Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...