Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================================= Sunday 01, Sep 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita – A Synthesis of Thought and Action-6.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) ======================================================================================= Now, what is duty? Duty is the obligation that an individual owes to the world outside, and we cannot know what our duty is unless we know what the world is because, as I mentioned in this simple definition of duty, it is an obligation that we owe to the world as a whole. But how do we know what is our obligation to the world if we do not know what the world is? The world is not made up of mountains and rivers. It is not a conglomeration of earth, water, fire, air and ether, sun, moon, stars. The world is a fabric of forces. It is a pattern of energies which work everywhere uniformly both in organic and inorganic substances. We are told today that the univ...

  ======================================================================================= Saturday 31, Aug 2024, 06:50. Article Scripture The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 6. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on October 14, 1984) ======================================================================================== In the Saiva Siddhanta School, especially as is prevalent in southern India, four types of worship are mentioned, and they go by the name of charya, kriya, yoga and jnana. Charya is externalised worship, a service that one can do in a temple, for instance, by collecting flowers from the garden or bhel leaves from the forest, by sweeping the outskirts of the temple, by cleaning the veranda, washing the vessels and other things. But there is an internal type of service which is carried on by people inside the temple, inside the holy place, within the holy of holies. You must have seen in temples that there are people who work outside, and there are also ...

========================================================================================== Friday 30, Aug 2024, 06:40. Article Scriptures Introduction to the Bhagavadgita: Part 2. POST-6. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on March 17th, 1974) ========================================================================================== Avidya, or ignorance, is the mistaking of the transitory for the permanent, the impure for the pure, pain for pleasure, and the not-Self for the Self, as we have a beautiful definition given in the sutra of Patanjali:  anitya asuci dukkha anatmasu nitya suci sukha atma khyatih avidya (Y.S. 2.5).  This is the meaning of ignorance. Ignorance does not necessarily mean the total oblivion of what is there. It is not like being fast asleep. Avidya, or ignorance, is a positive error of a palpable nature, and it is not merely a negativity or an absence of substance. It was not that Dhritarashtra did not know what was right, but he deliberately did what was wrong. ...

========================================================================================== Thursday 29, Aug 2024. 06:30. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam:59. The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Swami Mukundananda. ========================================================================================== Slogam - 59: "vishaya vinivartante niraharasya dehinah rasa-varjam raso ’pyasya param drishtva nivartate." ========================================================================================= vishayah—objects for senses;  vinivartante—restrain;  niraharasya—practicing self restraint;  dehinah—for the embodied;  rasa-varjam—cessation of taste;  rasah—taste;  api—however;  asya—person’s;  param—the Supreme;  drishtva—on realization;  nivartate—ceases to be. ======================================================================================== Translation: BG 2.59:  "Aspirants may restrain the senses from their object...

===================================================================================== Wednesday 28, Aug 2024, 06:40. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 8: The Stages of Yoga-5. Swami Krishnananda Post-47. ===================================================================================== What you have to offer to the Supreme Absolute is Atman, and not anything material. Atman is offered to the Paramatman. The jiva consciousness is dedicated to the Universal Consciousness. You are offered, nobody else. You offer yourself in the altar of the great yajna of Universal Consciousness – brahmarpanah.  This is the greatest dedication that you can give to God. If God asks you, “What will you give me?” you cannot offer God some bananas or sweets because they are not your possessions. Only you are your possession. You have no right over anything in this world except your own self. Not even one needle can be your property, so the offering that you have to make to the Universal Being is onl...

=================================================================================== BHAGAVAD GEETA Chapter - 2 Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas) “Yoga of the SUPREME SELF” Sri Veda Vyasaji ====================================================================================== Monday 26, Aug 2024, 05:41. Discourse 2 | Yoga of the Supreme Self   2.12   THE MAN OF STEADY WISDOM  (Slogas 54-67, 14 No.  Slogam - 63: Q3: Without Matpara – the Fast Descent  Post - 87. ======================================================================================= Slogam - 63: Q3: Without Matpara – the Fast Descent  5  Krodhaat bhavati sam-mohah =  From anger comes delusion;  6  sam-mohaat smriti-vibhrama; =  from delusion comes loss of memory;  7  smriti-bhramshaat buddhi-naashah = from loss of memory,  destruction of discrimination;  8  buddhi-naashaat pranashyati. =  from destruction of discrimination, he Perishes....

======================================================================================= Sunday 25, Aug 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita – A Synthesis of Thought and Action-5.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) ======================================================================================= Now, again we go back to the Upanishads. Why should the rectitude or the otherwise of an action not depend upon the pleasure of the individual or the otherwise? The Upanishads give an answer to it. The nature of existence itself is contrary to holding such an opinion. The structure of all phenomena is of such a character that it will not permit us to hold such an individualistic opinion in respect of any action whatsoever. The universe does not belong to you or to me particularly. It does not belong to anyone. As such, we can say that nothing in this world belongs to us because everything belongs to the universe. It is a part of the world. And as the world...

======================================================================================= Saturday 24, Aug 2024, 06:20. Article Scripture The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 5. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on October 14, 1984) ======================================================================================== The karmas related to God are the various types of affection which we manifest in our devotions in respect of God the Almighty. We have navavidha bhakti, the ninefold method of devotion to God, and the five attitudes called bhavas. These are said to be the indications of the meaning of this particular verse.  "Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smararam pada-sevanam  arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam."  (Bhagavata 7.5.23) is a slogam that occurs in the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuranam.  ====================================================================================== Always listening to the glories of God, and not being interested in l...