Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

================================ --------------------------------------------------- 15/04/2020. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 7. ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Well, this is a story about every one of us.  It is not merely a tale to hear, it has some connection with all of us. Such is the poor understanding we have of God and such the nature of the moksha that we are thinking of in our minds, in a peculiar manner of our own.  Don’t you think that we would like to exist somehow in this very way even in the garden of Eden, in the presence of the Almighty?  And would you like to be swallowed up by the lion of God?  No, that is a terrible thing!  No one can gainsay that there is a basic love for bodily existence, and our idea of immortality is of a long duration of existence in this very state of affairs in which we are living today. Only, we would not like to have the pinpricks of daily lif...

====================================== ------------------------------------------------------------- 14/04/2020. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sankhya Yogam -3. ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #This wisdom that Arjuna seemed to lack, due to which he wrongly judged the situation that he was facing, is called sankhya, which is a well-known term in philosophical circles.  ##“You lack sankhya—that is, the wisdom of life. This is your malady and, therefore, everything that you have said is all a medley of chaos. Your arguments are not couched in a proper logical style, and your conclusions are not drawn from valid premises. Your premise itself is wrong. The premise is nothing but the report of the sense organs and the demand of the instinct, which is conditioned by love and hatred. From this you have to rise through sankhya.” ----------------------------------------------------- 2. #There is a phil...

===================================== --------------------------------------------------------------- 13/04/2020. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 2. --------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Today I am not discussing any intricate theme. It is a light vein of a story which you may find very interesting. The Pandavas were getting on with the miracle vessel, the divine bowl offered by the Sun. How can the Sun be so kind to us? I was happy to read a little anecdote in the Kalyana Kalpataru. Kalyana is the magazine of the Gita Press.  They narrated a story that actually happened. One gentleman from Europe who was not accustomed to the heat of the Indian sun in summer got sunstroke when he stood in the sun. He could not bear the heat of this summer of India. He had fever, and he took rest and recovered.  The next day some brainwave occurred to him. It appears he took ...

======================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/04/2020. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 10. --------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Love for things in the world can melt in the menstruum of God-experience only when God-thought is inclusive of all other affections. The affection or love for God is not a love that is different from other loves, but it is a transcendent love which includes all other loves, just as the values of the dream world are included in the values of the waking world. When we wake up from dream, we do not have a feeling of loss. The mind does not run towards the treasures which it might have had in dream.  ##Is a beggar in the waking state sorry that he has lost the kingdom he had in dream?  ###A beggar on the road might have dreamt yesterday night that he was an emperor, but when he woke up into the consciousness of a beggar ...

==================================== ---------------------------------------------------------- 11/04/2020. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 6. ------------------------------------------------------- 1. There is a very interesting story.  Narayana and Lakshmi were seated in Vaikuntha. Lakshmi cast a glance over the whole world and saw a pig wallowing in a mire, eating rubbish. She was really sorry.  She told Narayana,  “What is this creation of yours? If you wish, you can give salvation to anyone in a moment; and this is the compassion that you have! Look at this poor pig. Can you not bring it back to Vaikuntha? Why does it stink in mire?”  Narayana said,  “It does not want to come. If it does not want to come, what can I do?”  “Oh, who will not want to come to Vaikuntha, the glorious paradise?” Lakshmi said.  “But I tell you, it does not want to come,” said Narayana. Lakshmi again said, “Impossibl...

================================================================ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/04/2020. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sanhkya Yogam -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I hinted yesterday that the spiritual seeker mostly finds himself in this predicament when he cannot handle the world properly. In one condition of the mind, the world is an object of delight and enjoyment—as a property. In another condition of the mind, it looks like an obstacle from which the earlier we extricate ourselves, the better. We wish to free ourselves from all our entanglements in the world.  But a third stage comes when the world reacts in an adverse manner upon the mind that has thought it to be a redundant tail, as it were, of its perception. Then it is that there is actually a humiliating coming down of the aspiring conscious...

==================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09/04/2020. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata is a very vast book. It is the largest book, next to the Shanti Parva, out of the eighteen books of the Mahabharata. All the stories, anecdotes, narrations, mythological descriptions – practically all which we may consider as popular religion – can be seen beautifully pictured in the Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata. It is one of the most interesting treatises, filled with stories of wondrous, miraculous occurrences and the possibilities, secrets, and profundities of creation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...