Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ------------------------------------------ Sunday, November 15, 2020. 06:24. PM. Discourse 6: The Third Chapter Begins – The Relation Between Sankhya and Yoga -1. Post-1. ------------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad Gita - Chapter-2. Slokam-72. "Esha brahmi sthitih partha nainam prapya vimuhyati,  sthitvasyam antakale’pi brahmanirvanamu ucchati." (2.72).  ------------------------------------------------ The Second Chapter of the Gita, which we have practically concluded yesterday, is the core of the teaching of the whole of the Bhagavadgita, which is elaborated in the subsequent chapters, from the Third onwards. Madhusudhana Saraswati, a commentator on the Bhagavadgita, has pointed out that the teachings of every subsequent chapter are a commentary on one or the other of the verses of the Second Chapter. The Second Chapter is pre-eminently important because the whole of the teaching is on Sankhya and yoga, whose basic principles have been explained during...

  ------------------------ Saturday, November 14, 2020. 08:06. AM. Chapter 8: The Realism and Idealism of the Bhagavadgita-2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ------------------------ How does the Bhagavadgita begin? It begins with a most prosaic atmosphere of a political situation, which is the grossest involvement of the human being in public affairs. It is the least that one can do; some people say it is the worst that one can do, and yet it is a reality in its own way. A thing may be the worst, but does it exist? As long as it exists, it enjoys a degree of reality. The worst thing does not become unreal merely because it is worst from some point of view, yet it is the ground on which the edifice of the great gospel is built. The Mahabharata battle is the scene of the commencement of this gospel. We will see a little later why that gory occasion should have been found the most suitable atmosphere for giving this mighty gospel. We shall ...

-------------------------------------- Friday, November 13, 2020. 08 : 51. AM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-15. Purushothama-yogam Slokam - 14. "This  chapter is very important, hence kindly  follow  and  understand  each  slokam  well." --------------------------------------- Slokam-14.  "Aham  vaisvanaro  bhutva  praninam  deham  asritah, pranapanasamayuktah  pacamyannam  caturvidham." --------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Aham  praninam  deham  asritah   vaisvanarah   bhutva  =  I  am  in  the  body  of  all  living  things,  present and  active   in  the  state  of  'Vaisvanaran'  ( Jadaragni )  the  digesting  fire; prana-apana-samayuktah  =  joining  or  mixing  with  the  pranavayu  ( inhain...

------------------------------------------------ Thursday, November 12, 2020. 09:43. AM. Chapter 3: The Transmigration of the Soul - 3. -------------------------------------------------- Then Arjuna again speaks, in the beginning of the Second Chapter. “Did I not explain myself properly? My love goes for my own elders on whose lap I sat, and who gave me education and taught me the art of archery. And my own brethren, kinsmen, are arrayed in front of me – the Kurus, whose blood also flows through my veins. What benefit can accrue to me by opposing my own kinsmen, my own well-wishers, my own elders?” ----------------------------- The answer of Sri Krishna is the Second Chapter of the Bhagavadgita, commencing from the eleventh Slokam  Sri Bhagavan uvacha "Ashochyan-anvashochas-tvam prajna-vadansh cha bhashase gatasun-agatasunsh-cha nanushochanti panditah." (Gita 2.11):  ---------------------------- “You speak as if you know everything. Very wise words you have spoken before me, ...

  ------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, November 10, 2020. 10 : 01. AM. Chapter 5: Life as a Yajna or Sacrifice - 5. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Emotional involvements are studied in psychoanalysis, sometimes known as 'abnormal psychology'. By a deep understanding of our own self, we may be a healthy person psychically, and psychoanalytically we are perfectly hale and robust. But from the point of view of yoga, we may still be an abnormal person – because abnormality does not necessarily mean being a psychoanalytic patient. There can be a 'metaphysical error' as philosophers would put it, apart from a mere social, political or emotional mistake that we commit. Here it is that yoga goes beyond mere human ways of thinking, much less social and political ways. It is a cosmic way of envisaging everything, which will inject a sort of shock into us. We may begin to shudder even to think of the possibility of...

  ------------------------------------------- Monday, November 09, 2020. 08:43. AM. Chapter 8: The Yoga of Action ----------------------------------------- The famous doctrine of Karma Yoga is the theme of the Third Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. This is one of the most difficult sections in the whole text, and a very important one, which provides the key to an understanding of the basic principles of the whole message. It was stated earlier that action should be grounded in understanding. This was the point made out in the Second Chapter. Now, what does it mean? How is it possible to root activity in understanding? This is expounded in the Third Chapter. ---------------------------------- There are certain misconceptions prevalent in the minds of people in regard to activity. For instance, oftentimes we feel that we are fed up with activity. We wish to withdraw ourselves from action as such, and remain inactive and do nothing. There are occasions in life when people feel like doing ...

------------------------------------------------ Sunday, November 08, 2020. 10:59. AM. Discourse 5: The Second Chapter Concludes – The Establishment of the Soul in Universality - 10. -------------------------------------------------  In a cloth shop, we can get cloth. In a cutlery shop, we can get cutlery. In a grocery shop, we can get groceries. But we cannot get what is not there.  ------------------------------------- This world is the shop where there is sorrow—# duhkhalayam—and, therefore, we will reap only sorrow if we are tethered to the demands of the sense organs. The whole of yoga is nothing but the restraining of the powers of the sense organs, which compel us to think in terms of the anatman, and centring it in the Atman. It is a movement from the centrifugality of the sensory activity to the centripetality of the soul’s contemplation on itself. -------------------------------- # "Tada drastuh svarūpe avasthanam; vrtti sarupyam itaratra (Y.S. 1.3-4)." ------------...