Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

=============================================================================================== Wednesday 21, January 2026, 07:25. Article Scriptures The Gita's Four Basic Conflicts of Life: Swami Krishnananda. Spoken to a French-speaking group on December 28th, 1972) ============================================================================================== The Bhagavadgita cannot be easily understood. We can understand the Vedas and the Upanishads properly, but not the Bhagavadgita. Even the Upanishads, the fundamental scriptures of India, have a single meaning on the surface so that there is no difficulty in understanding them. But the Bhagavadgita is highly symbolic and esoteric, and the surface meaning is not its real meaning. No other scripture in India has had so many commentaries. While the Upanishads speak of God or the Absolute directly, the Bhagavadgita tries to touch various stages of the evolution of man, and that is the difficulty in understanding it. The Bhagavadg...

=================================================================================================== Monday 19, January 2026, 06:30. The Central Intention of the Bhagavadgita -  Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on November 26, 1972) ================================================================================================== The technique of the meditation in the Bhagavadgita is a little more complicated and comprehensive in its reach than even the Kathopanishad or the Sutras of Patanjali. Most students of the Gita regard it as a kind of ethical gospel, the morality of war, or a scripture on devotion to Bhagavan Sri Krishna. While the Bhagavadgita is all this, it is much more than this. It is difficult, therefore, to pinpoint the Bhagavadgita's method of meditation. It seems to say so many things in many places that one cannot easily know exactly what its final message is. Yet we can see, underlying its discourses, a current of thought which can be taken as its central gospel. While...

================================================================================================ Saturday 17, January 2026, 05:30. A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India - 1. 1.Introduction Swami Krishnananda ================================================================================================= The development of religious and philosophic thought in India comprises a many-sided presentation of the higher aspirations in man. While the Veda-Samhitas embody the prayers of the human spirit to the Universal Reality revealed in creation and record the vision of the One in the many, the Upanishads represent an attempt to dive into the One from the forms of the many. Though modern history sees an advance of thought from the Samhitas to the Upanishads, tradianuary tion does not permit any such bifurcation and sees in them two types of the vision of Reality, the former emphasising its aspect as creation and the latter its being, as it is. There is, no doubt, a t...

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  =================================================================================================== Saturday 10, January 2026, 20:30. Article Scriptures The Principles of the Bhagavadgita: 1.  Swami Krishnananda. ==================================================================================================== Consciousness cannot be externalised because consciousness is indivisible. If you imagine that consciousness is divisible, you have also to imagine that there is a gap between the two parts thereof. Who is conscious of this gap? Consciousness alone is conscious of this gap between the two parts. That means, consciousness is present even in the gap in between. This is another way of saying that consciousness is universal. Everyone in this world refers to 'himself' or 'herself'. This 'selfhood' is applicable not only to organic, but inorganic bodies and objects also. If 'selfhood' is applicable to the whole world, it means the whole world is fill...

  ================================================================================================== Thursday 08, January 2025, 20:20. Article Scriptures Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita - 7.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 24th, 1973) Post-7. ==================================================================================================== Desire and anger, greed, malice, jealousy, etc., are psychological consequences of the limitation of consciousness by bodily processes. When we have these traits and inclinations in our mind, we may take it for granted that we are still living an animal life, though we look like a human being. Higher than the body and the sensory is the intellectual and literary. A purely scientific, philosophical and rational living is higher than the animal form of sensory living, but spiritual life is more than rationality, more than scientific existence and more than intellectual appreciation. We cannot understand in the prese...