Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 30, 2020.. 8:04.PM. Srimad  Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) Slokam-26. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-26. "Mam  ca  yovyabicarena  bhaktiyogena  sevate, sa  gunan  samatitaiyatan  bramabhuyaya  kalpate." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : mam  =  I Paramatma, unto Me; avyabicarena  =  without  devotion; bhaktiyogena  =  the  bhakti; yah  sevate  sah  =  one  who  do  the  seva,  he; etan  gunan  = these  guna= bramabhuyaya  kalpate  =  he  is  eligible  to  receive /obtain  Brahma-tvam. ...

Sunday, June 28, 2020. 9:42. AM. Chapter-1. Introduction to the Bhagavadgita-9. 1. The Bhagavadgita is the Lord’s song, as they say. Bhagavan is Bhagavat. Song is a musical message that has sprung from God, as it were. When God speaks, He speaks in a language of Eternity. He does not speak in English or Sanskrit or Latin. It is the tongue of the Eternal that spoke here. That ferocious and fear-striking picture that is painted in the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is a faint attempt that is made by the best ability of the poet to tell you what you can expect finally when the world does not want you any more.  When you go to war, you do not always go with the idea of coming back safe.  You may go to the other side also; but what is the use of going to the other side?  What is the purpose?  Even if death is the outcome of a war which is considered as very unavoidable, what happens to you after death? 2. If nothing happens after death, perhaps nothing happens in th...

Saturday, June 27, 2020.8:20.AM. Chapter 3: Samkhya – Right Understanding-4. 1. Now, the second chapter and the third chapter have some sort of relationship from the point of view of the theme discussed. It is merely pointed out in the second chapter that right understanding is necessary, and only an introductory remark is made as to what samkhya means, so far as the second chapter goes. Right from the beginning till the end of the second chapter, the word samkhya is used in many, many places, suggesting that samkhya is the knowledge of the harmony that is there among all things – samatva – the equanimous, organisational, cooperative feature operating between one and another, thus cementing all particularities or individuals into a sort of cosmic organisation or universal society.  This is the suggestion of the second chapter when it says :  Samatvaṁ yoga ucyate (Gita 2.48):  Equanimity is yoga, balance is yoga, harmony is yoga, cooperation is yoga – not competition, not ...

Thursday, June 25, 2020.9:29.AM. Chapter 5: The Mortal and the Immortal-9. 1. Death is a transformation of ourselves from one space-time order to another space-time structure. We move from one continuum of space-time to another continuum. It does not mean that the universe is made up of one type of space-time only. The present system is one particular arrangement of space-time, and this particular body of ours is in consonance with the requirements of the order of space-time in which we are at present. When the time series and the spatial order changes in the higher ascent of ourselves, the whole physical form has to be shed completely and a new form has to be assumed for this purpose. But inasmuch as our consciousness, the soul, is connected with this particular bodily complex, we imagine that this transformation of ourselves from one space-time order to another is a destruction of ourselves, and as destruction is fearsome, we hate death. 2. Now, therefore, the fear of death is due to...

Wednesday, June 24, 2020.8:41.AM. Discourse 4: The Second Chapter Continues – How to Live in the World-3. 1. Thus, Sri Krishna tells Arjuna, “Don’t be a coward, saying that one day you will die and afterwards everything will be annihilated, saying that you don’t know what will happen afterwards.” The fear of death implies the futurity of the soul. We say that we must do good actions, we must be righteous, we must live moral and ethical lives. These injunctions cannot have any meaning unless the soul is deathless, because at any moment one can pass away. If tomorrow is the end of this individuality, all good actions also go with it. Therefore, all the injunctions for being righteous and good and humane become futile but for the fact that there is a possibility of the continuity of life after the perishing of this body. That is, rebirth of the soul is implied in the very injunctions to be good in this world, to do some service, and to have a worthwhile existence in this world. 2. The reb...

Monday, June 22, 2020. 8:25.AM. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata - 4 1. There is a difficulty. We have a difficulty always, and there is not a single moment when we are not in some difficulty because if there is no difficulty of any kind, in any sense of the term, at any place, in any aspect of our life, it would be difficult to imagine that we would be living and doing things in the manner that we do now. There is perpetual motivation in some direction in our life, and our life is a complicated network of involvements and relations. What is meant by ‘our life’? It is a large web of interrelations where everything is connected in some way, in some proportion, in some emphasis of intensity. It is my particular need or necessity felt at this hour, but my need or necessity is not unconnected with the environment in which I am living, and it is not possible to assure myself that I am totally free from any kind of association with my ...

================================================================ Sunday, June 21, 2020.. 11:16.AM. Srimad  Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) Slokam-25.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slokam-25. "Manapamanayostulyah  tulyah  mitraripakshayo, sarvarambhaparityagi   gunatitah   sa  ucyate." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Manapamanayoah                    =  respect  and  disrespect,  both; tulyah                                       =  take  ( consider / think )  as  equal; mitraripakshayoah                    =  frien...