Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ================================================================================================= Friday 31, January 2025. 09:40. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 6. Swami Mukundananda. =================================================================================== Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 6. "Those who restrain the external organs of action, while continuing to dwell on sense objects in the mind, certainly delude themselves and are to be called hypocrites." ================================================================================== Slogam-6:  "karmendriyani sanyamya ya aste manasa smaran indriyarthan vimudhatma mithyacharah sa uchyate:. ======================================================================================= karma-indriyani—organs of action;  sanyamya—restrain;  yah—who;  aste—remain;  manasa—in the mind;  smaran—to remember;  indriya-arthan—sense objects; ...

=========================================================================================== Thursday 30, January 2025, 08:00. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 10: The Hidden Meaning of the Seventh Chapter of the Gita-5 Swami Krishnananda Post-64. ======================================================================================== The objectives of life are fourfold in number – dharma, artha, kama, moksha, as they are called. One who is asking for perfection in the acquisition of these great values of life should be considered as superior even to the one who asks for knowledge in a general sense. Material, emotional and ethical values consummating in the wisdom of the Supreme Being constitute the four aims of life. They are called purushartha. So artha here may also mean purushartha; in that sense, the gradation of ascent is maintained. Thus, the third category of devotees is this, the artharthi. The first is artha, the second is jijnasu, the third is artharthi. But the highest,...

  ================================================================================================ Tuesday 28, January 2025, 09:00. Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 2-2. Discourse 2: The First Chapter – Visada Yoga, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit-2. Swami Krishnananda ================================================================================ When the spiritual seeker passes some years in self-abnegation, a determined spirit arises: “I have risen above all the desires of the world. I have had enough of all things. I am now here to fight the battle of life, to transcend the world, to face it, to overcome it, and then to go beyond it.” The Pandavas facing the Kauravas is like a spiritual seeker facing the whole world. The objective sentiments are represented by the Kauravas, and the subjective sentiments are represented by the Pandavas. It is difficult for the subject to face the object entirely on the assumption that it is an alien element that is outside, because the w...

====================================================================================================== Monday 27, January 2025, 10:15. The Moksha Gita: by Swami Sivananda: Commentary: 1.1. Chapter 2: The Nature of Brahman-1 Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== 1, 2.  The Guru said: Salutation to Sat-Chit-Ananda Para-Brahman, that glorious first Preceptor, who is self-luminous, eternal indivisible, pure, spotless, desireless, attributeless, timeless, spaceless, changeless, beginningless and endless. The greatest and the First Preceptor is the Ocean of Satchidananda. It is the Inner Reality or the central Being of all. The promptings of the innermost Light of the Self alone are responsible for the spiritual progress of the individual. Even seeking a Preceptor will be impossible if the Permanent Self within does not throw the discriminative Consciousness upon the individual or the Jiva. The proper grasping of the truth...

========================================================================================= Sunday 26, January 2025, 09:20. Article Srimad Bhagavad Gita, The Essence of Dharma: 5. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 11th, 1973) =================================================================================== Now I am coming to another aspect of this question which is very intimately connected with the earlier one. The universe is a continuum, an undivided being, according to physical discovery. So is consciousness. Consciousness is a continuity. It is an undivided flow, as it were. It should not be called a flow, but for want of a better word I will call it a flow because it is permeating and pervading every bit of existence. But it does not pervade another object like water permeating cloth in a bucket of water. Inasmuch as consciousness is undivided, there cannot be externality to it. Even a universe cannot exist outside it, but the universe exists. We are seeing it. So we have tw...

  ================================================================================= Saturday 25, January 2025, 10:00. Article Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Language of the Bhagavadgita: 5.  Swami Krishnananda. (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982) ============================================================================== Now darshanam is necessary. ” Manyase yadi tac chakyam maya drastum iti prabho, yogesvara tato me tvam darsayatmanam avyayam (B.G. 11.4): “O Lord, if you feel I am fit for this vision, deign, condescend to grant me this vision.” The vision was granted. The whole sky was lit up with light, and thousands of suns arose, as it were, said the poet. What else can be said? Thousands of suns are nobodies before this light, but we have to say something. What else can we say? We are like frogs in a well and the ocean is so big, but whatever we say, it cannot be equal to the actual ocean. So we may say it is like thousands of suns or millions of suns, but tha...

=============================================================================================== F riday 24, January 2025, 09:10. Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita- 5.   Chapter 1: The Universal Scope of the Bhagavadgita-5. Swami Krishnananda ============================================================================= One can imagine with this introduction the widespread comprehensiveness of the gospel, the teachings of the Bhagavadgita. It leaves nothing unsaid, and the language in which this message is conveyed has behind it an incomprehensible secret. The deeper we go within ourselves, the deeper is the meaning we will discover in it. If our outer personality reads the Gita, we will see only the outer feature of its message. If we study it as a linguist, as a Sanskritist or an academician, we will see only that aspect, a story narrated which appeals to our feelings and emotions, or to our reason. If we read it as a psychologist, we will find there an u...