Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Thursday, June 30, 2022. 05:00. AM. Meditation on the Bhagavad Geeta :  (9 Slokas) ================================================================ Slokam-6. The River of Battle "Bhishma drona tata  jayadratha jala  gandhara-nilotpala, shalya grahavate krpena vahane,  karnena vela-akula; asvathama vikarna  ghora makara,  duryodhana-avartini,  sah uttirna khalu  pandavaih rana-nadi,  kaivartakah kesavah." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : 1 Bhishma drona tata  jayadratha jala  gandhara-nilotpala,  =  With Bhishma and  Drona as its  banks;  Jayadratha as its water;  with the King of Gandhara as a blue  water-lily; 2 shalya grahavate krpena vahane,  karnena vela-akula; With Shaly...

================================================================ ============================================================= Wednesday, June 29. 2022. 09:00. AM. Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ============================================================== 1. Slokam : 23. "Niyatam sanga-rahitam araga-dveshatah kritam aphala-prepsuna karma yat tat sattvikam uchyate." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : niyatam—in accordance with scriptures;  sanga-rahitam—free from attachment;  araga-dveshatah—free from attachment and aversion;  kritam—done;  aphala-prepsuna—without desire for rewards;  karma—action;  yat—which;  tat—that;  sattvikam—in the mode of goodness;  uchyate—is called. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation of the Slokam : Tattvam BG 18.23: Action that is in...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Tuesday, June 28, 2022. 06:30. AM. Chapter 12: Communing with the Absolute through the Cosmic Tree - 4. ======================================================================== But that also is not possible. You have an excuse for that also; even love is not possible. What else is possible? "I will do work. I am very busy with all kinds of work, so I have no time to love anybody." If you say that, okay; if you do not want to love even God Himself, do your work. But whatever fruit accrues out of your work, offer it to God. If you get something as a fruit, as a consequence, as a result, a fructification of your deeds, do not enjoy those fruits. The phala tyaga, or the abandonment of the fruits of one's action and the dedication of these fruits as a consecration to God, that also is a Yoga, and God says He can be satisfied with it...

======================================================================= ====================================================================== Monday, June 27, 2022. 05:00.AM, Discourse 46: The Seventeenth Chapter Begins – The Threefold Character of Faith : 2. POST-42. ===================================================================== Śraddhāmayoyaṁ puruṣaḥ: So faith, of course, is embodied in a person. Whatever we do is according to our faith, not necessarily according to our considered reason.  Yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ: As our faith is, so is our person.  Whatever we do, whatever we speak, whatever we think, the manner in which we behave, and the ideology that we hold aloft before us are some indications as to what kind of person we are, and are indications as to what kind of faith a person is entertaining—yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ. Briefly, in only two verses, the answer to Arjuna comes like a bombshell. This set of two verses is very concentrated, on which one could ...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== Sunday, June 26, 2022. 05:30 Chapter 22: The Integration of Sannyasa and Yoga -2. ======================================================================== Not merely that, which is bad enough, but even a philosophical cognition of the reality of an object outside, the acceptance of a so-called outsides in things, is also considered as an obstacle in the intentions of yoga practice. So it is certainly necessary for us to be emotionally detached from all objects. I see a garden, I see a tree, I see a person, I see this, I see that, but I should be undisturbed by the perception of that, as if it matters not whether it is there or it is not there. But mostly we are perturbed by the presence of something, in some way or another. This is emotional content getting directed outwardly to that particular given object. But yoga is still superior t...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Friday, June 24, 2022. 19:00 Meditation on the Bhagavad Geeta :  (9 Slokas) ======================================================================== Slokam-5. Salutations to the Avataram "Vasudeva sutam devam, kamsa chanura mardanam; devakI paramanandam, krishnam vande jagad gurum." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : 1 Vasudeva sutam devam,             = To the divine son of Vasudeva; 2 kamsa chanura mardanam;         = To the destroyer of Kamsa and Chanura; 3 devakI paramanandam,              = To the supreme joy of Devaki; 4 krishnam vande jagad                = To Sri Krishna the teacher of the un...

