Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

Chinmaya Mission:  Chinmaya Organization for Rural Development, Raleigh hosted its annual CORD Colour 5K RUN to raise funds for CORDUSA’s initiatives.  The vibrant event attracted over 150 participants, sponsors, volunteers, and supporters. Attendees enjoyed a lively atmosphere with henna art, face painting, Boba tea served by youth volunteers, delicious food, and upbeat music.  The event successfully fostered community spirit and raised over $20,000 to support CORDUSA’s impactful programs.  We extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed to making this year’s run such a memorable and fun-filled experience, ensuring the success of our cause through their generous participation and enthusiasm. ========================================================================================= Tuesday 01,  October  2024, 07:10. Article Scriptures The Importance of the Bhagavadgita - 1. Swami Krishnananda (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982.) ===...

================================================================================ Monday 30, September 2024. 06:20. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam:64. The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Swami Mukundananda. ================================================================================= Slogam - 64: "Raga-dvesha-viyuktais tu vishayan indriyaish charan atma-vashyair-vidheyatma prasadam adhigachchhati." ================================================================================= raga—attachment;  dvesha—aversion;  viyuktaih—free;  tu—but;  vishayan—objects of the senses;  indriyaih—by the senses;  charan—while using;  atma-vashyaih—controlling one’s mind;  vidheya-atma—one who controls the mind;  prasadam—grace of God;  adhigachchhati—attains. ======================================================================================== Translation: BG 2.64:  "But one who controls the mind, and is free from attachment and...

===================================================================================== Sunday 29, September 2024, 04:50. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 9: The Yoga of Meditation - 2. Swami Krishnananda Post-52. ===================================================================================== The Bhagavadgita says, in one or two slogas, that you have to raise your lower self by the power of the higher Self. You should not be always a physical self, an instinctive self, a desire-filled self, a sensory self or a social self. The Self cannot be so described as something conditioned by other things. The very meaning of Self is unconditionality, indivisibility and self-sufficiency. If the self of yours is inadequate in some way, you cling to certain associations outside, as I mentioned, so that you look like an adequate self. But the Self cannot be made adequate or self-sufficient by any accumulation of external factors. Society, objects of sense, or even the satisfaction of the phy...

======================================================================================= Friday 27, September 2024, 06:40. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita's Message of Knowledge and Action: 3.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) ======================================================================================= One of the difficulties in understanding the gospel of the Bhagavadgita or any such message is that we are expected to think here in an absolutely reoriented fashion. A new educational value is presented to us. One of the things, or perhaps the most important thing that the Bhagavadgita tells us is that we have to think in a new fashion altogether, and the greatest knowledge conceivable is perhaps the art of thinking correctly. Knowledge does not mean the study of Plato or Kant or Sankara or Ramanuja. Knowledge is the system of thinking correctly, and we are masters of not thinking correctly. Why? Because we have been caught up in a muddle of circumst...

===================================================================================== Thursday 26, September 2024, 06:15. Article Scripture Stabilising the Mind in God: 2. The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on June 26, 1983) ===================================================================================== The first sloka, therefore, pitching itself on the ultimate nature of God, which is supreme absoluteness and nonrelative omnipresence, requires us to practise what the Yoga Vasishtha calls brahma abhyasa. The Yoga Vasishtha has a particular name for this practice. It is called brahma abhyasa, and sometimes it is also called atma abhyasa. This verse that comes in the Yoga Vasishtha is repeated verbatim in the Panchadasi by Sage Vidyaranya.  Tat chintanam tat kathanam anyonyam tat prabodhanam, eta deka paratvam ca m vidur budhah (Panchadasi 7.106).  What is brahma abhyasa? The practice of the presence of God is called brahma abhyasa. ...

========================================================================================== Wednesday 25,  September 2024, 06:40. Article Scriptures Introduction to the Bhagavadgita: Part 2. POST-10. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on March 17th, 1974) ========================================================================================== The various stages of the Bhagavadgita gospel in its eighteen chapters are really the eighteen stages of the soul's contemplation on God. It is, therefore, a Brahma-vidya, and not merely a history in the ordinary sense of the term. It is the gospel of God to man. It was not one individual Krishna that spoke to another individual Arjuna. They were the occasions for the delivery of an eternal message for the world as a whole. The Absolute talks to the relative, God speaks to man, the Universal interprets the particular in a right manner, and it is this that the student of yoga also tries to perform in his daily meditations. The yoga meditation, the yog...

================================================================================ Tuesday 24, September 2024. 06:10. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam:63. The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Swami Mukundananda. ============================================================================== Slogam-63: "krodhad bhavati sammohah sammohat smriti-vibhramah smriti-bhranshad buddhi-nasho buddhi-nashat pranashyati." ============================================================================== krodhat—from anger;  bhavati—comes;  sammohah—clouding of judgement;  sammohat—from clouding of judgement;  smriti—memory;  vibhramah—bewilderment;  smriti-bhranshat—from bewilderment of memory;  buddhi-nasah—destruction of intellect;  buddhi-nashat—from destruction of intellect;  pranashyati—one is ruined ============================================================================= Translation: BG 2.63:  "Anger leads to clouding of judgment, whic...