Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ======================================================================================================= Wednesday 08, January 2025, 12:20. Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 3. Discourse 1: The Colophon of the Bhagavadgita-3. Swami Krishnananda =================================================================================== Who can encounter the Absolute? Who can talk with God, unless we are flaming and blazing forth in the purity of our spirit as God Himself is? Unless we have transcended the limitations of flesh and bone and the limitations of the psyche which are conditioned socially, politically, etc., unless we are able to lift our consciousness above these limitations, how will we converse with God? Who can dare approach God, when there is no communicating medium between ourselves and God? The wavelength of our individuality and the wavelength of God are in such contrast that there is no mingling of these two factors. The radio station of God is sending messages. We are una...

  ==================================================================================================== Tuesday 07, January 2025, 15:00. The Moksha Gita: by Swami Sivananda: Commentary: 2.1. Chapter 1: The Search for Truth -1 Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================= Chapter 1: The Search for Truth 01_01 1, 2. The disciple said: O Merciful Master! I bow to thee. I have fallen into the dreadful ocean of birth and death. I am afflicted with the three kinds of Taapas. Save me, O Lord. Teach me, how I should cross this ocean of Samsara. The disciple approaches the Guru. This is the starting point of Brahmavidya. The aspirant after equipping himself with the Sadhana-Chatushtaya, i.e., the ethical discipline necessary for the purification of the heart before entering into the field of Brahmavidya proper or the Science of the Ultimate Reality, goes to the Spiritual Teacher for higher Knowledge. The Mundaka Upanishad sa...

  ====================================================================================================== Monday 06, January 2025, 10:25. Article Srimad Bhagavad Gita, The Essence of Dharma: 3. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 11th, 1973) ========================================================================================= Now, the attitude of connecting one person with another person is not samanya dharma, or an ultimately justifiable attitude. I am not an instrument of your pleasure in any manner whatsoever; therefore, you cannot regard yourself as a purpose, and myself as an instrument towards the fulfilment of that purpose. So the moralist's canon is that that attitude alone can be regarded as justifiable, good and moral or ethical which regards a thing as an end in itself, and not as a means to something else. It is true that we use things as a means, but towards a higher end. When you use a particular person or a thing as a means to a certain fulfilment, even that is...

  =========================================================================================== Sunday 05, January 2025, 11:40. Article Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Language of the Bhagavadgita: 3.  Swami Krishnananda. (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982) ============================================================================================ The difficulty of Arjuna at the commencement of the war has been rightly considered as similar to, or rather identical with, the astonishing problem facing a spiritual seeker in his arduous struggle to move towards God and His realisation. Where to demarcate this point of the difference between the ordinary conversation that might have taken place between Sri Krishna and Arjuna, and where it overcame this limit, we cannot say. All this is beyond us. However, it is certain that it grew into terrible intensity as it reached the Ninth or the Tenth Chapter perhaps, and it burst all boundaries when it reached the Eleventh. When the...

====================================================================================================== Saturday 04, January 2025, 11:00. Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita- 3   Chapter 1: The Universal Scope of the Bhagavadgita-3. Swami Krishnananda ====================================================================================== The Bhagavadgita is the knowledge of the Absolute, Brahmavidya, which is mentioned at the end of each chapter. It is also called an Upanishad—something very strange to normal sense. It is an esoteric teaching, plumbing the depths of the essentiality of things behind the veneer of encrustations in the shape of names and forms. An Upanishad is a secret teaching. It is secret because it has concern with that which cannot be seen with the eyes. It is not related to appearances. The names and forms of the world are not the subject of the Upanishad. Its relationship is with that which is behind the names and forms. As its connectio...

  ========================================================================================= Friday 03, January 2025, 11:55. Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 1.4 Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life-4. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================= We know very well that our Earthly life can come to an end at any moment, but we never take it very seriously. We can take it seriously if it goes so deeply into our hearts that we will not be able to breathe even for a few seconds. Something in us overpowers this instinct of the awareness of the impending discontinuity of life, and we are instinctively compelled to brush aside this immanent catastrophe of what we call death that may descend upon us at any moment of time. While there is on one side the instinct of the consciousness of death and destruction, there is also another kind of instinct which keeps us completely forgetful of this phenomenon of life....

=========================================================================================================== Thursday 02, January 2025, 13:25. BHAGAVAD GEETA -  Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas)  “Yoga of the SUPREME SELF”  Swami  Advayananda. =======================================================================================  S logam- 2:  The Lord Strongly Disapproves:  Shree Bhagavaan Uvaacha:= The Blessed Lord said:  1  Kutah tvaa kashmalam idam = Whence has this dejection of yours,  2  vishame sam-upasthitam; = his perilous condition, come upon thee?  3  anaarya jushtam asvargyam = It is un-Aryan-like, heaven-excluding,  4 akeertikaram Arjuna. = and disgraceful, O Arjuna.  ======================================================================================= The most significant part of this verse is Sri Krishna’s direct, uncompromising disapproval of Arjuna’s state of mind. 1-2  The opening words of the Lor...