Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ============================================================= ============================================================= Saturday, April 30 2022. 20:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sanyasa-yogam -11. ============================================================== Slokam-11. "Na hi deha-bhrita shakyam tyaktum karmany asheshatah yas tu karma-phala-tyagi sa tyagity abhidhiyate." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation : na—not;  hi—indeed;  deha-bhṛitā—for the embodied being;  śhakyam—possible;  tyaktum—to give up;  karmāṇi—activities;  aśheṣhataḥ—entirely;  yaḥ—who;  tu—but;  karma-phala—fruits of actions;  tyāgī—one who renounces all desires for enjoying the fruits of actions;  saḥ—they;  tyāgī—one who renounces all desires for enjoying the fruits of actions;  iti—as;  abhidhīyate—are said. --------------------------------------...

 ============================================================= ============================================================== Friday, April 29, 2022. 20:30. Chapter 11: Beholding God as He Beholds Himself-2. ============================================================== Bhūtabhāvodbhavakaro visargaḥ karmasaṁj–itaḥ:  What is karma? Generally we understand karma to be some action that we perform, any action that produces some result, fruit, or reaction. The energy that is the cause of the manifestation of beings is called karma, according to this definition in the half slokam.  Bhūta bhāva udbhava:  that which causes the emanation of all beings right from the time the Creative Will started operating in the direction of the manifestation of categories. Ishvara willed, Hiranyagarbha willed, Virat willed. All these wills of the cosmic manifestation engender further evolution in the process of creation, and individuals of various species are born. Every living being, every...

 =========================================================== ============================================================ Friday, April 29, 2022. 05:00. Discourse 44:  The Sixteenth Chapter Begins –  Divine and Undivine Qualities POST-31. ============================================================ We are now in the Sixteenth Chapter, which is called the chapter that distinguishes between qualities that are divine and qualities that are not divine. The description is mostly from the point of view of an ethical distinction in order to determine what is divine and what is undivine, but it is based on the final goal of life that is described in the earlier chapters. The goodness or the badness of a particular quality or action, the divinity or the demoniacal nature of any behaviour, cannot be asserted entirely by social standards. They become acceptable or not acceptable on account of their relevance to the ultimate goal of life. If there is total harmony and relevance with ...

 ========================================================= ================================================================ Friday, April 22, 2022. 19: 00 Chapter 20: The Arising of the Concept of Unity-3. ================================================================ It has already been said in the Third Chapter of the Bhagavadgita that all contact is gunas moving among gunas:  guṇā guṇeṣu vartante (BG 3.28)  The three gunas, sattva, rajas and tamas, in the form of the sense organs collide with the objects outside in space and time, which are also constituted of the very same three gunas. Then there is a final deciding factor in all operations in life. We have no particular, personal say in any manner. Therefore, no one can say, “Let me have this for some time.” Neither the one who says that has any permission to stay beyond a certain limit of temporal duration, nor the object which is so expected can endure in a similar manner. There is anxiety, there is tapa, sorrow,...

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Wednesday, April 20, 2022. 20:00. Prelude to the Bhagavad Geeta : Meditation on the Bhagavad Geeta. =============================================================== 18 Episodes :  ============================================================= Episode 1: How the Writing Began Episode 2: The Story of Bhishma Episode 3: Amba Seeks Revenge on Bhishma Episode 4: The Story of Vidhura Episode 5: The Story of Queen Kunti Episode 6: The Young Princes Grow Up Together  Episode 7: The Development of Karna  Episode 8: The “Wax Palace” Episode 9: The Pandavas Enjoy Some Peace! Episode 10: Draupadi’s Swayamwaram Episode 11: The Pandavas Settle in Indraprastham Episode 12: The “Gambling Match” ================================================================ Episode 13 : The De-Robing of Draupadi  In this land of Dharma, for such a thing to happen is most ...

================================================================ =============================================================== Monday, April 25 2022. 19:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sanyasa-yogam -10. =============================================================== Slokam-10 : "na dveshty akushalam karma kushale nanushajjate tyagi sattva-samavishto medhavi chhinna-sanshayah." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation :  na—neither;  dveṣhṭi—hate;  akuśhalam—disagreeable;  karma—work;  kuśhale—to an agreeable;  na—nor;  anuṣhajjate—seek;  tyāgī—one who renounces desires for enjoying the fruits of actions;  sattva—in the mode of goodness;  samāviṣhṭaḥ—endowed with;  medhāvī—intelligent;  chhinna-sanśhayaḥ—those who have no doubts --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translatio...

