A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 39 - Swami Krishnananda.

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Tuesday 02, Ju;y 2024, 06:40.

Chapter 7: The Entry of the Absolute into the Relative - 8.

Post-39.

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Chinmaya Mission: 

3 June 2024, a recent tornado tore through the town of Tongaat on the north coast of Kwazulu Natal, causing widespread destruction of various residential suburbs, including homes and other infrastructure. 

Chinmaya Mission South Africa's ashram in Chatsworth, located approximately 60 kilometers from Tongaat, became a drop-off point for items donated by the nearby community to provide assistance and relief to the affected residents of Tongaat.

The Nourish to Flourish team contributed to the disaster relief effort and personally delivered all the hampers to the Vishwaroop Temple in Tongaat on Sunday, 9 June 2024. 

In total, 315 hot meals were prepared and delivered by the N2F volunteers. 

Bramacharini Kaushiki, along with other dedicated N2F volunteers, attended the event. 

The recipients expressed deep gratitude to Chinmaya Mission and especially to the N2F team for their support.

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And something else came and told Buddha, “Useless man, get up.” There was a hailstorm and big demon-like faces arose and told him, “Now you are on the last day of your life. Useless man, get up from this place. What are you thinking? All this world is wonderful. You have a wrong notion. You have an illusory perception that there is something beyond this. There is no 'beyond'. This is everything. You are a foolish man. Get up!” Buddha would not listen to that advice either. Then it said, “You are a master already. You have already attained what you want to attain. Get up! Work for the world.” There are people who sometimes think they have already attained the goal, and the only thing left is to serve and uplift humanity, and bring heaven to the earth. This is also a temptation.

All these stages one has to pass through. Difficulties of this kind will harass you and you will say, “I don't know. I can't understand all these things. I am drooping. Twenty years of meditation have brought nothing.”

The Fourth Chapter begins with a great consolation to you. God is not so blind as not to understand your predicament. Your complaints are known to Him. Omniscience is the nature of God. Everything is known. Even the movement of a cat in a the jungle, God knows. If a leaf moves, God is aware of it. Does He not know your difficulties? He incarnates Himself as a redemptive God at every crucial moment, if only your heart is for Him.

Again the point comes: to the extent you are united with this adhidaiva prapancha, or the Supreme Transcendant Principle, if you cling to it honestly, the adhidaiva is your support. Go on surrendering yourself to it, and it will communicate your message to the higher cause. Instantaneous action will take place. God incarnating Himself is actually the descent of a higher measure of force of divinity to the level in which you are, to the level in which the crisis has arisen; and timeless being the nature of God, instantaneous also is His action. God does not come tomorrow, because there is no time for God. He does not take time to travel because He is not in space. Infinite power from a spaceless existence will act timelessly, instantaneously, at every crucial moment.

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Slogas:

Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham (Gita 4.7);

 Paritranaya sadhunam vinsaya ca dushkrtam, dharmasamsthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge (Gita 4.8).

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