Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

Chinmaya Mission : On the 30th of March 2023 several centres of Chinmaya Mission celebrated Shri Ram Navami with devotional fervour worldwide.  Some centres celebrated with day with special pujas Shri Rama Janma and others with Sita Rama Kalyanam. Devotees gathered at their respective centers to offer their prayers and seek the blessings of Lord Rama. ========================================================================= Saturday, April 01, 2023. 08:30. How the Writing Began : ======================================================================== Episode 10 : Draupadi’s Swayamwara : The Pandavas were on the move again. Soon they came to know of a Swayamwara at which the daughter of Drupada, Draupadi by name, was to be given in marriage. They knew Drupada as their close ally, so they were very keen to go and attend this Swayamwara. Drupada was the King of Panchal Disha. They joined the procession of Princes who were hopeful of winning the hand of Draupadi, a beautiful and very ...

Swami Udit Chaithanyaji : ശ്രീരാമ നവമീ : ബുദ്ധ ജന്മഭൂമി ലുംബിനിയിൽ .  ജന്മവും ജീവിതവും കൊണ്ട് ചരിത്രം സൃഷ്ടിച്ചവരാണ് ഭാരതത്തിലെ മഹാത്മാക്കൾ .  500 നും 600 BCE യിൽ ജനിച്ച ബുദ്ധൻ ഇന്നും വിശ്വ ഗുരുവായി വിരാജിക്കുന്നു.  ഭാരത ആദ്ധ്യാത്മിക ചരിത്രം പഠിക്കാത്ത ഏതു വിദ്യാഭ്യാസവും കേവലം information മാത്രമാണ് മനസിന്റെ Transformation സംഭവിക്കാൻ    രാമ , കൃഷ്ണ , ബുദ്ധ തുടങ്ങീ ഗുരു പരമ്പരകളുടെ ചരിതവും ചരിത്രവും പഠിക്കണം . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Sri Rama Navami  :  Buddha Birthplace Lumbini.  The great souls of India are those who created history with birth and life.  The Buddha who was born in 500 and 600 BCE still stands as a universal teacher.  Any education without Indian spiritual history is just information.  For the transformation of the mind, one must learn the history and history of Guru series like Rama, Krishna, Buddha etc. ====...

======================================================================= Thursday, March 30,  2023. 08:00. Chapter 7: The Nature of Right Understanding - 5. ======================================================================== We have also noted that rights follow duties automatically. To ask for rights would be redundant in the context of things, because the privileges of the individual are necessary results that follow from the correct performance of duties, and we are anxious about our rights on account of the incorrectness of the performance of duty—a selfishness that creeps into its so-called performance, wherein placed the individual ceases to be performing duty really. The value of the performance in the form of duty lies in the extent of the unselfishness that is behind it, the impersonality of the ground on which it is rooted. The larger the self that performs the action, the greater is the unselfishness behind the action. What we call the selfishness of an individual is...

========================================================================= Tuesday, March 28, 2023. 08:30. How the Writing Began: ========================================================================= Episode 9: The Pandavas Enjoy Some Peace! After their well-executed escape from the “wax-palace”, the Pandavas sought shelter among the Brahmanas who lived in the forest. As far as the country was concerned they were burnt to death. That message went around like wild fire. Even the forest dwellers got the news. Bhishma was wild with fury when he heard of what had taken place. The Pandavas found a poor Brahmin family with whom they sought shelter. But how do five lions live incognito in the dwellings of mice! It was Bhima’s duty to go for Bhiksha daily for the Pandavas. He had such a huge appetite that it was hard for him to get sufficient food. He would eat one half, and give the other half to his mother and brothers! One day Bhima went to a home for Bhiksha. The lady was weeping. Her h...

========================================================================= Monday, March 27, 2023. 07:30. Chapter 3: Samkhya – Right Understanding-3. ========================================================================= Now, without going in large details of everything that is told us in the second chapter, I will take your mind to the true meaning of this samkhya, which perhaps was in the mind of Sri Krishna when he used this word for rectifying the erroneous thinking of Arjuna. "What do you mean by this right understanding? I cannot know what you are speaking," cried out Arjuna at the beginning of the third chapter. "You have confused me completely by telling so many things, nothing of which is clear to me." Here is a troubled mind speaking once again, at the very beginning of the commencement of the third chapter. "Is my relationship to the world a total unity, in which case I have to do nothing? Or, is it total separation, in which case also I have to do...

======================================================================== Sunday, March 26,  2023. 08:20. Chapter 7: The Nature of Right Understanding - 4. ========================================================================= The fruit, the result, the consequence of an action is decided by factors beyond the comprehension of the human individual and, therefore, to expect a particular fruit would be the height of ignorance on the part of any person. We suffer because we expect a particular consequence to follow from a set of actions that we perform, and those results we expect do not follow on account of the simple reason that there are other conditions to be fulfilled for the production of the result than merely the initiative taken by the so-called agent of action. I as an agent, the so-called initiator of the action, may be one of the factors. Yes, accepted. But I am not the only factor, and to consider myself as the sole conditioning principle behind the production of the re...

AT PRESENT WE LIVE IN KALIYUGAM ========================================================================= Friday, March 24, 2023. 07:30. How the Writing Began : ========================================================================= Episode 8: The “Wax Palace” ========================================================================= The Mahabharata characters, as we have seen, are intensely complex. Good is interwoven with the bad, in every character. What is the difference then between the  Kauravas and the Pandavas? It was not Weakness; they both had that. It was Wickedness. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Kauravas, apart from their human weaknesses were at core very wicked. There  was undeniable vulgarity about their ways; they had no respect for righteousness, fair play,  justice, common decency, and so on. They could be as vile as demons are. The Pandavas on  the ot...

========================================================================= Thursday, March 23, 2023. 06:30. Chapter 3: Samkhya – Right Understanding-2. ========================================================================= You may have to remember what I told you last time; I need not repeat it once again. The individuality, the so-called 'me', is the subjective side that has arisen as a result of the split of the cosmic ahamkara – these terms you may remember for purpose of understanding what is going to follow further on. A cosmic self-consciousness is called ahamkara – not the ahamkara or the ego of man, but an impersonal metaphysical reality, which is the "I Am What I Am" of mysticism and religion that manifested itself, as it were, as the objective universe of perception and the subjective individuality which are the jivas, in the Sanskrit language. That which beholds the world as something outside is the jiva or the individual; it may be human or even superhum...