Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, April 17, 2021. 10:45. AM.  Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death -4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now we are introduced into the cosmological principle of creation and the Creator, which theme was essential in the earlier stages of mere discipline of the personality which culminated in dhyana, in the sixth chapter. God Is! And when we are passing through a mere disciplinary process, such things need not be told us. When we are in the earlier stages of our schooling, we do not even know who is ruling our country, we do not know that there is a government at all, because we need not be concerned with such things which are beyond our heads and which do not constitute part and parcel of our education in the earlier stages. Later on, we begin to study geography and history and political science, civics, and then we come to know s...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 16, 2021. 10:01. AM.  Chapter - 10: Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a hard thing for the mind to entertain, because no human being is accustomed to think in this manner. We have a stereotyped way of thinking which is the traditional outlook of life, which is essentially selfish, personal and materialistic, physical and rooted in the utter isolatedness of sense from the whole of the environment. The very quintessence of Yoga practice is stated in two verses towards the end of the Fifth Chapter, which is detailed out in an expanded form in the Sixth Chapter. The contact of the senses with objects outside has to be severed. This is the first instruction. Here we are likely to make a mistake in understanding the meaning of this statement. The objects have to be severed from their contact with...

. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday,  April  14, 2021. 03:07. PM. Chapter-7. The Third Chapter Concludes: The Knower of Reality.-7. Post-18. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a procedural method of the application from the lower orders to the higher orders. But there is a direct method of subjugating the sense organs, which is the rousing of the aspiration of the soul for establishing itself in Universal Consciousness. This is called the rousing of the brahmakara vritti in the mind. A vritti is a modification of the mind. Ordinarily there is a visayakara vritti in your mind. A modification of the mind in terms of the objects of sense is called visayakara vritti, but the modification of the mind in terms of Universal Existence is called brahmakara vritti. When you try to analyse the interrelationships of the circumstances of life, you will notice that everything ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, April  13, 2021. 09:30. AM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10 : The Need for Sankhya -5. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now comes the third argument. Emotionally, you will be disturbed. If you are a renegade, a runaway, or a parasite, you would consider this life of degradation worse than death. Suppose that nobody wants to talk to you. “This stupid ass,” they call you, and nobody considers you as worthwhile. You would be a nobody in this world. You would be considered as a renegade, and for a person such as yourself who has enjoyed a reputation as a respected hero, worshipped, adored, to live with this ignominy would be worse than dying. Now, these are tentative replies, not the real reply. You cannot s...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday. April 12, 2021. 10;31.AM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16.  Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam. Slokams-11&12.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cintamaparimeyam  ca  pralayantamupasritah; kamopabhogaparamah  etavaditi  niscitah. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slokam-12. asapasasatairbaddhah  kamakrodhaparayanah, ihante  kamabhogartham  anyayenarthasancayan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tatvam(Essence) Slokam-s : 11 & 12. { They believe that to gratify the senses unto the end of life is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus there is no end to their anxiety. Being bound by hundreds and thousands of desires, by l...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 29, 2021. 10:43.AM. Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-6. Post-19. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So here is a point in the expectation of no result. When you give charity to somebody, do you give it thinking what that man will give back to you? That is like a brother-in-law giving to a brother-in-law. It is not charity. If a father is educating his son under the impression that he will take care of him in old age, he is not doing any charity. It is some kind of social work or family work. Total joy has not gone. He expects something. If charity is given with the expectation of return, it is not charity. When you arrange a banquet, a large feast, it is said not to invite only your friends because you know they will also invite you to a banquet one day. This is no good. If you give a banquet to your own relatives...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, April 10, 2021. 09:45. AM.  Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death -3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then we come to the harder task of relating the individual itself with its original, from where it has come – the cosmos. This is a third step, as it were, we are taking, and a more difficult step because the subject of epistemology is a crucial theme in all philosophical studies, and it is an essential introduction to all further studies in the philosophical fields. It is a very difficult theme and much has been said and written about it – still people are saying and writing about it, without coming to a final conclusion as to how we come in contact with the world at all, and how we know that anything is there at all. Even today we are not able to come to a final conclusion about it because the doctrines of philosophy vary from each other...