Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================================= Thursday 07, November 2024, 06:20. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita's Message of Knowledge and Action: 8.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) ======================================================================================= So, the gospel of the Bhagavadgita clinches the matter by telling us in its clear-cut language that ignorance of the law is no excuse. “Oh, I did not know it. I am sorry.” We should not say that. If we are sorry, well, we have to bear the fruit of it. We touch the live wire and say, “I am sorry; I didn't know it is a live wire.” Well, all right, if we didn't know it is a live wire, now we know it. To reiterate the gospel of the Bhagavadgita, knowledge, sankhya, should precede yoga, action. The reaction of good and bad does not impinge upon the individual when there is rootedness of the individual in buddhi yoga, or the yoga of understanding.

=========================================================================================== Wednesday 06, November 2024, 06:20. Article Scripture Stabilising the Mind in God: 6. The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on June 26, 1983) =========================================================================================== This is something hard indeed for us. Even this is difficult. Who can do anything without expecting some reward? What for is anything if nothing is going to come out of it? We are businesspeople, root and branch. We cannot think in any other way. The business attitude is the expectation of something from something. Something has to follow from something; otherwise, why should we do something? This attitude is not applicable to God Almighty, as He is not a commercial magnate. He is a different thing altogether. So, while it is made out here that this is perhaps the easiest way in comparison with the other three methods already stated, o

========================================================================================= Tuesday 05, November 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures The Importance of the Bhagavadgita - 5. Swami Krishnananda (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982.) ========================================================================================== The Bhagavadgita, in the language it is written today, is not merely an instrument of communicating divine knowledge to us, but it is divine grace descending upon us. It is holy, supremely sanctified. The vibrations that the Bhagavadgita recitations set up are said to be in tune with, en rapport with, the vibrations which emanated from the mind of Vyasa himself, or perhaps the vibrations of the Supreme Being, the Viratsvarupa, God Himself, when he dictated this great gospel to Lord Ganesha. Sarva sastra mayi gita: All the sciences of human life are explained in some way, in some verse, in some place or some context or the other of the Bhagavadgita

=================================================================================== Monday 04, November 2024. 06:10. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam:68. The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Swami Mukundananda. ===================================================================================== Slogam-68: "Tasmad yasya maha-baho nigrihitani sarvashah indriyanindriyarthebhyas tasya prajna pratishthita." ==================================================================================== tasmad—therefore;  yasya—whose;  maha-baho—mighty-armed one;  nigrihitani—restrained;  sarvashau—completely;  indriyani—senses;  indriya-arthebhyah—from sense objects;  tasya—of that person;  prajna—transcendental knowledge;  pratishthita—remains fixed. ======================================================================================== Translation: BG 2.68:  "Therefore, one who has restrained the senses from their objects, O mighty armed Arjun, is firmly established in tra

Belur Math Janmashtami Day ===================================================================================== Sunday 03, November 2024, 06:40. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 9: The Yoga of Meditation - 5. Swami Krishnananda Post-55. ===================================================================================== Everyone has to judge oneself. A check-up of personality is to be maintained with a spiritual diary. It is necessary to check up: “How far have I progressed? Are there any obstacles which are emotionally disturbing me, or am I intellectually in a state of doubt?” Intellectual restlessness and emotional tension is instinctive if there are frustrations of any kind. Do you want something that you cannot get, or are you getting something that you do not want? These are the causes of difficulties. Many of the difficulties of a spiritual seeker will not be visible in the beginning. You may look as though everything is all right, that nothing is wrong. You sit for medita