Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 31, 2021.7:48. PM.  Chapter -12. God and the Universe - 1. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By the time we reach the Seventh Chapter of the Bhagavadgita we are touching a new realm of being, and the whole perspective that was presented before us in the course of the earlier six chapters suddenly changes, as if a curtain has been lifted in the dramatic portrayal of the Gospel. There is an introduction of the soul of the seeker to the empyrean of the Creator, a subject which has not been adequately touched upon during the earlier course of the studies. There has been a particular emphasis laid in the first six chapters upon the individual, the duty of the person, the integration of the psychophysical complex. There has been an admonition in the earlier chapters...

========================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,  July 30, 2021. 7:32. PM. Discourse 11: The Fifth Chapter Begins – Knowledge and Action are One -1. ------------------------------------------------------------------ “My Lord, what are You telling me? You say that jnana is the highest. I understand what You say. But sometimes You say, ‘You must act. All actions melt in knowledge.’ If that is the case, where comes the necessity for me to hear from You the instruction that I must act?” Sannyāsaṁ karmaṇāṁ kṛṣṇa punar yogaṁ ca śaṁsasi, yac chreya etayor ekaṁ tan me brūhi suniścitam (5.1). “Sometimes You say jnana, sometimes You say karma. Between these two, which is better for me?” This is Arjuna’s question. Jyāyasī cet karmaṇas te matā buddhir janārdana, tat kiṁ karmaṇi ghore māṁ niyojayasi keśava (3.1). This question is raised in the beginning of the Third Chapter. If buddhi,...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, July 29, 2021. 10:28. AM. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter-12. Control of the Senses : 6. (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So our instincts need not necessarily be visible to us. In our conscious life we may not know that they exist at all. I am very fine. What is wrong with me? But the disturbances in the mind, that which we call the tossing of the mind, the inability to concentrate, a feeling of fatigue even in sitting for a while calmly in meditation and an inward restlessness that one feels are outer indications of an inward presence of these potential instincts which are irrational. These prevent us from putting this knowledge into practice. But there is a way out. All problems are meant to be solved. Every difficulty has to be overcome. This is the picture I have presented before you of thi...

======================================================== Swami Chinmayananda ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, July 27, 2021. 6:34. PM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-17. Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam :1.3. 1. Introduction-3. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction-3. In the preceding chapter the Supreme Lord Krishna spoke of the difference between those endowed with the divine nature and those possessing the demoniac nature.  He described the qualities of each and emphasised that the divine endowments should be cultivated and embellished while the demoniac nature should be rejected and avoided by all means. This confirms the reality that to become qualified for spiritual knowledge an aspirant must be exclusively situated in sattva guna or the mode of goodness which empowers one to perform only actions that are in harmony with the Vedic scriptures.  urthermore Lord Krishn...

 ========================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, July 26, 2021. 10:53.AM. Chapter 7:The Entry of the Absolute into the Relative - 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The existence that you enjoy in this world is not conditioned by external factors, as you imagine that the service that you do to people is a service that you do to somebody other than you. It is not so. The service that you render to people, to humanity, is not something that you do for the good of that which is outside you, but that which is above you. You have to make a distinction between that which is above you and that which is outside you. The social context it is that is compelling you to do service in this world. Society, which is a big subject of sociological science, is not merely a group of peop...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, July 25, 2021. 11:48. AM. Chapter 10: The One Supreme Absolute Alone Is -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These faculties in the human being are the instruments of the practice of yoga, so that we cannot contact reality except through the apparatus with which we are endowed. These four features mentioned determine and decide our encounter with God, the Supreme Being; and the way in which we visualise the Supreme Being through these faculties goes by the names of the various yogas: jnana, yoga, bhakti, karma and the like. In the Bhagavadgita we have a large detail opened up before us of all these methods of spiritual practice, though we cannot say that anywhere does the Bhagavadgita create a watertight compartment ...

==========================================================   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 24, 2021.10:49. AM.  Chapter 11: The Yoga of Meditation -8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, these problems and difficulties, pains and sorrows and doubts, the agonies that appear in the course of the practice of Yoga are the inevitable consequences of our effort in cleansing the mind of all the dirt that is deposited there since aeons and incarnations. But a glorious day is to come and that should keep us happy, expecting a blessedness that is supremely divine. One who believes in God and trusts in God wholly, taking refuge in God, shall be taken care of by God. “He shall not lose Me, and I shall not lose him,” says the great Master. One who has t...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,  July 23, 2021. 10:26. AM. Discourse-10. The Fifth Chapter Begins: Knowledge and Action are One -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. "Srotradinindriyaṇyanye samyamagnisu juvhati sabdadin visayan anya indriyagniṣu juvhati."( BG-4-26.) God comes to us as an emperor, and He comes every day by way of invocation. After some time, we bid Him farewell; and so the next day, we have to invite him again. After bidding a guest farewell, the person leaves. Every day this gorgeous reception is given to the honoured guest who is God; and finally, we offer ourselves: I am Thine. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. "Daivam evapare yajnam yoginah paryupasate brahmagnavapare yajnam yajnenaivopajuhvati." (BG-4.25.) -----------------------------------...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, July 22, 2021. 10:34. AM. Chapter-12. Control of the Senses : 5. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having desire, anger and greed need not necessarily mean that these forces are operating in us perpetually, day in and day out. To be desireful, a person need not go on shouting, “I want, I want, I want!” And we need not go on attacking somebody in order to be angry. It is not necessary to go on shouting, “I have this desire! I have this desire!” There is no need to say all these things. But without announcing our propensities, even without knowing sometimes that these are present at all in us, they shall be present. Our propensities, traits of this character, sometimes lie hidden and latent within us, wit...

