Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ===================================================================================== Tuesday 08, July 2025, 19:40. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 3.3. Discourse: 3. Severing the Root of this Tree of Life:3 Swami Krishnananda.  ===================================================================================== Note: "The Bhagavad Gita discusses the concept of Varnashrama, not as a rigid caste system based on birth, but as a system of social organization based on individual qualities and duties. Krishna explains that the four varnas (Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra) are created based on "guna" (qualities) and "karma" (actions). While the Gita acknowledges the existence of these divisions, it emphasizes that one can attain liberation (Moksha) through fulfilling one's prescribed duties (Swadharma) within their respective varna, regardless of their birth" ================================================================================...

  ========================================================================================== Sunday 06, July 2025, 19:25. The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita: 1.1:  Chapter 1: This Drama of Life - 1. Swami Krishnananda ======================================================================================== Chapter 1: This Drama of Life -1. When you come to a place like this, you have to re-orientate your minds, to a large extent, to an appreciable extent. There is a specific purpose for which you have come here to this Academy, to this Divine Life Society Ashram. To some of you, the purpose of your coming here and attending these classes may be clear; to some, it may be nebulous – not wholly perspicuous. There is something which this Academy is endeavouring to cater to the minds of people like you. This 'something' which this Ashram, this Academy, is trying to furnish you with, is perhaps what you actually need in life. You may be under the impression that there are thousands ...

  ==================================================================================== Saturday 05, July 2025. 20:00. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 17. Slogam-17. Swami Mukundananda. ===================================================================================== Slogam-17: "yas tvatma-ratir eva syad atma-triptash cha manavah atmanyeva cha santushtas tasya karyam na vidyate." =================================================================================== Translation: yaḥ—who;  tu—but;  ātma-ratiḥ—rejoice in the self;  eva—certainly;  syāt—is;  ātma-tṛiptaḥ—self-satisfied;  cha—and;  mānavaḥ—human being;  ātmani—in the self;  eva—certainly;  cha—and;  santuṣhṭaḥ—satisfied;  tasya—his;  kāryam—duty;  na—not;  vidyate—exist ========================================================================================== BG 3.17: Translaion:  "But those who rejoice i...

============================================================================================== Friday 04, July 2025, 19:00. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 2-3. Chapter 2: The Upanishads: 2.The Quest for Reality:3. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================== The doctrine of creation delineated up to this stage is as far as what can be gathered into a systematic whole from the different statements on the subject made in the Upanishads. But this scheme of creation is developed into a further detail of completeness in the Epics and, especially, the Puranas, which we can consider here with benefit, though these developments are not to be seen in the creation theories of the Upanishads. Together with the senses of knowledge and organs of action, and their locations in the body of the individual, there is the creation of their physical counterparts, viz., Ether, Ai...

================================================================================================ Thursday 03, July 2025, 19:30. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita Daily Invocations:  2.The Satarudriya-10. Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================  41.नमो अग्रेवधाय च दौरेवधाय च नमो हन्त्रे च हनीयासे च नमो वृक्षेभ्यो हरिकेशेभ्यो नमस्ताराय॥ namo agrevadhāya ca dūrevadhāya ca namo hantre ca hanīyase ca namo vṛkṣebhyo harikeśebhyo namastārāya. Prostration to Him who destroys enemies in front and who destroys them from behind; prostration to Him who is the Destroyer of things here and the Destroyer of everything in the end; prostration to Him who is in the form of trees filled with green leaves; prostration to Him who is embodied in Om (Pranava). =================================================================================================== 42.नमशंभवे च मयोभवे च नमः शङ्कराय च मयस्कराय च नमः शिवाय च शिवताराय च॥ na...

  Chinmaya Mission: Favorites  · June 28 at 8:34 PM.   Chinmaya Mission Seattle Annual Day was an absolutely wonderful celebration! There was so much to commemorate as the community reflected on a remarkable year filled with growth and learning alongside the cherished CMS family.  The event featured several memorable highlights, including insightful words of wisdom from Swami Ishwarananda and inspiring personal journeys shared by the graduating Balavihar students.  Well-deserved recognition was also given through the Gita Challenge and attendance awards.  A beautiful presentation by the student-led Ahimsa Club captivated the audience, followed by heartfelt appreciation for the dedicated sevaks.  The event concluded with the exciting unveiling of the next steps in the Ashram vision. The CMS community has come a long way and is filled with enthusiasm and anticipation for what the coming year will bring. ===================================================...