Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ============================================================ ============================================================= Monday, February 28, 2022. 20:00. Chapter-18.( "Moksha-Sanyasa-Yogam" ) ============================================================= Slokam -2. sri- bhagavan  uvaca "kamyanam  karmanam  nyasam  sanyasam  kavayo  vidhuh, sarvakarmaphalatyagam  prahustyagam  vicakshanah." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slokam-2. meaning : "The Supreme Lord said, To give up the results of all activities is called renunciation [tyaga] by the wise. And that state is called the renounced order of life [sanyasa] by great learned men." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : bhagavan  uvaca  =  Lord Sri Krishna said; kamyanam   karmanam   nyasam  =  ...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Sunday, February 27, 2022. 20:00. Chapter-10. The Hidden Meaning of the Seventh Chapter of the Gita-1. ================================================================ The first six chapters of the Bhagavadgita stand by themselves as unique teachings on the integration of the human personality, which process was described gradually right from the First Chapter. The Gita, as a very good psychologist and a master teacher to students, takes its stand on the level of the student, and endeavours to gradually raise the mind of the student from that pedestal on which the student stands. Though the student is Arjuna in this particular context, the student is every one of us, humanity in general. Arjuna finds himself in a highly non-aligned and disturbed circumstance of conflict of every kind, with difficulties galore. This is described in the First Chapter; and yo...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Saturday, February 26, 2022. 20:00. Chapter 17. The Play of the Cosmic Powers-4. ============================================================== GITOAPADESAM The practice of Yoga is not, therefore, a simple affair. It is hard, because we have to move in the midst of two opposing currents of power, and with whatever understanding we have, it is necessary for us to free ourselves from involvement in the outward-going impulses. The effort of consciousness to move in harmony with the inward-going urges, tending towards the Centre which is everywhere, which is what we call God, the Absolute, is Yoga proper. In a traditional and epic manner, the Sixteenth Chapter of the Gita speaks of these two powers, the demoniacal and the divine, with this philosophical and spiritual background of its message. It is, ordinarily, not easy to go with the current of the inward-m...

 ============================================================= ================================================================ Friday, February 25, 2022.19:00 Discourse 42 : Chapter-15 Begins: The world as an Inverted Tree. POST-22. =============================================================== This point is similar to the other well-known analogy of two birds perched on a single tree.  This analogy is in the Veda and also in the Upanishad.  ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mundakopanishad :Chapter-3, Section-1, Mantram-1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Dvau suparna sayuja sakhaya samanam vrksham parisasvajate,  tayor anyah pippalam svadv atty- anasnan anyo abhicakasiti."  On this large tree, two birds are perched.  One of the birds is busy eating the sweet berries, the fruits that are yielded by this wonderful tree, but, unfortunately, these are forbidden fruit.  So delicious is th...

 =========================================================== ================================================================ Thursday, February 24, 2022. 20:00.  The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti). Chapter 18: Reconciling Knowledge and Action - 7. ============================================================= Action cannot bind, because action is not anybody's action. It is an interrelated cooperative society, as it were, which this universe is. In a large democratic setup, we may say, which this cosmos is, no one is the owner of any particular property. The whole universe is a self-contained system where each one participates in the performance of this great duty of the purposiveness of creation, and we need not have any property. It is not necessary to possess anything. The idea of possession is a disease of the human mind. No possession is necessary. Why do we want to possess? Why is there so much greed? And what can we possess? It is...

 ============================================================== ============================================================ Wednesday, February 23, 2022. 20:00. MAHABHARATAM : ( (in 18 Episodes) - Prelude to the Bhagavad Geeta Post-3. =============================================================== Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the Series of 13 Lectures by Swami Advayananda Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai Mahabharata: October 8th – October 18th , 2012 (10 Lectures) Geeta Dhyanam: October 25th– October 27th, 2012 (3 Lectures). =============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya Swami Sivananda Swami Tapovanji Swami Chinmayananda SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== THE START OF THE MAHABHARATA WAR: Episode 1: How the Writing Began. The story below gives the background to the Mahabharata War. By the time Sanjaya gives his ...

