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Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-18, Slokam - 75.

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========================================================================= Tuesday, January 31, 2023. 06:40.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. Slokam-75. ======================================================================== Slokam-75. With Translation : "vyasaprasadat   chrutavan    etat   guhyamaham    param, yogam   yogesvarat    krishnat  sakshat    kathayatah   svayam." "By the mercy of Vyasa, I have heard these most confidential talks directly from the master of all mysticism, Krishna, who was speaking personally to Arjuna."  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : vyasa-prasadat  =  by  the  blessings  of  Vyasa-bhagavan; guhyam   param   =   the  supreme  confidential; etat   yogam   =   this  yogam; yogesvarat    krishnat   =  the  Lord  of  all  yoga,  Lord  Sri  Krishn svayam    kathayatah   aham   =   himself  advising  ( to  arjuna ); sakshat   chruta

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 4.5. : Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Monday, January 30  2023. 08:00. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 5. ========================================================================= Now, we are ready for that, really. Suddenly we say, “We renounce father and mother, renounce every connection with the world. We shall have nothing to do with people. We seek God.” We move from one place to another place in this very world, and satisfy ourselves that the renunciation is complete. The great renunciation which the Bhagavadgita speaks of is not this much merely. It is not just a coming away from California to the Himalayas. It is a different thing altogether, which would not be easy for all people to understand; and if it had been so easy we would not be bungling in our spiritual life in the way we do every day. Arjuna could not grasp it, and how can we grasp it? We stumble into the same rut of thinking in spite of all our arguments and abilities a

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-18, Slokam - 74.

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======================================================================== Saturday, January 28, 2023. 07:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. Slokam-74. ========================================================================= Slokam-74. With Translation : sanjaya uvaca "ityaham   vasudevasya   parthasya   ca   mahatmanah, samvadamimamasrausham   adbhutam   romaharshanam." "Sanjaya said: Thus have I heard the conversation of two great souls, Krishna and Arjuna. And so wonderful is that message that my hair is standing on end." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : sanjaya uvaca  =  sanjaya  said; iti   vasudevasya   =   thus,  Paramatma  Lord  Sri  Krishna; mahatmanah   parthasya   ca   =   and   Mahatma   Arjuna; adbhutam   romaharshanam   =   wonderful   and   hair standing on end; imam   samvadam   =   this   discussion; aham   asrausham   =   I  heard!    ----

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 4.4. : Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Friday, January 27,  2023. 07:30. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 4. ========================================================================= There is a very interesting story. Narayana and Lakshmi were seated in Vaikuntha. Lakshmi cast a glance over the whole world and saw a pig wallowing in a mire, eating rubbish. She was really sorry. She told Narayana, “What is this creation of yours? If you wish, you can give salvation to anyone in a moment; and this is the compassion that you have! Look at this poor pig. Can you not bring it back to Vaikuntha? Why does it stink in mire?” Narayana said, “It does not want to come. If it does not want to come, what can I do?” “Oh, who will not want to come to Vaikuntha, the glorious paradise?” Lakshmi said. “But I tell you, it does not want to come,” said Narayana. Lakshmi again said, “Impossible! No one with sense will dislike to come to the glorious heaven of Vai

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-18, Slokam - 73.

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======================================================================= Wednesday, January 25, 2023. 07:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. Slokam-73. ========================================================================= Slokam-73.  With Translation : arjuna uvaca "nashto   mohah    smrtirlabdha    tvatprasadat    mayacyuta, sthitosmi    gatasandehah     karishye    vacanam    tava." "Arjuna said, O Krishna,  my illusion is now gone. I have regained my memory by Your mercy, and I am now firm and free from doubt and am prepared to act according to Your instructions." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : arjuna uvaca   =   Arjuna  said! acyuta!   =   O  Lord! tvat-prasadat   =  by  your  blessings: mohah  nashtah   =   dispelled  illusion; smrtih   maya   labdha    =   thereafter  regained  true / real  awareness; gata-sandehah   sthitah    asmi    =    and   

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 4.3. : Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Tuesday, January 24,  2023. 08:00. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 3. ========================================================================= But though we appear to be living in a terribly difficult atmosphere, impossible to understand, and more difficult to live in, there is something in us which compels us to get on in this world, notwithstanding the environment that is around us which threatens us every moment of time with consequences dire. All this does not matter; we, somehow or the other, wish to live, even if it be in hell itself. We wish to live here. The desire to live in hell is to be explained. The explanation comes only from something mysterious within us which does not belong to this phenomenal world, and which we cannot understand with the phenomenal mind, understanding, or reason. We are between the devil and deep sea, pulling us in different directions—something telling us something

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-18, Slokam - 72.

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========================================================================= Sunday, January 22, 2023. 08:00.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. Slokam-72. ======================================================================== Slokam-72. with Transltion : "kaccidetat    chrutam   partha    tvayaikagrenacetasa, kaccidajnanasammohah    pranashtaste   dhananjaya." "O  Arjuna! have you heard this attentively with your mind? And are your illusions and ignorance now dispelled? " --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : partha   dhananjaya   =   Arjuna! etat   tvaya   ekagrena   cetasa    chrutam    kaccit   =   whatever  I told :  did  you  heard  with  full  attention; te   ajnana-sammohah    pranashtah   kaccit   =    hope  you  are  relieved  from  the  illusion  caused  because  of  ignorance.   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 4.2. : Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Saturday, January 21,  2023. 07:00. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 2. ========================================================================= Man is never said to be, but is always said to become. We do not remain in ourselves continuously even for a few minutes. As the Buddha said in his wondrous message, everything is transitory, everything is momentary, everything is like a link connecting itself with another link. There is a procession of events, and there is nothing existent. If we are part and parcel of this transitional universe, there can be nothing truly existent in us. This is perhaps the reason why the Buddhist philosophers denied that there is such a thing as the self, by which we have to understand the transitional self, the empirical self which we regard ourselves to be in our poor understanding of the nature of things. We regard ourselves as a psychophysical complex—the body and the m

Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-18, Slokam - 71.

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========================================================================= Thursday, January 19, 2023. 06:30.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam. Slokam-71. ========================================================================= Very important slokam Read carefully and  understand  well. ========================================================================= Slokam-71.  with Translation : "sraddhavananasuyasca  srnuyadapi    yo   narah, sopi  muktah  subhan   lokan   prapnuyat  punyakarmanam." "And one who listens with faith and without envy becomes free from sinful reaction and attains to the planets where the pious dwell."  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : sraddhavan   =   one  who  has  sraddha  ( faithful  one  ); anasuyah   ca   =   and  not  envious; yah   narah   =    who,  the  man; srnuyat   api  =  does  heat  atleast; sah   api    muktah   =   he