Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

===================================================================================================== Friday 28, February 2025, 11:00. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India:  Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================ Preface: There have been written several histories of religion and philosophy and it is not my intention to present here another chronicle along similar lines; for the task that I have taken upon myself is a different one. My purpose has been to suggest a proper method of the interpretation of values and a correct approach to the study of the religion and philosophy of India, which I regard not only as the right thing to do, but also essential to instil into the minds of students that perspective of life which can be safely called comprehensive and tolerant, rather than merely add some more information to the existing histories on the subject. It is...

  =============================================================================================== Thursday 27, February 2025, 10:45. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals: 1.1 Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================ Publishers' Note to the Third Edition: As time passes, contexts change and the relevance of a book written many years ago gains new significance. So it is with The Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals. In this 21st century, as people have fully merged into consumerism, the intention and drive behind celebrating festivals has completely been erased, making them yet another occasion for celebration in the secular sense, an occasion to indulge in more clothes, more food, more adornments, filling the moment which was intended for spiritual ascent with noise and material—both antithetical to the original intention. This book is intended for anyone who wants to go deeper i...

================================================================================================= Wednesday 26, February 2025, 10:30. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Heritage of Indian Culture: 1.1 -  Chapter 1: The Vision of India-1. Swami Krishnananda ================================================================================================ We are here to consider some of the general features of our life which direct and decide our human relationships, and consequently, the solidarity of mankind. Human relation is the primary consideration in the organisations of the world which go by the name of 'nations' or 'governments', or even lesser bodies than these. We have come to learn through practical experience that our daily needs in life are social, and our conduct is also related to this. In academies and universities this peculiar relation among people is called 'Humanities', which is a deep subject that covers a vast range of studies into the psychology ...

  ===================================================================================================== Tuesday 25, February 2025, 12:30. Canons of a Perfect Life: 1.  Swami Krishnananda Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita ========================================================================================== 1.Be Bold and Not Cowardly. The Blessed Lord said: Whence is this perilous strait come upon thee, this dejection which is unworthy of you, disgraceful, and which will close the gates of heaven upon you, O Arjuna? (II.2) Yield not to impotence, O Arjuna, son of Pritha. It does not befit thee. Cast off this mean weakness of the heart! Stand Up, O scorcher of the foes! (II.3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.Life and Death Mean the Same Thing Thou hast grieved for those that should not be grieved for, yet thou speakest words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither fo...

  ===================================================================================================== Monday 24, February 2025, 11:30. Article  Scriptures Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 1.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 24th, 1973) ============================================================================================ Human perception causes the kind of knowledge which takes things in their isolated and disconnected capacity, on account of which there is attraction and repulsion for them. The philosophy of this sort of perception is given in the Bhagavadgita:  Yat tu kṛtsnavad ekasmin karye saktam ahaitukam,  atattvārthavad alpaṁ ca tat tāmasam udāhṛtam (BG 18.22). The Bhagavadgita regards this sort of knowledge as the lowest type of knowledge. That kind of knowledge which regards things in their individual capacity alone and takes the part for the whole, mistaking each entity for a complete substantiality and truth and thus g...

  ========================================================================================================== Sunday 3, February 2025, 09:15. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita: A Synthesis of Thought and Action: 1. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) ========================================================================== The culture of mankind may be said to have reached its zenith in the thoughts of the Upanishads, wherein we have an exposition of the quintessential essence of all values that humanity has been seeking through the passage of history. In this groundwork of human culture, we have the perennial inspiration of the soul of man, the cry of the deepest in the human individual, the raptures of what may be regarded as the most valuable part of human nature. Such is the meaning hidden behind the gospel of the Upanishads, which soar into the empyrean of the superhuman and the meta-empirical, rising to levels of such ecstatic heights almost inaccessible to ...

================================================================================================ Saturday,  22 February 2025, 11:00. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity :  (The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita): 1.1. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================ Chapter 1: Introduction-1. We are assembling here to form a system of what we may call a refreshing of ourselves in the art of thinking along the lines which may lead us to a satisfaction that we have lived our life properly, because one day the earthly life comes to an end and we are likely to enter into a field of a new way of living, for which we have to be prepared. The possibility of entering into that new field is not necessarily a distant event, and no one knows the nature of one's tomorrow. Hence, it is incumbent on every one of us to be prepared, at every moment almost, to receive the call of life, we may call it the call of God...