Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

===================================================================================== Wednesday 17, September 2024, 06:30. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 8: The Stages of Yoga-8. Swami Krishnananda Post-50. ===================================================================================== Sparsan krtva bahir bahyams cakshus caivāntare bhruvoh:  concentrating your mind in this manner. Sometimes it is said that you can concentrate on the centre of the eyebrows. This verse also refers to that.  Cakshus caivantare bhruvoh:  The middle of the eyebrows can be regarded as the point of concentration. It is not that everyone should concentrate only in this way. This is one way among many other possible ways. One of the reasons for the efficacy of concentration in this manner on the centre of the eyebrows is psychologically, mystically, from an occult point of view, it is said that the point between the eyebrows is the centre of the mind in waking consciousness. The mind is supposed to

======================================================================================== Monday 16, September, 2024, 05:59. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : Chapter 7: Can War Ever be Justified? - 7. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Now, this is a human question which was humanly answered because we are always faced with some counter-correlative of a position whenever an issue is raised. Every issue has a counter issue. You cannot have an absolute issue in this world, and you do not know how to correlate these two sides of an issue where two sides are always there for every issue. When there are two sides of an issue, which side are you going to take? And how do you know which is the right side? The question of the Bhagavadgita is: How do you know what is right? I will close by quoting an interesting suggestion made by an

======================================================================================= Sunday 15, September 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita's Message of Knowledge and Action: 1.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) ======================================================================================= In the history of the culture of the world, the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita may be regarded as the central spiritual message to mankind. These two gospels of the spiritual ideal offset each other, as it were; they give us the art of life in consonance with the eternal on the one hand, and in consonance with the temporal on the other. The problem of the human being is principally one of reconciliation between the eternal and the temporal or, to put it in modern terms, bringing about a harmony between the religious ideal and the secular call of duty. This has been an age-old problem, a question that has never been adequately answered. And the Upanis

======================================================================================= Saturday 14, September 2024, 05:45. Article Scripture The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 8. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on October 14, 1984) ======================================================================================== But then Sri Krishna gives a masterly stroke, appearing to tell us the easiest thing while he is actually telling us the most difficult thing. And what is that?  Athaitad apy asaktosi kartum madyogam asritah,  sarvakarmaphalatyagam tatah kuru yatatmavan (BG 12.11):  “Even this you find difficult. All right, do what you like, but expect not the fruit of what you do.” Now, we may think that this way is very easy, but no one does anything without some purpose, and that purpose becomes the fruit which we are desiring. There is no action without a fruit that is tagged onto it as a future possibility. So karma yoga may sometimes look like the easiest of yoga

Chinmaya Mission Ahmedabad: Glimpses of Evening puja & Ganapati Atharvashirsh parayana 🙏 Join us everyday at 6.30 pm. Ganpati Bappa Morya 🥳🤩 ======================================================================================= Friday 13,  September 2024, 06:55. Article Scriptures Introduction to the Bhagavadgita: Part 2. POST-8. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on March 17th, 1974) ========================================================================================== So when we study the Bhagavadgita, as I tried to point out last time, we have to be very broadminded and try as far as possible to dive into the many aspects which it seems to touch. We cannot follow the commentators or the doctrinaires or any kind of cult or creed. We cannot lean upon any type of philosophy or metaphysical preconception that may be in our minds, because as far as one can dispassionately see through the epic of the Mahabharata and the gospel of the Gita, it appears that the gospel of the epic and th

Swami Chinmayananda   How to forgive and move on? ==================================================================================== Thursday 12, September 2024. 06:30. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam:61. The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Swami Mukundananda. ==================================================================================== Slogam - 61: "Tani sarvani sanyamya yukta asita mat-parah vashe hi yasyendriyani tasya prajna pratishthita." ==================================================================================== tani—them;  sarvani—all;  sanyamya—subduing;  yuktah—united;  asita—seated;  mat-parah—toward me (Shree Krishna);  vashe—control;  hi—certainly;  yasya—whose;  indriyani—senses;  tasya—their;  prajaā—perfect knowledge;  pratishthita—is fixed; ===================================================================================== Translation: BG 2.61:  "They are established in perfect knowledge, who subdue their senses and keep t

===================================================================================== Wednesday 11, September 2024, 06:50. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 8: The Stages of Yoga-7. Swami Krishnananda Post-49. ===================================================================================== The process of this practice of Yoga is again briefly described in the Fifth Chapter, which is the cue, as it were, to the further exposition in the Sixth Chapter.  Sparsan krtva bahir bahyams cakshus caivantare bhruvoh,  pranapanau samau krtva nasabhyantaracarinau (Gita 5.27);  yatendriyamanobuddhirmunir mokshaparayayah,  vigatecchabhayakrodho yah sada mukta eva sah (Gita 5.28). Two slogas will tell you briefly what Yoga is. First of all, you have to shut out all the entry of external consciousness into your meditational mood. This is done by what is called pratyahara technique. The contacts of the senses with externality have to gradually be diminished in their intensity, which you should d