Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ============================================================= ============================================================= Monday, January 31, 2022. 19:00.  The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti). Chapter 18: Reconciling Knowledge and Action 3. ============================================================= Bhagawan Sri Krishna However, the point that we are made to understand here is that the world is not made up of material substances, and also it is not made up of located objects here and there, spread out like items in a zoo or a museum. It is a difficult to understand position of every inch of movement conditioning every other spread-out form of that very same energy. The Bhagavadgita tells us that when we conceive of ourselves in our relation to reality in the degrees of expression of which it is capable, we have to understand that the nearer we go to it, the better it is for us. The nearness here consists in the proper and adequate co...

============================================================= ============================================================ Sunday, January 30, 2022. 20:30 Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-17. { Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam } Slokam-25. ============================================================= BG 17.25. "Tad ity anabhisandhaya phalam yajna-tapah-kriyah dana-kriyash cha vividhah kriyante moksha-kankshibhih." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : tat—the syllable Tat;  iti—thus;  anabhisandhāya—without desiring;  phalam—fruitive rewards;  yajña—sacrifice;  tapaḥ—austerity;  kriyāḥ—acts;  dāna—charity;  kriyāḥ—acts;  cha—and;  vividhāḥ—various;  kriyante—are done;  mokṣha-kāṅkṣhibhiḥ—by seekers of freedom from material entanglements. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation of Slo...

 ============================================================ ============================================================= Saturday, January 29, 2022. 20:00. Chapter : 9. The Yoga of Meditation.7. =============================================================== SBG-ch-6.slo-6. "Bandhur atmatmanas tasya yenatmaivatmana jitah anatmanas tu shatrutve vartetatmaiva shatru-vat." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ These two verses in the beginning of the Sixth Chapter are crucial in their meaning.  Bandhur atmatmanas tasya yenatmaivatmana jitah :  The Self is the friend of the self of that person who has overcome the lower self by the higher Self. The Self is the enemy of the self of that person who has not been able to overcome the lower self by the higher. Here is a concentrated, very valuable instruction for spiritual seekers in the art of meditation, put in a little capsule. SBG-Ch-6. Slo-11. Huchau de...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Friday, January 28, 2022. 19:30. Chapter -16. The Supreme Person - 3. ================================================================ To cut at the root of the universe is not an easy task. It requires a great understanding of the structure of the universe. It would mean that to cut at the root of phenomena would be to cut at our own roots, to fell the tree of ego, and nothing can be a harder job than to deal with one's own self. We cannot tackle our own selves because we are not any more an object to ourselves. We are accustomed to deal with things and objects, but we do not regard ourselves as objects or things, and therefore we are incapable of handling or dealing in any way. We remain a hard-boiled indescribable something, and the source of our sorrows are our own selves. Nobody causes grief to us. We tie ourselves up like silkworms in a cocoon by ou...

============================================================== ============================================================== Thursday, January 27, 2022.19:13. Discourse 41 The Fourteenth Chapter: Rising Above the Three Gunas POST-17. ============================================================== SBG -14.17. "Sattvat sanjayate jnanam rajaso lobha eva cha pramada-mohau tamaso bhavato ’jnanam eva cha." ------------------------------------------------------- Sattvat sanjayate jnanam : Knowledge arises through sattva. Intellectuality, rationality, understanding, education, wisdom—all these are qualities of sattva.  Rajaso lobha eva ca : Greed is the quality of rajas.  Pramada-mohau tamaso bhavato ’jnanam eva cha : Ajnana (ignorance) and the inability to do anything with a consciousness of the effect of the action are results of tamoguna prakriti. Having mentioned the variation in the results that accrue from the three guṇas, Shree Krishna now gives the reason for this. Sattva guṇ...

=============================================================== ============================================================= Wednesday, January 26, 2022. 20:00.  The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti).  Chapter 18: Reconciling Knowledge and Action - 2. =============================================================== Yet, the more subtle is the sacrifice, the better it is in the production of permanent result, or effect.  "Shreyan dravya-mayad yajnaj jnana-yajnah parantapa sarvam karmakhilam partha jnane parisamapyate." (BG 4.33)  O subduer of enemies, sacrifice performed in knowledge is superior to any mechanical material sacrifice. After all, O Parth, all sacrifices of work culminate in knowledge. Knowledge is superior to material possession, a thing which we have yet to learn in our modern culture. We do not pay much respect to knowledge. There is respect only to material property, house, wife, land, husband, money, status and so...

============================================================== ============================================================== Tuesday, January 25, 2022. 20:00 Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-17. { Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam } ============================================================ Slokam-24.  "Tasmadomityudahrtya  yajnadanatapahkriyah, pravartante  vidhanoktah   satatam  brahma-vadinam." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam Meaning : "Thus the transcendentalists undertake sacrifices, charities, and penances, beginning always with om, to attain the Supreme." "Therefore, when performing acts of sacrifice, offering charity, or undertaking penance, expounders of the Vedas always begin by uttering “Om” according to the prescriptions of Vedic injunctions." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : tasmat...

============================================================= =============================================================== Monday, January 24, 2022.  21:00.  Chapter : 9. The Yoga of Meditation.6. =============================================================== Everyone has to judge oneself. A check-up of personality is to be maintained with a spiritual diary. It is necessary to check up: “How far have I progressed? Are there any obstacles which are emotionally disturbing me, or am I intellectually in a state of doubt?” Intellectual restlessness and emotional tension is instinctive if there are frustrations of any kind. Do you want something that you cannot get, or are you getting something that you do not want? These are the causes of difficulties. Many of the difficulties of a spiritual seeker will not be visible in the beginning. You may look as though everything is all right, that nothing is wrong. You sit for meditation. But if you continue to do it for some two or thre...

============================================================= ================================================================ Sunday, January 23, 2022. 20:00. Chapter -16. The Supreme Person -2. =============================================================== But to us, it is all a mystery. We do not know where it begins and where it ends. We cannot know the origin of it, we cannot know the culmination of it, and we cannot know the middle of it. Infinite is this universe, and the infinite universe emanates from the infinite Brahman. Infinite are also the varieties it manifests before us, and infinite is even the mystery that is hidden in the way in which it expresses itself. The whole process of creation is a marvel, and is not capable of being understood by any individual, at any time. Not one can say that he can comprehend the mystery of the cosmos. All knowledge, all activity, everything objective, is within this tree of the universe, and whatever we are and whatever we know is phen...