Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19/03/2020. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #Anything that is finite materially or conceptually urges itself forward to overcome its finitude by an entry into another finitude, under the impression that when the finitudes join together they make the Infinite. That is why we love objects with the notion that two objects coming together will abolish the finitude of objects.  *But that does not happen, because two finites do not make the Infinite. ##Even a million finites cannot make the Infinite, because the Infinite is a transcendent reality which cannot be described by characters that describe the finite, and it is...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18/03.2020. 2. The First Chapter – Vishadha Yogam, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit-8. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Arjuna was an epic representation of the internal chaos that one may have to face in the beginning of spiritual life. I am describing the initial stages of spiritual life, not the advanced conditions where we are receiving something positively :  ## “Great confusion—I have lost everything. I have lost my father and mother. I have no friends here, and nobody talks to me. I am sick. I have achieved nothing. I have no guidance, no teachings. I will go crazy.”  ###A spiritual seeker may feel like that, and run about here and there. Sometimes, to save...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17/03/2020. Chapter-6 : The Bhagavadgita : DEATH AND AFTER - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The Lord assures that one who leaves this world, thinking of Him alone, reaches Him, in the end. One's future is governed by one's last thought, at the time of death. As this thought is, however, the cumulative result of what one has been thinking throughout one's life, it is to be understood that one's future life is determined by the nature of the present life taken as a whole.  ##As a bitter tree does not bear a sweet fruit, one's last thought cannot be expected to be a divine one, if the life that precedes it is one of error and wickedness. By its fruit, we know the t...

======================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16/03/2020. Spoken on May 1, 1983) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The fact that we have an opponent outside us, something with which we cannot reconcile ourselves, of which we always have to be very cautious with drawn swords, only shows that we have not found a Krishna in our life, because to find a Krishna in our level is to find a principle of harmony, the secret of communion with that opposing element which is staring at us as the reality of life.  ##In the Bhagavadgita itself we are told that a particular form, a degree of reality, may stand against us as our own enemy if we are not in a position to find a means of uniting ourselves with it. ---------------------------...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15/03/2020. The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. Spoken on June 26, 1983) Post-10. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Now, it is not that nothing follows from your actions. Something does follow indeed. Let something follow, but let that be dedicated to God. If you consider yourself as merely an instrument of action in the hands of God, this dedication of the fruit of action is not difficult.  *But you are sure that you are doing it, and therefore you are expecting a result for yourself.  **When you do a thing, why should the result go to God?  ##This you don’t like, that God should be the beneficiary of the actions that you sweat for. Even here ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14.03.2020. Chapter 3: The Aranya Parvam of the Mahabharatam-6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #We may say there was some indiscretion. There are occasions when we may be able to read some meaning of indiscretion on the part of even good ones, which leads to their difficulty and problems. We may accept this point of view also.  ##Even an extremely good person is susceptible to erroneous action, due to what we may call an error of judgment at a particular moment. As we say, why did Yudhisthira have to play dice? He could have withheld himself from that, and so on.  ###Likewise, spiritual seeking may also sometimes get involved in a slight error of judgment, and that error...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13/03/2020. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #In the system of yoga propounded by Patanjali, an analysis of the mind is made towards the achievement of detachment. There are two kinds, at least, of the movement of the mind in respect of objects—an emotional kind and an intellectual kind. The emotional connection of consciousness with an object is what is usually called affection, love, or the so-called attachment, clinging.  ##This sort of relationship of the mind with the object is called a klishta vritti, a painful operation of the mind, because when we are emotionally related to an object there is anxiety in the mind at a...