Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ========================================================================= You change! The world will change. - Swami Chinmayananda Keeping this vision in mind, a massive initiative was held by Swami Turiyananda of Chinmaya Mission Kadapa. A special outreach programme was held to orient over 10K youngsters studying in Kadapa colleges about Chinmaya Yuva Kendra. To commemorate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, over 800 youngsters are expected to participate in Utthishta Bharata, a 3 day youth camp at Sri Lalitha Panchayatan Temple premises between 13-15 Aug 2022. CM Kadapa team invites  youth from Andhra and Telangana region to celebrate the 75 glorious years of India's Independence and become a part of this grand celebration! **** ======================================================================== Sunday, July 31, 2022. 18:45. Chapter 23: Introduction to the Sixth Chapter - 4. ========================================================================= There is an intelligent life op...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Saturday, July 30. 2022. 20:30.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ======================================================================== Slokam -29. "Buddherbhedam   dhrtescaiva    gunatastrividham   srnu, procyamanamaseshena   prthaktvena   dhananjaya." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-29.  Translation :  "Arjuna! please listen as I tell you in detail of the three kinds of understanding and determination according to the three modes of nature."  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation : dhananjaya  =  Arjuna! buddheh  dhrteh  ca  eva   =...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Friday, July29, 2022. 19:00.  Chapter 13: The Positivity and the Negativity of Experience - 2. ======================================================================== So in perception, it is not only necessary for the mind to assume a formation, it also has to know that such a formation has taken place. The objectivity or the objectness has to become a content of awareness in the subject. This awareness is a contribution that is made by the consciousness inside. This procedure adopted by consciousness in assisting the activity of the mind in perception is called phala vyapti. Thus, there is a consciousness of a form in the perception of an object. The form is the particularity that is the outcome of the shape that the mind has taken in enveloping that particular form, and consciousness of it is the effect of the Atman itself parti...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Wednesday, July 27, 2022. 20:45. Discourse 46: The Seventeenth Chapter Begins – The Threefold Character of Faith : 8. ========================================================================= Yat tu prattyupakārārthaṁ (17.21): If we give in charity because something will come out of it, because if we give something a double benefit will follow—that cannot be regarded as real charity, because we expect something from the good that we do. It cannot be called a really good deed.  Phalam uddiśya vā punaḥ: Because we always concentrate on what follows from this little sacrifice that we have performed, it is not real sacrifice. Dīyate ca parikliṣṭaṁ: If we give charity with great difficulty, reluctantly, niggardly, throw it at the face of a man and say, “Go! Don't come again!” it is not charity. Dīyate ca parikliṣṭaṁ is when we give charit...

 ========================================================================= About 38 Chinmaya Yuva Kendra (CHYK) members of Chennai and Kadapa were led by Swami Turiyananda (Kadapa) and Br. Anand Chaitanya (Chennai) is on an adventurous trek through the Seshachala forest and hills via Tumburu Teertham to Tirumala.   While trekking 16 Kms, This forest trek is known as one that has been traversed by Shri Annacharya many times while going to Tirumala. The CHYKs learnt about great saints who have done Tapas here like Matrusri Tarigonda Vengamamba and Malayala Swamy (Yerpedu Ashram Founder). The CHYKs enjoyed the lovely Tumburu falls before reaching Lord Venkateswara for special darshan. ===================================================================== #chinmayamission #chinmaya #chinmayayuvakendra #yuvakendra #chyks #yuvak #trekking #trek #chennai #swami #tapas #tapa #swami #turiyananda ======================================================================== Tuesday, July ...

======================================================================== ====================================================================== Monday, July 25. 2022. 20:30.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ======================================================================== Slokam-28. This slokam  explains  how  a  Tamasan  will  be.... "Ayuktah   prakrtah   stabdhah  satho  naishkrtikolasah, vishadi   dirghasutri   ca   karta   tamasah   ucyate." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-28. Translation : "And that worker who is always engaged in work against the injunction of the scripture, who is materialistic, obstinate, cheating and expert in insulting others, who is lazy, always morose and procrastinating, is a worker in the mode of ignorance." -----------------------...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== Sunday, July24, 2022. 19:00.  Chapter 13: The Positivity and the Negativity of Experience - 1. ========================================================================= Reference was made in the Fourteenth Chapter of the Gita to the three properties of Prakriti known as the gunas – sattva, rajas and tamas. It is on the basis of this distinction of the three properties of Prakriti manifested both cosmically and individually that in the Fifteenth Chapter a further distinction was drawn among Kshara, Akshara, and Purushottama. In a way, this distinction is comparable to the difference that we noticed earlier among adhyatma, adhibhuta and adhidaiva. Adhyatma is comparable with the Akshara Purusha, adhibhuta with the Kshara Purusha, and adhidaiva with the Purushottama. --------------------------------------------------------------------...

 ======================================================================= = ====================================================================== Saturday, July 23, 2022. 19:00. Discourse 46: The Seventeenth Chapter Begins – The Threefold Character of Faith : 7. = ======================================================================== Slokam-18 : "Satkaramanapujartham   tapo  dambhena  caiva  yat,  kriyate  tadiha  proktam   rajasam  calamadhruvam." (17.18):   ================================================ *Austerity that is performed with ostentation for the sake of gaining honor, respect, and adoration is in the mode of passion. Its benefits are unstable and transitory. *Those ostentatious penances and austerities which are performed in order to gain respect, honor and reverence are said to be in the mode of passion. They are neither stable nor permanent. ==========================================================...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Friday, July 22, 2022. 19:15. Chapter 23: Introduction to the Sixth Chapter - 2. ======================================================================== Arjuna's arguments were both social and political. Sometimes they were even personal. But we do not describe ourselves fully even when we consider ourselves as individuals or persons as we regard ourselves normally in the commonsense way of looking at things. We are not politicians really. We are also not social units really. But we are also not persons really. There is something more about us, so more and more is to be learned about ourselves as we become more and more inward in our outlook of life. In the crudest form of behaviour and enterprise, we are totally extrovert. We are immensely busy bodies, as if the world outside alone is, and we are nobodies at all. Our existence becomes ...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Thursday, July 21. 2022. 20:30.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ======================================================================== Slokam-27. "Ragi   karmaphalaprepsuh  lubdho   himsatmakosucih, harshasokanvitah   karta    rajasah   parikirtitah." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-27.    But that worker who is attached to the fruits of his labor and who passionately wants to enjoy them, who is greedy, envious and impure and moved by happiness and distress, is a worker in the mode of passion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation  : Ragi   =  one...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== Wednesday, July20, 2022. 20:00.  Chapter 12: Communing with the Absolute through the Cosmic Tree - 8. ======================================================================== These gunas are described in the Fourteenth Chapter, suggesting thereby that they constitute the be-all and end-all of everything. To remove the idea of tangibility and solidity, substantiality, etc., an additional chapter is devoted, which is the Fourteenth, where we come to know that the entire world which looks so hard, so solid and charged with gravitations of every kind is, after all, not so constituted. Appearances are deceptive. Things are not what they seem. The world is not solid. We feel the solidity of a table or a chair when we touch it with our fingers; but we are told today it is due to the electrical impulses created between the molecules consti...