Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ======================================================================================= Wednesday 30, April 2025, 11:45. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita: A Synthesis of Thought and Action: 5. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) ====================================================================================== If this is the truth, all your pleasures and pains should be untruth. Therefore, Arjuna, pleasure and pain cannot become the standard of judging the rectitude or otherwise of an action. That would be to base the action on a false foundation. You have to base your action on the concept of duty rather than on the concept of pleasure. Now, what is duty? Duty is the obligation that an individual owes to the world outside, and we cannot know what our duty is unless we know what the world is because, as I mentioned in this simple definition of duty, it is an obligation that we owe to the world as a whole. But how do we know what is our obligation to the wor...

========================================================================================= T uesday 29, April 2025, 12:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavad-Gita to Humanity:  (The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavad-Gita): 1.5 1.Introduction -5. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================== In such a way, we may say there is a final word about the fundamentals of human behaviour and conduct, which norm is laid down in the Bhagavadgita. It is true that the Bhagavadgita does not tell us how we can cook our food, how we can take a bath, or how we can stitch our shirt; but it lays down certain fundamental, basic principles of human conduct under confrontations and difficulties which are the irreconcilable elements in human society. There were dharma sankatas, as we call them. Dharma sankata means a quandary in dharma. 'Quandary' means a difficult situation, where we cannot pass an immediate judgment. Sometimes we are in a ...

======================================================================================= Monday 28, April 2025, 11:00. Article Scriptures The Rasa Panchadhyayi of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana: 2. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on April 28, 1985) ==================================================================================== What distresses people in the world is essentially a lack of affection, love. They do not require other things as much as they require a consideration for what they are and not necessarily for what they need, what they have, and what their external appurtenances are. My love for you is a greater essential for you than all the wealth that I may pour upon you. Many of the distresses of people are caused by a lack of social affection or personal regard, what we call mutual love. Love rules the world. It is not authority that rules. Power does not rule, finally. Though it appears that it is power that executes the magic performances of administration in all the leve...

  ============================================================================================ Sunday 27, April 2025, 11:00. Article Scriptures Catechism of Hinduism: 1.  Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================= Q: When was Hinduism founded? A: The word 'Hinduism' originated due to historical and linguistic circumstances and refers to what more properly be designated as Bharatiya-dharma, or Sanatana-dharma. There is no personal founder for Hinduism. People who follow the faith or religion which goes by the name of Hinduism hold that the foundation of this outlook of life, or way of living, is eternal, since the way of life is an expression of the basic law operating in the universe. In fact, what popularly is known as Hinduism is a practical and ethical manifestation in day-to-day living of what should be considered as the inviolable law of existence, both in its immutable form known as satya and oper...

====================================================================================================== Saturday 26, April 2025, 11:00. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita- 2-4.   Chapter 2: The Battlefield of Life -5. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================================== There should be a strong organising force, a Central Government, to establish a central administration in the cosmos, and, as a consequence thereof, in our own selves and in society. This is to enter into the field of Yoga. We generally argue in terms of human society or human relationship, and not in the light of reason and the higher understanding. We have a poor reason and a sentimental argument to justify our social conditions, and we have not got the understanding or the reason enough to awaken ourselves to the existence of the higher power of dharma, the power of God, the law of the universe. The Bhagavadgita takes ...

  ========================================================================================================= Friday 25, April 2025, 09:50. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 2.4. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 4. Swami Krishnananda.  ========================================================================================================== The tree of life is not like the tree that we see in front of us. Therefore, a magnificent, uncanny, veiled comparison is chalked out in the expression of the verses of the Bhagavadgita here. Adhaś cordhvaṁ prasṛtāstasya (B.G. 15.2); na rūpam asyeha tathopalabhyate (B.G. 15.3): It is there, above and below; it is in all directions everywhere. Because it is everywhere, it cannot have a form. To have a form is to be in some place, and to be everywhere is naturally not to have any form. But the senses carve out the figure of a form as the sculptor carves out a figure from a block of stone. The ink and the canvas have no picturesque ...

  ================================================================================================ Thursday 24, April 2025, 10:00. 2.3   THE GEETA PHILOSOPHY COMMENCES  INTRODUCTION TO THE GEETA TEACHING  Swami  Advayananda. POST-10. ================================================================================================== By Pujya Acharyaji:  THE BHAGAVAD GEETA OCCURS in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata  [Chapters 25 to 42]. It is very detailed in content. Every possible aspect of the spiritual path  is covered in it. Hence it is ranked as one of the Prasthana-Traya, the three scriptures which  claim the highest degree of authenticity in Hinduism.  The Geeta is universal; its teaching is for all times and all climes. Man’s core pursuits  and concerns are dealt with. For example: How to get rid of fear? How to conquer the mind?  How to meditate? What is man’s duty on earth? – and so on. Social issues are not di...

============================================================================== Wednesday 23, April 2025. 08:45. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3: Karma Yogam: (The Yogam of Action): 11. Swami Mukundananda. ============================================================================== Slogam: 11. "devan bhavayatanena te deva bhavayantu vah parasparam bhavayantah shreyah param avapsyatha." ============================================================================== devan—celestial gods;  bhavayatā—will be pleased;  anena—by these (sacrifices);  te—those;  devaḥ—celestial gods;  bhavayantu—will be pleased;  vaḥ—you;  parasparam—one another;  bhavayantah—pleasing one another;  shreyaḥ—prosperity;  param—great;  avapsyatha—shall achieve ============================================================================== Translation: BG 3.11:  By your sacrifices, the celestial gods will be pleased, and by cooperation between humans and th...

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