Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Thursday, December 01, 2022. 09:30. Chapter 1 : The Universal Scope of the Bhagavadgita - 5. ========================================================================= One might be surprised that this Divine Message, which should be regarded as spiritual in its character, has been imparted at a very critical moment, when a war was about to take place, in a battlefield, when people were up in arms to fly at each other's throats, when there was heat in the minds of all that were arrayed in the war-ground. We know what is battle; and an hour or so before this terrific occasion should be regarded as the time for giving a message of eternity. It was not taught in a school or a college; one would have expected such a masterly teaching to be conveyed to students in a church or a temple, in an academy, a university, a college, a hermitage, a mona...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Wednesday, November 30, 2022. 07:00. Chapter 29: The Yoga of the Bhagavadgita -2. ========================================================================= And down the person goes to the level of matter and the conditions prescribed by the sense organs because pleasure is not only tantalising, it is very attractive. Who can resist the attraction? And what attraction can be there in the ideology that you have placed before yourself in yoga? You have ideally pictured before your mind a pleasure centre, which you call the goal of yoga, but there is a real, concrete, tangible, contactable pleasure centre whose realism is overwhelmingly more impressive than the doubtful impressiveness of the pleasure of an ideal that is only in the mind of the seeker. These are difficulties indeed, hard things. Did not the Buddha feel this difficulty? “I a...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Monday, November 28, 2022. 09:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ========================================================================= Very important slokam Read carefully and  understand  well. ======================================================================== Slokam-58 : "maccittah   sarvadurgani   matprasadat   tarisyasi, atha   cet   tvamahankarat   na   sroshyasi   vinankshyasi." Translation : of Slokam : If you become conscious of Me, you will pass over all the obstacles of conditional life by My grace. If, however, you do not work in such consciousness but act through false ego, not hearing Me, you will be lost.  Translation : words mat   cittah   =   if  (you )  fix  ...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Sunday, November 27, 2022. 06:30. Chapter 1 : The Universal Scope of the Bhagavadgita - 4. ========================================================================= As we noticed earlier, the characters of the Mahabharata are present perpetually in the features of the human being, and so are the characters—Krishna and Arjuna. They are eternal realities, and not merely persons who might have lived historically some time, many years back. It is not a temporal history that is recounted to us in the epic, it is the story of the eternal drama that is played in the cosmos and is meaningful, therefore, for all times under every circumstance, to every person. As the message is imparted to the eternal individual by the eternal Reality, the teaching is also eternal. There is some essence in us which is perpetual in its nature, and that permanent...

 ======================================================================== Chinmaya Mission : Inauguration of Chinmaya Milan Manila, Phillipines 24th November 2022 was the auspicious day that all members of Chinmaya Mission Manila were waiting for all through the Pandemic for a formal inauguration of their new centre Chinmaya Milan by Swami Swaroopananda, Global Head Chinmaya Mission.  Invoking Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda and offering Paduka puja the centre was declared open for all public events and programmes of Chinmaya Mission.  The centre also welcomed a new Sevak Brni. Satrupa who studied in the 18th batch Vedanta Course and will be serving the communities of Chinmaya Mission Manila. The centre has a multi purpose prayer hall that can accomodate 200 people with the altars of Shri Rama and Hanuman and Gurudev, 5 classrooms for Bala Vihar, CHYK and Study Classes, a bookstore and 2 resident teachers living quarters. ================================================...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Thursday, November 24, 2022. 11:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. ========================================================================= Very important slokam Read carefully and  understand  well. ============================================================= Slokam-57.  "cetasa    sarvakarmani    mayi    sannyasya   matparah, buddhiyogamupasritya     maccittah    satatam   bhava. "In all activities just depend upon Me and work always under My protection. In such devotional service, be fully conscious of Me." cetasa    sarva   karmani    =   with  the  mind,  all  ( your )  activities; mayi    sannyasya    =    submitting  unto ...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Wednesday, November 23, 2022. 06:30. Chapter 1 : The Universal Scope of the Bhagavadgita - 3. ======================================================================= The Upanishads being such, the Bhagavadgita, which is regarded as the quintessence of the teachings of the Upanishads, is also venerated as an Upanishad. And, interestingly before us, it is mentioned in the plural, ‘Iti Srimad-Bhagavadgitasu Upanishatsu'. It is not one Upanishad. It appears to be many Upanishads brought together in a forceful concentration. Perhaps, each chapter is an Upanishad by itself; each chapter is a message by its own status. Well, there have been people who thought that even a single verse can be regarded as a message. Devotees of the Bhagavadgita have received inspiration from even one verse. One may open any page of the Bhagavadgita, and one will f...