 ================================================================ =============================================================== Tuesday, February 22, 2022. 19:00. Chapter-18.( "Moksha-Sanyasa-Yogam" ) =============================================================== Slokam-1. Arjuna uvacha, "Sannyasasya  mahabaho  tattvam icchami veditum, tyagasya   ca   hrsikesa  prthak   kesini sudana." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation of Slokam :   Arjuna said,  "O Lord, I wish to understand the purpose of renunciation [tyaga] and of the renounced order of life [sannyasa]."  Arjuna said : O mighty-armed Krishna, I wish to understand the nature of sanyās (renunciation of actions) and tyāg (renunciation of desire for the fruits of actions). O Hrishikesh, I also wish to know the distinction between the two, O Keshini Sudan. -------------------------------------------------------------------...

 ============================================================== ================================================================ Monday, February 21, 2022. 20:00. Chapter : 9. The Yoga of Meditation.11. ============================================================== Great difficulty is there. Arjuna, hearing all this great instruction, said, “Lord, it is wonderful! Is it possible to achieve this state in this life? Life is short, time is fleeting; how long are we going to live in this world? Maybe for a few years. In these few years, will I be able to attain to this supreme state of bliss that you have been describing as the consequence of this meditation on the Self?” Suppose the person dies in the middle, before achieving anything palpable in meditation. What is the state of that person in the next birth? No problem! Great consolation comes from the Master. Even a little good effort in this world in the right direction will pay its dividend. Even a minute of thought of God correct...

 ============================================================= ============================================================= Sunday, February 20, 2022. 19:00. Chapter 17. The Play of the Cosmic Powers-3. ============================================================== These forces work perpetually, without a beginning and an end, and they work everywhere, so that nothing is free from their operations. The evolution and the involution of the universe are the working of these two urges, and no one can humanly understand as to how and why they are operating in this manner. It is a mystery transcending human comprehension, because human beings are already involved in the working of these forces, and how can they understand their intentions? They range above the human intellect and the capacity of the individual in any manner. But, the Bhagavadgita emphasises that it is the duty of everyone to get out of the clutches of these outward going urges which lodge the consciousness in name and f...

 ============================================================ ============================================================ Saturday, February 19, 2022. 20:00 Discourse 42 : Chapter-15 Begins: The world as an Inverted Tree. POST-21. =================== Chapter-15. Slokam-2. Adhaś cordhvaṁ prasṛtās tasya śākhā guṇapravṛddhā  viṣayapravālāḥ, adhaś ca mūlānyanusaṁtatāni karmānubandhīni manuṣyaloke (15.2):  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The branches of this tree are spread out in all directions, both above and below, and these branches have become very stout, being fed with the food of the three gunas of prakriti—sattva, rajas and tamas, which are the diet for this tree; and all the fine leaves which are shining at the end of these branches, which are attractive to the senses, are the objects of perception: viṣayapravālāḥ. Adhaś ca mūlānyanusaṁtatāni karmānubandhīni manuṣyaloke: At the base of this ma...

 ================================================================ =============================================================== Friday, February 18, 2022. 20:00.  The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti). Chapter 18: Reconciling Knowledge and Action - 6. ================================================================ First of all, you must understand what a person is. If you think that you are the body, naturally you cannot become the action, you cannot melt the body in action. But you are not the body. This is what we are dinning into the ears of everyone. You are a status, a consciousness, an awareness, an idea, a concept. This must be accepted first. This we have already understood to some extent when we considered this issue a few minutes before. Therefore, your engagement in action does not mean the body getting engaged – yourself getting engaged. And what are you? Just consider what you are. You are an ideal, an idea, a sense of being...

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Thursday, February 17, 2022. 19:00. MAHABHARATAM : ( (in 18 Episodes) - Prelude to the Bhagavad Geeta Post-2. =============================================================== Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the Series of 13 Lectures by Swami Advayananda Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai Mahabharata: October 8th – October 18th , 2012 (10 Lectures) Geeta Dhyanam: October 25th– October 27th, 2012 (3 Lectures). =============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya Swami Sivananda Swami Tapovanji Swami Chinmayananda SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== THE START OF THE MAHABHARATA WAR: Episode 1: How the Writing Began. The story below gives the background to the Mahabharata War. By the time Sanjaya gives hi...