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Monday, April 24, 2022. 20:00. Chapter 11: Beholding God as He Beholds Himself-1. ============================================================== The Lord made a reference to certain items which stimulated the mind of Arjuna, on account of which he raised certain questions. The concluding verses of the Seventh Chapter are as follows:  jarāmaraṇamokṣāya mām āśritya yatanti ye, te brahma tad viduḥ kṛtsnam adhyātmaṁ karma cākhilam (Gita 7.29);  sādhibhūtādhidaivaṁ māṁ sādhiyaj–aṁ ca ye viduḥ, prayāṇakālepi ca māṁ te vidur yuktacetasaḥ (Gita 7.30). ================================================================ The words are : jarāmaraṇamokṣāya : for freedom from old age and death;  mām āśritya yatanti ye : whoever puts forth effort depending on Me as their final refuge;  te brahma tad viduḥ kṛtsnam : they know the Absolute's real natur...

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Saturday, April 23, 2022. 21:00. Discourse 43: The Fifteenth Chapter Concludes – The Greatest Secret Revealed : POST-30 ================================================================ Uttamaḥ puruṣas tvanyaḥ (15.17):  There is a third something. The Supreme Purusha is different from both the purusha and prakriti mentioned. He is called Paramatma, the Supreme Self. We may call the purusha of the Sankhya as a kind of self, but this is a Supreme Self which includes every other kind of self, and all selves are subsumed under this universal inclusiveness. Yo lokatrayam āviśya bibhartyavyaya īśvaraḥ: That Supreme Paramatman, the all-pervading Self enveloping the three worlds, supports the three worlds as the Lord of all. In the state of Ishvara or Hiranyagarbha, there are no subjects and objects, and there is no seeing and seen. The seer-seen context ar...

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Friday, April 22, 2022. 19: 00 Chapter 20: The Arising of the Concept of Unity-2. ================================================================ We need not enter into this metaphysical theme of Buddhism. However, that the joys of life are momentary is something well known. There is a sorrow in the beginning, and a sorrow in the end. When it has not come, it is a source of sorrow; when it goes, it is a source of sorrow. This is parinama, the consequence of enjoyment through sense indulgence. And it need not be imagined that for a short duration we may enjoy it even if it is to go after some time, because no one knows when it will go. It does not guarantee that it shall be with us for a long time. Hence, the imagination that one can possess and enjoy a desired object for even a temporary period should be considered as an unjustifiable position. Now, ju...

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Wednesday, April 20, 2022. 20:00. Prelude to the Bhagavad Geeta : Meditation on the Bhagavad Geeta. =============================================================== 18 Episodes :  ============================================================= Episode 1: How the Writing Began Episode 2: The Story of Bhishma Episode 3: Amba Seeks Revenge on Bhishma Episode 4: The Story of Vidhura Episode 5: The Story of Queen Kunti Episode 6: The Young Princes Grow Up Together  Episode 7: The Development of Karna  Episode 8: The “Wax Palace” Episode 9: The Pandavas Enjoy Some Peace! Episode 10: Draupadi’s Swayamwaram Episode 11: The Pandavas Settle in Indraprastham ================================================================ Episode 12: The “Gambling Match” ================================================================ Man is usually caught in any one or m...

 =============================================================== ============================================================== Tuesday, April 19, 2022. 20:00.  Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-18.  Moksha-sanyasa-yogam  =============================================================== Slokam-9. "Karyam ity eva yat karma niyatam kriyate ‘rjuna sangam tyaktva phalam chaiva sa tyagah sattviko matah." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation BG 18.9: When actions are undertaken in response to duty, and one relinquishes attachment to any reward, O Arjuna, it is considered renunciation in the nature of goodness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : kāryam—as a duty;  iti—as;  eva—indeed;  yat—which;  karma niyatam—obligatory actions;  kriyate—are performed;  arjuna—Arjuna;  saṅgam—a...

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Monday, April 18, 2022. 20:00. Chapter 10: The Hidden Meaning of the Seventh Chapter of the Gita-10. ============================================================== "Udarah sarva evaite jnani tvatmaiva me matam asthitah sa hi yuktatma mam evanuttamam gatim."  (Gita 7.18).  BG 7.18: All those who are devoted to Me are indeed noble. But those in knowledge, who are of steadfast mind, whose intellect is merged in Me, and who have made Me alone as their supreme goal, I consider as My very self. Why do I consider the jnani as the highest of beings? Because he does not exist at all apart from Me. The other devotees exist as recipients of the bounties and abundances that they expect from Me. The jnani does not exist at all. He has vanished into thin air and become Me, so he stands as the I of the Supreme Lord. With this description of the devotees and ...

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Sunday, April 17, 2022. 19:00. Chapter-18 The Yoga of the Liberation of  Spirit - 6. ============================================================== In the light of the purpose of the universe, which is a gradual evolution into the realisation of the freedom of the Spirit, from this point of view at least, all stages of evolution are a rise from an organic completeness of one type to another of a larger dimension and comprehension. War, battle, destruction, annihilation is not the purpose of Nature. Growth, evolution, constructive activity, and purposeful movement towards the ultimate realisation is the aim of the universe. Hence, we have to share knowledge, will, emotion and work among ourselves. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These categorisations of social groups into cl...