Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ================================================================================= Wednesday 28, May 2025, 11:00. Article  Scriptures Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 6.  Sami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 24th, 1973) ================================================================================ We are a positive personality when we grow, not merely a transcendence of lower values. Merely giving up something wrong, bad or evil is not enough. We want to achieve something positive which is good, which is proper, and which is just. How can we rest merely in a negative personality of having avoided something? As health is not merely absence of disease, spirituality is not merely control of the senses, but the positive achievement of a superior state of existence and perception and knowledge. Therefore, it is a state of freedom and bliss. We cannot have freedom and bliss merely by having avoided something or got out of some clutches. Positive is spiritu...

  ================================================================================= Tuesday 27, May 2025, 10:30 Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 1.6. Chapter 1: The Vedas The Vedas and Their Classification Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================= "The Concept of Law and Sacrifice in the Vedas": The Rig-Veda gives two code words: satya and rita, signifying the spiritual law as such and the law in its working process in the cosmos. While satya is the principle of integration rooted in the Absolute, rita is its application and function as the rule and order operating in the universe. Sometimes rita is interpreted as the original principle of being and satya its manifestation. The world is sustained by a just and inexorable law which is the decree of God for the well-being of all. Conformity with this law tends to material and spiritual progress and advancement, l...

  ====================================================================================================== Sunday 25, May 2025, 11:30. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita Daily Invocations:  2.The Satarudriya-7. Swami Krishnananda ====================================================================================================== 23. nama asinebhyasasayanebhyasca vo namo namah svapadbhyo jagradbhyasca vo namo namastiabhadbhyo dhavadbhyasca vo namo namah sabhabhyah sabhapatibhyasca vo namo namo asvebhyo'śvapatibhyasca vo namah. Prostration to Thee who art the sitting and the reclining; prostration to Thee who art the sleeping and the waking; prostration to Thee who art the standing (static) and the running (dynamic); prostration to Thee who art the assemblies and the assembly chiefs; prostration to Thee who art the horses and the horse riders. 24. nama avyadhinibhyo vividhyantibhyasca vo namo nama ugababhyastrmhatibhyasca vo namo namo grtsebhyo grtsapatibhyasca vo namo namo vratebhyo vr...

========================================================================================= Friday 23, May2025, 10:20. Article Scriptures Catechism of Hinduism: 5. Q: Who are the saints and prophets? Give their brief life-sketch. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================= Q: Who are the saints and prophets? Give their brief life-sketch. A: The Hindus adore the well-known Divine Incarnations of Narayana or Vishnu, viz., Rama and Krishna, who are classified among the gods and are not regarded as humans. The great sages and saints who hold a pre-eminent position are Vasishtha, Vyasa, Suka, Dattatreya, Vamadeva, Yajnavalkya and the like; also, the great devotees associated with devotion to the principal gods popularly worshipped, viz., Vishnu, Siva, Ganesa, Devi, Skanda and Surya; included also are the Acharyas referred to above. Q: What is its relationship with modern science and how does it affect modern man? A: Hinduism, as ...

============================================================================================== Sunday 11, May 2025, 11:10. Books Bhagavad Gita & Hinduism The Moksha Gita: by Swami Sivananda: Commentary: 4.1. by Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 4: The Nature of Avidya-1. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================== 1. The Guru said: Avidya is Malina-Sattwa. It is the Upadhi or limiting adjunct of Jiva. It is the Karana Sarira of the individual soul. Avidya is Anandamaya Kosha. Avidya is the same as Maya, but only in relation to the individual. Avidya is Malina-Sattwa or Sattwa polluted by Rajas and Tamas. There is a preponderance of distractive activity and stupor in Avidya. The individual is controlled by Avidya whereas Ishwara is not controlled by Maya. The force of Avidya limits the consciousness to such an extent that the individual is falsely made to believe that its body is the entire truth. Not only the body but...

============================================================================================= Wednesday 21, May 2025, 09:20. Books  Bhagavadgita & Hinduism Canons of a Perfect Life: 5. (Chapter & Slokam no in brackets) Swami Krishnananda Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita ============================================================================================================ 31.Self-help Is the Road to Achievement One should raise oneself by one's Self alone; let not one lower oneself; for the Self alone is the friend of oneself, and the Self alone is the enemy of oneself. (VI.5) The Self is the friend of the self of him by whom the self has been conquered by the Self; but to the unsubdued self the Self will act as a hostile enemy. (VI.6) 32.Moderation in Life Is Yoga Verily, Yoga is not possible for him who eats too much, nor for him who does not eat at all; nor for him who sleeps too much, nor for him who is (always) awake, O Arjuna. (VI.16) Yoga bec...

  ======================================================================================================= Tuesday 20, May 2025, 09:50. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 2.5. Discourse 2: The Search for Wholeness - 5. Swami Krishnananda.  ======================================================================================= Who can know the whole of this Earth, what to speak of other things beyond the Earth? No one can imagine what is in the skies and above. We are very much conditioned to this little place, Muni-ki-reti or Rishikesh; or the farthest expansion of our mind may be to India or the Earth. This is not to look at the whole of the tree but to see only a little of it—and that, too, wrongly, as an externalised form. Even this little knowledge that we seem to have is erroneous knowledge and wrongly directed. But the mystery creeps into this horrid picture of life because of the presence of the great unifying absolute power of God. This unifying presence keeps us s...

  Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) is at Adi Sankara Nilayam: Kochi, India. The second part of the Manu smriti Camp was held as a residential programme in Tamil from 11 to 17 May 2025 at Adi Sankara Nilayam. 65 seekers, from youth to elders, came together to explore Sanatana Dharma through the lens of the Manu smriti, focusing on Chapters 5 to 8. Exposition of the text by Swami Ramakrishnananda (Chinmaya Mission, Nagapattinam) was the heart of this experience. With a blend of simplicity and insight, Swamiji wove humour and relatable stories into his discourses, making even the most intricate verses easy to understand and relatable. His warmth and compassion created a space where every participant felt truly engaged. The days were thoughtfully structured and packed with inspiring discourses, engaging discussions, and quiet moments for deep reflection, making every moment meaningful and transformative. More than a study camp, it was a lived experience of Dharma and deep contem...