of Arjuna as we have them portrayed in the First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. Arjuna listens to all this with rapt attention and then says, “It is enrapturing indeed to hear your cosmic message, but how is it that no one seems to be in a position to make it a part of one’s practical day-to-day existence? It is the same old humdrum life of toil, upset, suffering and anxiety, in spite of it being possible for any sensible person to understand and appreciate this wondrous message of cosmic solidarity that you ha...

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, June 24, 2021. 9 : 44. AM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16.  Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam - 22 : "etairvimuktah  kaunteya  tamodvaraistribhirnarah, acaratyatmanah  sreyah  tato  yati  param  gatim.". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : kaunteya  etaih  tribhih  =  Arjuna  these  three  ( by these three kinds of ); tamah  dvarah  vimuktah  =  being liberated  from  the gates of ignorance  ( by  giving  up   gates  of  hell  i.e, lust, anger, and greed ); narah  =...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 22, 2021. 5:02.AM. Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence - 7. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. This intricate process of a yajna is not merely offering something mechanically for no purpose, but is an inwardly oriented vital action of the inward relationship between the adhyatma, the adhibuta and adhidaiva. So even in an external ritualistic homa or yajna, a universal setup is produced by the contemplation of the yajnamana, or the performer. In a passage of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the question is raised by a member of the audience in the court of Janaka who addresses Yajnavalkya: "Any offering that is made is perishable. All actions lead to results which will cease one day or the other. So all sacrifice ends in a perishable result. How would the performer of sacrifice attain immortality through sacrifice? Answer...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, June 20, 2021. 8:12. AM.  Chapter 9 : The Majesty of God-Consciousness - 5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There was a Brahmin who was a great devotee of the Bhagavadgita – this is a story which touched me deeply, and perhaps it has a great meaning. He was a great devotee of this slokam :  Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-9, Slokam-22. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ananya's chintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate tesham nityabhiyuktanam yoga-kshemam vahamyaham." ------------------------------------------------------- Translation of the Slokam : (Tatvam - Essence) BG 9.22: There are those who always think of Me and engage in exclusive devotion to Me. To them, whose minds are always absorbed in Me, I provide what they lack and preserve what they already possess. -------------------...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, June 19, 2021.9:47. AM.  Chapter 11: The Yoga of Meditation - 3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The great Masters of Yoga are most normal persons. They are not queer individuals looking like otherworldly ascetics, making themselves conspicuous. There is no conspicuity about Yoga practice. It is not an unnatural way of living, making oneself an exhibit in the social atmosphere. When we are a real Yogi, we will not appear as a Yogi at all. The moment we start appearing as a Yogi, there is to be sensed some unnaturalness in the practice. Why should we ‘appear’? There is no need to put on countenances. Normalcy of behaviour is a spontaneous consequence that follows from an understanding of the wholeness of life, which is, basically, Yoga. With this preparedness of the mind in a healthy manner towards all things, one has to sit for medi...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday,  June 17, 2021.8:04. AM. Chapter - 9. The Fourth Chapter Continues: The Performance of Action as a Sacrifice - 4. Post-4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The thickest part of our karma is in the anandamaya kosha. This is what psychologists called the unconscious level. The slightly thinner part is in the subconscious, which we experience in dream many a time, and the thinnest part is in the waking condition. Because of its transparency, consciousness is reflected so clearly that even through that karmic residuum we begin to perceive things in the world as clearly as if it were in the waking state. But we perceive things dimly in the dreaming condition because it is subconscious and not as clear as the waking condition. And we know nothing in the sleeping condition because the cloud is very thick and consciousness does not penetrate through ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, June 17, 2021. 7:58.AM. Chapter-11. Participating with the Intention of the Universe -6. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) Post-6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So whenever we do any little work, we are doing a cosmical work, we are doing a universal work, we are participating in the creative activity of the cosmos. It is not my work; it is not your work. Such a thing cannot be. Even in the imagination, that kind of independence of our work cannot be permitted. Even in imagination, that is not possible. Not only is it not possible for us to work independently for our own purpose, it is not possible for us even to exist as an independent person because we are a little thread in this large fabric of the spread-out three gunas which are this world. So prakriti determines every character, and each one of ...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 15, 2021. 9 : 44. AM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16.  Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-21 : "Tri-vidham narakasyedam dvaram nashanam atmanah kamah krodhas tatha lobhas tasmad etat trayam tyajet." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : tri-vidham—three types of;  narakasya—to the hell;  idam—this; dvāram—gates;  nāśhanam— ātmanaḥ—self;  kāmaḥ—lust;  krodhaḥ—anger;  tathā—and;  lobhaḥ—greed;  tasmāt—therefore;  etat—these;  trayam—three;  tyajet—should abandon. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kamah  krodhah  tatha  lobhah  idam...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 14, 2021. 8:05.AM. Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence - 6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. So there is a danger, especially in the case of a spiritual seeker, when one is prone to imagine that sitting quiet is a state of inaction, and freedom from the bondage of action. Action binds because of the thought involved in it. Action by itself does not bind, because consciousness is not connected with it. The binding factor is the charging of consciousness. When consciousness vitalises action, it becomes a specific action. When there is a devitalisation of the action process by the withdrawal of consciousness or mentality in it, it ceases to be meaningful action. Knowing this, one has to try to reconcile in one's finite existence here the two aspects of one's nature, the phenomenal and the noumenal. 2. The verse of t...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, June 13, 2021. 7:25. AM.  Chapter 9 : The Majesty of God-Consciousness - 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-9, Slokam-22. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ananya's chintayanto mam ye janah paryupasate tesham nityabhiyuktanam yoga-kshemam vahamyaham." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation of the Slokam : (Tatvam - Essence) BG 9.22: There are those who always think of Me and engage in exclusive devotion to Me. To them, whose minds are always absorbed in Me, I provide what they lack and preserve what they already possess. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commentary : 1. A mother never thinks of desertin...