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, July 21, 2021. 10:14. AM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-17. Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam : 1.2. 1.Introduction-2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Introduction.2  Among all the causes previously explained as initiating qualification for spiritual consciousness by the Supreme Lord Krishna, sraddha or faith is pre-eminent and the foremost among them. Therefore this chapter examines the threefold differentiations of faith of the three gunas or modes of material nature: sattva guna or mode of goodness, raja guna or mode of passion and tama guna or mode of ignorance. At the end of chapter 16 Lord Krishna revealed that anyone who fails to follow the ordinances and injunctions of the Vedic scriptures and instead foolishly follows the impulses of the physical body, the whims of the mind and the dictates of their desires; will never achieve ...

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 20, 2021. 8:00.AM. Chapter 7:The Entry of the Absolute into the Relative -1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.  The involvement of everyone in the principle of sacrifice is stated briefly when the Gita tells us: sahayajñ?? praj?? s???v? purov?ca praj?pati?, anena prasavi?yadhvam e?a vostv i??ak?madhuk (Gita 3.10). When Prajapati, the Creator, manifested this universe and projected individuals like us, he also ordained, at the same time, that the life of an individual is inextricably involved in the process of the whole of creation through the bond of the principle of sacrifice. We live on account of the result that spontaneously follows from the act of the sacrifice that we perform in this world. We will wither away into airy nothing and will not be able to even survive for...

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, July 18, 2021. 8:40. PM. Chapter 10: The One Supreme Absolute Alone Is -1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The faculties of knowledge and action in the human individual correspond, practically, to the functions of reason, will, emotion, and the impulse to act. We rationally and intellectually consider the pros and cons of a particular step to be taken – this is the rationality behind our way of living. Apart from pure intellectual or rational assessment, there is also a faculty in us which goes by the name of will – volition – which decides and determines a course of action or a purpose to be fulfilled.  There is also a very important contributory factor in all of our engagements in life, namely emotion or feeling, and there is also the vigour which impulses to act. Practically, the human being is exhausted by these operations: reason...

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 17, 2021. 9:11. PM.  Chapter 11: The Yoga of Meditation -7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have been very sincere and honest in our efforts in the direction of Yoga, and it shall take care of us; it cannot desert us. And Yoga is a more loving mother than all the mothers that we can think of in the world. Or, the great Teacher, Krishna, tells us that one may be born as a child of a Yogi himself, and what can be a greater blessedness than that to a seeking soul? There is no fear of destruction or loss of effort. The Sixth Chapter concludes by saying that God is the Friend and Protector of all. We shall achieve peace of mind only when we realise that God is our Friend, and the only Friend, and the most real of all friends. When we turn to Him for succour, how could He desert...

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,  July 16, 2021. 8:02. PM. Discourse-10. The Fifth Chapter Begins: Knowledge and Action are One -1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter-4 of Gita : Slokas- 25 to 30.( 6 nos ) 1. daivam evāpare yajñaṁ yoginaḥ paryupāsate brahmāgnāvapare yajñaṁ yajñenaivopajuvhati (4.25) 2. śrotrādīnīndriyāṇyanye saṁyamāgniṣu juvhati śabdādīn viṣayān anya indriyāgniṣu juvhati (4.26) 3. sarvāṇīndriyakarmāṇi prāṇakarmāṇi cāpare ātmasaṁyamayogāgnau juvhati jñānadīpite (4.27) 4. dravyayajñās tapoyajñā yogayajñās tathāpare svādhyāyajñānayajñāś ca yatayaḥ saṁśitavratāḥ (4.28) 5. apāne juvhati prāṇaṁ prāṇe’pānaṁ tathāpare prāṇāpānagatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāmaparāyaṇāḥ (4.29) 6. apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣu juvhati sarve’pyete yajñavido yajñakṣapitakalmaṣāḥ (4.30) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, July 15, 2021. 9:30. PM. Chapter-12. Control of the Senses : 4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Where are we actually standing now, inward or outward? Sometimes we are pulled inward, sometimes outward. Now, mostly viewing things in the light of what we see in humanity at this moment of the twentieth century, we may say there is an extroversion of attitude, an impulsion to evaluate everything in life in terms of outward appearance and external arrangement. There is no inclination of any person to view things in terms of an inwardness of values. “So Arjuna, I am now going to answer your question, after having told you something as an introduction. This is the truth of the matter. Having known everything, yet...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, July 14, , 2021. 9 : 45. PM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-17. Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam : Introduction.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter-17.  Introduction-1. In this chapter the Supreme Lord Krishna explains the attributes and results of the three gunas or threefold modes of material nature: sattva guna or the mode of goodness, raja guna or the mode of passion and tama guna or the mode of ignorance. The words sastram-vidam refers to the ordinances, injunctions and prohibitions of the Vedic scriptures. An example of a prohibition is that the Vedic scriptures declare that it is forbidden to marry a virgin maiden no matter how qualified if her mother and father have a sapinda relationship with each other, meanin...