Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 13, 2021. 08:19. PM.  Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death - 8. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, the Bhagavadgita still keeps God away from us a little bit, and does not want us to jump into God immediately, though much has been said about our relationship to creation and the existence of God as the Supreme Creator. There is a necessity felt by us to understand what happens to us after we quit this body. "Well, I understand what you say. Here I am, here in this vast world, this universe, and the Great God is there as the Creator. Yes, perfectly okay; but when I leave this world, what happens to me?" This is the subject of eschatology – the life after death subject. "When a person dies, what happens?" This was the question of Nachiketas as we have it recorded there in the Kathopanishad. What happens when we qui...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 12, 2021. 06:59. PM.  Chapter - 10 : Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-7. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But one has to be careful, again, in understanding what the Upanishads mean, or the Bhagavadgita intends, or anyone connotes when they say that the Self and the universe are identical. It is easy to misunderstand the statement and it is hard to make out the significance thereof. The self is that which we regard as our own psychophysical individuality, the Mr. or Mrs., the “I” that we regard ourselves to be, this is the self for our practical purposes today. But if we analyse the motives behind the moods and activities of the so-called self of ours, we will realise that its intentions are selfish—‘selfish’ in a particular interpretation of the meaning of the self. The urge of the senses towards the objects is the action ...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday,  May   11, 2021. 05:25. PM. Chapter-8.The Fourth Chapter Begins: The Avataras of God-4. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Whenever we feel some pain in the body, even in a finger or a toe, it means the whole body is sick, and immediately the healing forces start working. At once the centre of the universe acts, just as the centre of our personality acts when we start sneezing or we have a headache or a wound in the foot, etc. In order to illustrate the similarity of the cosmic structure and the human structure, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita tell us that the universe is one person. Just as we are one person, the whole universe is also one person. He is called Mahapurusha, Supreme Purusha, Purushottama. How many people are there in this world? There is only one person. Million-headed, million-eyed and million-...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 10, 2021. 06:15.PM. Chapter-11. Participating with the Intention of the Universe -1. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Creator released His creation of beings with the injunction that everyone is necessarily associated with a sacrifice.  BG. CH-3. SLO-10. saha-yajnah prajah srishtva purovacha prajapatih anena prasavishyadhvam esha vo ’stvishta-kama-dhuk BG 3.10: In the beginning of creation, Brahma created humankind along with duties, and said, “Prosper in the performance of these yajñas (sacrifices), for they shall bestow upon you all you wish to achieve.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a very famous statement in...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday,  May  09,  2021.  06:23.PM.  Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16. Daivasurasampadvibhagayogam , Slokam-16. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-16.   aneka citra vibhrantah   mohajalasamavrtah, prasaktah  kamabhogeshu   patanti  narakesucau. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : aneka  citta  vibhrantah  =  along  with  numerous  perplexed by anxieties; moha  jala  samavrtah  =  compltely  captured  in  the  net  of  illusions; kama  bhogeshu   prasaktah  =  fully  immersed / engaged  in  lust  and  sense  gratifications; asucau  nara...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, May 07, 2021. 08:12.PM. Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence - 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the point of view of the values of life based on our ordinary perception of things, it would appear that there is very little chance of the cosmical view entering into the normal modes of perception. We never look at things from a cosmical point of view. Everything seems to be at some place only, and perhaps for some time. Something is here, something is somewhere else, and there is apparently, from the perceptional point of view, no vital connection among things. We seem to be living in a world of values based on our sense perceptions which cannot embody anything that we can consider as universal or cosmic. There is nothing to prove in our daily life that cosmicality operates in us consciously. Every act of ours, every thought ...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 06, 2021. 08:24. PM.  Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death - 7. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BG- CH- 8, SLO-3. shri bhagavan uvacha : "aksharam brahma paramam svabhavo ’dhyatmam uchyate bhuta-bhavodbhava-karo visargah karma-sanjnitah" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bhuta-bhavodbhava-karo visargah karma-sanjnitah (Gita 8.3) –  karma is understood to be action, Everybody knows what this word means – action. Karma, karma, karma – it is understood in a thousand ways. "Oh, it is my karma," people say when they wail, weep over something, by which they mean their fate, or rather, more properly, the effect of what they did in the past, or what they do, what they have done, and so on. But more profound thinkers have understood ...