Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

====================================================================== ===================================================================== Tuesday, November 30, 2021. 6:00. PM. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita  Chapter-16. Understanding the Essence of the Mind - 1. (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti). ===================================================================== ======================================================================= The incarnation of God in the form of the perennial Incarnation gave rise to the consideration of the nature of action as such, what exactly action is. It appears that the matter is clear to our minds. Everyone knows what action is. It is someone doing something. But what does this mean? Who is that someone, and what is the thing that someone is doing? It is found that the question is not so easy to answer. The web of relations, which the world is, seems to be so intricately wound that any p...

====================================================================== ===================================================================== Monday, November 29, 2021. 7:00 PM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-17. { Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam } Slokam-13. ====================================================================== BG 17.13:  vidhiheenamasrishtaannam mantraheenamadakshinam | shraddhaavirahitam yajnyam taamasam parichakshate || 13 || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : vidhiheenam : contrary to scripture asrishtaannam : without distribution of food mantraheenam : without chanting of hymns adakshinam : without donation to priests shraddhaavirahitam : performed without faith yajnyam : sacrifice taamasam : taamasic parichakshate : they call   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam translation : ...

 ====================================================================== ===================================================================== Sunday, November 28, 2021.6:00. PM. A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 8 - 5.  Chapter 8 : The Stages of Yoga -5. ===================================================================== As a little self you seem to be working even in the dream state, but you are a larger self in the waking state. The so-called distractions and diversification, and the varieties of the dream world, get absorbed into a larger self of your waking consciousness. In this Yoga that is briefly stated here, you raise your lower self to the higher Self that you are, and you become atmavan – true possessor of your own Self. You have lost yourself now by the wrong notion that things are outside you; therefore, you have to possess them or reject them. The desire to possess and reject arises on account of the wrong notion that the things that you want to possess or reject a...

 ====================================================================== ======================================================================= Saturday, November 27, 2021. 8:00. PM. The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita-14-2. Chapter-14. The Glory and Majesty of the Almighty-2. ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Every speck of space, every atom of matter, can be regarded as a vehicle which reflects one face of God. To think God would be to drown one's self in an indescribable completeness whereby one loses one's presence, the individuality evaporates like mist before the blazing Sun. But if there is any desire in the mind to worship God for personal purposes, if there is a desire to go to heaven and enjoy the delights of celestial life, it should be noted that even meritorious deeds have an end. They exhaust themselves when the force of karma is depleted, and there is a reve...

 ==================================================================== ====================================================================== Friday, November 26, 2021. 8:00.PM Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : Discourse 40 The Thirteenth Chapter Concludes – Understanding Purusha and Prakriti POST-5. ==================================================================== Puruṣaḥ prakṛtistho hi bhuṅkte prakṛtijān guṇān, kāraṇaṁ guṇasaṅgo’sya: The reason for this so-called enjoyment and suffering of the purusha is its contact with the gunas of prakriti—sattva, rajas, tamas. And, as I mentioned, the threefold contact brings about a threefold experience: pleasurable, unpleasurable or static. Because of repeated contact and getting habituated to this kind of contact with sattva, rajas and tamas, the purusha—as it were, indescribably though— forgets its original universality, and develops a tendency to get involved in the fulfilment of its own limited desires, the limitation being caused by t...

 ====================================================================== Swami Swaroopananda November 22 at 9:06 PM  ·  Chinmaya Tapovan Ashram is located in the idyllic valley of Sidhbari, where this great institution was founded by Pujya Gurudev, to impart in-depth learning of the Gita and the Vedantic scriptures. Seekers can find themselves within the heart of nature, surrounded by majestic Himalayan peaks, imbibing knowledge at the various camps and discourses conducted at the Sandeepan HIM. The entire campus has a positive, vibrating energy drawn from Gurudev’s samadhi alongside the Shri Rama and Shri Hanumana temples. ==================================================================== Thursday, November 25, 2021. 7:00. PM. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity :15-3 The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita  Chapter -15. Seeing the Eternity in the Temporal-3 (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti). =============================================================...

 ====================================================================== Swami Swaroopananda November 22 at 9:06 PM  ·  Chinmaya Tapovan Ashram is located in the idyllic valley of Sidhbari, where this great institution was founded by Pujya Gurudev, to impart in-depth learning of the Gita and the Vedantic scriptures. Seekers can find themselves within the heart of nature, surrounded by majestic Himalayan peaks, imbibing knowledge at the various camps and discourses conducted at the Sandeepan HIM. The entire campus has a positive, vibrating energy drawn from Gurudev’s samadhi alongside the Shri Rama and Shri Hanumana temples. ====================================================================== Wednesday, November 24, 2021. 7:00 PM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-17. { Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam } ====================================================================== Slokam-13. "vidhi-hinam asrshtannam   mantra-hinam-adakshinam, sraddha-virahitam  yajnam ...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Tuesday, November 23, 2021.7:00. PM. A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 8 - 4.  Chapter 8 : The Stages of Yoga -4. ======================================================================= Actually, no fruit can follow from the work that you do, because the work that you appear to be doing is only a necessary sharing of your personality with the Cosmic Person. You are not working, actually speaking, when you seem to be working. You are only sharing. It is a dialogue between man and God—a constant Nara-Narayana Samvada, Sri Krishna-Arjuna Samvada taking place in your demeanour. Every moment of time you are having a concourse with God in your approach to things, in your attitude, generally speaking, and in anything that you do. In everything you do, you are contacting God. You have a dialogue with the Absolute, with nature, with all things. S...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Monday, November 22, 2021. 8:00. PM. The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita-14-1. Chapter-14. The Glory and Majesty of the Almighty-1. ======================================================================= A powerful religious impulse permeates the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Chapters of the Bhagavadgita. The religious consciousness reaches its culmination by certain specific stages in these central chapters. The presence of God becomes a more intimate affair than it was in the earlier stages. God does not any more remain merely as a Creator, a transcendent Father, capable of attainment, perhaps, after the shedding of the physical body. In the Eighth Chapter, and even in the earlier ones, we do not seem to have been given any hope of God being capable of contact in this particular life. It seemed that the chances are remote, and even when it lo...

======================================================================= ====================================================================== Sunday, November 21, 2021. 8:00.PM Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : Discourse 40 The Thirteenth Chapter Concludes – Understanding Purusha and Prakriti POST-4. ========================================================================= Prakriti and purusha may be said to be anadi, or beginningless, if we are to go according to the original doctrine of the Bhagavadgita, which does not expect us to think of  purusha and prakriti as two different things but as potencies, powers, or manners of working of God Himself—Ishvara, Purushottama. On the one hand, prakriti is extension, spacetime; and on the other hand, there is purusha, or consciousness.  Consciousness and extension constitute the principle of the immanence of God in the universe. I am going a little ahead of the ordinary commentaries on this verse, which are very brief—not to cont...