Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  =================================================================================== Monday 14, April 2025, 12:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavad-Gita to Humanity:  (The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavad-Gita): 1.4 1.Introduction -4. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================== In a case that is brought before the court, for instance, the contending parties always hold that they are right. Each party argues the righteousness of the cause or the point that they make out, and both are right. This is what they are emphasising. Each party says, “I am right.” Now, if both are right, they cannot differ; but in their conception of the rectitude of their behaviour, they do differ. So the difference has to be bridged by a cementing link, which is the judicial pronouncement. Such a situation arose in humanity when the golden age descended into the denser form of human thought, when such recognition and appreciation of one in...

  ===================================================================================================== Sunday 13, April  2025, 13:15. Article Scriptures The Rasa Panchadhyayi of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana:  Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on April 28, 1985) ====================================================================================================== The Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana is said to be the concluding writing of Bhagavan Sri Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa, who is renowned as the original classifier of the Vedas into their present recensions, due to which he goes by the name of Veda Vyasa. He is also the author of the Mahabharata, the great epic with its heroic and didactic poems, picturing before us the entire culture of not only a nation but, we may say, of entire humanity. In the commencing chapters of the Srimad Bhagavata we are told that one day Vyasa, the great master, a sage par excellence, was seated in a pensive mood in an ashrama called Shamyaprasa o...

========================================================================================================== Saturday 12, April 2025, 11:25. Article Scriptures Hinduism and the Vedanta 3. Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================= III Advaita Vedanta does not naively say that Brahman is real or that the world of dualities is unreal. To attribute this sort of statement to the system would be something like calling the dog a bad name in order to hang it. The sense in which the doctrine asserts the absoluteness of Brahman would also explain the sense in which its relation to the world of experience is to be understood. My feeling is, this doubt arises due to a superficial reading of the philosophical problem involved, just either by hearsay or reading some titbits here and there, without going into the profundities of the subject. The Advaita Vedanta does not hang on Sruti alone, though it has no reason to doubt the ...

================================================================================================================================ Friday 11, April 2025, 10:30. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita- 2-4.   Chapter 2: The Battlefield of Life -4. Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================================================== There is an integration of the psychic structure as well as the physical body. This is the dharma, the law which organises things. Law is a name that we give to the system which organises bodies into a completeness or a meaningful wholeness, instead of their being thrown as scattered particulars or a meaningless chaos. Dharma is law; we may also call it justice. That which is in consonance with the system of the universe is the justice of the universe, and the way in which this justice operates in terms of the various particularities is the law. There is activity, there ...

  ===================================================================================================================== Thursday 10, April 2025, 10:50. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 2.3. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 3. Swami Krishnananda.  ===================================================================================================================== So every one of us is a cosmic atom, and every thought, every idea and every impulse that arises in our mind has the power of the ocean of the Supreme Being, whose will works as the seed of the manifestation of this tree of life. We can appreciate to some extent how wondrous we all are, each one of us. We are not ordinary men, women, children, officers, subordinates, clerks—nothing of the kind. This is an illusion that is before our eyes. Unfortunately, we are content with being individuals in a family, citizens of a country, human beings on this Earth, masters and servants, wealthy and poor. All these ar...

=================================================================================================== Wednesday 09, April 2025, 11:00. 2.2   ARJUNA ON THE DEFENSIVE  (Slogas 4-10,   7 No.) Slogam - 9: “I Will Not Fight”  Swami  Advayananda. ====================================================================================================== Slogam - 9: “I Will Not Fight”:  Sanjaya Uvaacha: =  Sanjaya said:  1  Evam uktvaa Hrisheekesham =  Having spoken thus to Hrishikesha (Krishna),  2  Gudakeshah parantapah; =  the “Conqueror of sleep” or “Destroyer of foes”  3  na yotsya iti Govindam  = said to Govinda thus: “I will not fight!”  4  uktvaa tooshneem babhoova ha. =  Saying this, he became silent ====================================================================================================== Slogam-10. “Arjuna Chaitanya” is Born:  5  Tam uvaacha Hrisheekeshah = To him (...

===================================================================================================== Tuesday 08, April 2025. 11:45. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 10. Swami Mukundananda. ===================================================================================================== Slokam-10: "saha-yajnah prajah srishtva purovacha prajapatih anena prasavishyadhvam esha vo ’stvishta-kama-dhuk." ======================================================================================================= saha—along with;  yajñāḥ—sacrifices;  prajāḥ—humankind;  sṛiṣhṭvā—created;  purā—in beginning;  uvācha—said;  prajā-patiḥ—Brahma;  anena—by this;  prasaviṣhyadhvam—increase prosperity;  eṣhaḥ—these;  vaḥ—your;  astu—shall be;  iṣhṭa-kāma-dhuk—bestower of all wishes. =================================================================================================================== Translation:...

============================================================================================================================================= Monday 07, April 2025, 10:40. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 11: Beholding God as He Beholds Himself - 2. Swami Krishnananda Post-68. ============================================================================================================================================== Suppose you die in this condition with unfulfilled desires buried inside like a thick cloud. They will germinate into action under different conditions altogether, and that would be your future fate. As seeds in barren ground look dead because there is no water and manure but can suddenly come alive, become tendrils and plants when rain falls on them, so these karmas germinate into action. Not a single desire of yours will go unfulfilled – if not today, then tomorrow, or after any amount of time. Time is endless, space is vast; therefore, there is infinite possibility ...