 ========================================================================= ==================================== Thursday, June 23. 2022. 19:25.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam -  ========================================================================= Slokam-22. "Yat tu kritsna-vad ekasmin karye saktam ahaitukam atattvartha-vad alpam cha tat tamasam udahritam." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : yat—which;  tu—but;  kṛitsna-vat—as if it encompasses the whole;  ekasmin—in  kārye—action;  saktam—engrossed;  ahaitukam—without a reason;  atattva-artha-vat—not based on truth;  alpam—fragmental;  cha—and;  tat—that;  tāmasam—in the mode of ignorance;  udāhṛitam—is said to be. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BG- 18.22: Tatt...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Wednesday, June 22, 2022. 21:30. Chapter 12: Communing with the Absolute through the Cosmic Tree - 3. ========================================================================= Taccintanaṃ tatkathanam anyonyaṃ tatprabhodhanam, etad ekaparatvaṃ ca brahmābhyāsaṃ vidur budhāḥ (Panchadasi 7.106).  Brahmārpaṇaṁ brahma havir brahmāgnau brahmaṇā hutam, brahmaiva tena gantavyaṁ brahmakarmasamādhinā (Gita 4.24).  These verses tell us that our occupation in daily life should also get melted down into the very process of meditation. Work and meditation do not stand apart in jnana. There is no secular life and spiritual life isolated from each other. In jnana, in wisdom of God, there is no secularity, materiality, externality, personality. All 'ities' vanish. There is only the wisdom of existence, wherein one beholds all things everywhere. I...

 ===================================================================== ========================================================================= Tuesday, June 21, 2022. 19:00. Discourse 46: The Seventeenth Chapter Begins – The Threefold Character of Faith : 1. POST-41. ======================================================================== This word ‘shastra' went into the mind of Arjuna so strongly that it raised a doubt in his mind, which led to his question in the beginning of the Seventeenth Chapter.  arjuna uvacha "Ye shastra-vidhim utsrijya yajante shraddhayanvitah tesham nishtha tu ka krishna sattvam aho rajas tamah." (17.1):  Arjuna asks, “O Lord! Those who do not follow the injunctions of the scriptures but work with faith, what do You say about them? Are they sattvic or rajasic or tamasic? Under what category do they come? Those who have intense faith and honestly do something without consulting scriptures—do You consider them as sattvic people? Are they good p...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================= Monday, June 20, 2022. 19:30 Chapter 22: The Integration of Sannyasa and Yoga -1. ========================================================================= The concluding verses of the Fifth Chapter were under our consideration.  Sparśān kṛtvā bahir bāhyāṁś cakṣuś caivāntare bhruvoḥ, prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā nāsābhyantaracāriṇau (BG 5.27);  yatendriyamanobuddhir munir mokṣaparāyaṇaḥ, vigatecchābhayakrodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ (BG 5.28).  All this has been observed yesterday. The act of self-restraint is summarised here in these two verses. Self-restraint is shutting out all sense contact by extricating the conscious element from externalised perception and enabling it to return to itself, which is the process of pratyahara, and regulating the process of breathing so that the alternate movement of the breathing process thro...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Sunday, June 19, 2022. 21:00 Meditation on the Bhagavad Geeta :  (9 Slokas)   Slokam- 4. The Cow, Cowherd & Milk of Geeta =========================================================================  Slokam- 4.  "Sarva upanishadah gavah, dogdha gopala nandanah;  parthah vatsah sudheh bhokta, dugdham geetaa-amritam mahat." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : 1 sarva upanishadah gavah,          = All the Upanishads are cows; 2 dogdha gopala nandanah;         = The milkman is the cowherd’s son, Krishna; 3.parthah vatsah sudheh bhokta,  = Paartha (Arjuna) is the calf; men of purified intellect are the enjoyers; 4 dugdham geetaa-amritam mahat. = the milk is the supr...

======================================================================================================= ======================================================================================================= Saturday, June 18, 2022. 22:25.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam -21. ======================================================================================================= 18-21: "prithaktvena tu yaj jnanam nana-bhavan prithag-vidhan  vetti sarveshu bhuteshu taj jnanam viddhi rajasam" ======================================================================================================= Translation: pṛithaktvena—unconnected;  tu—however;  yat—which;  jñānam—knowledge;  nānā-bhāvān—manifold entities;  pṛithak-vidhān—of diversity;  vetti—consider;  sarveṣhu—in all;  bhūteṣhu—living entities;  tat—that;  jñānam—knowledge;  viddhi—know;  rājasam—in the mode of passion ========================================...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Thursday, June 16, 2022. 06:00.AM. Chapter 12: Communing with the Absolute through the Cosmic Tree - 2. ========================================================================= The concept of God's personality arises on account of our impossibility to get over the consciousness of our own personality. God's personality, as we conceive it, is a cosmic counterpart of our own individual personality. It is an extension of our own notion of what we are, so that God would look like a big person and something like our own personality. We cannot think in any other manner. If we want to associate immense capacity and great knowledge and power with God, the only thing that people can think is that He has multiple powers. His eyes are everywhere, His hands are everywhere, His feet are everywhere, as the Gita tells us. Inasmuch as our hands or ...