Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June 11, 2021.7:15. AM.  Chapter 11: The Yoga of Meditation - 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, the acceptance of Yoga should be a whole-souled attitude of the seeker. It should not be merely a surface outlook which has somehow acquiesced in the situation. And, as the great goal of life is the wholeness of reality, our preparedness for its realisation should also be a wholeness from our side. Hence, a moody attitude and an acceptance which is partial cannot be satisfactory where our objective is such an important factor in life as Yoga. All this has been touched upon in a concise manner in different places of the chapters of the Bhagavadgita, which will give us a clue as to why we have varying moods and contradictory desires, which will surprise even our own selves. The answer to this question ...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday,  June 9, 2021.8:04. PM. Chapter - 9. The Fourth Chapter Continues: The Performance of Action as a Sacrifice - 3. Post-3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. In a similar manner, there is a spontaneous action that is taking place in the cosmos when any activity, any action, takes place anywhere. The reaction is not created by somebody, such as God in heaven. God does not sit there and say, “So-and-so is doing something. I shall react in this manner.” It is an automatic action of the cosmos. When something happens to some part of the body, an automatic reaction is set up by the entire organism in relation to the particular event taking place in the limb of the body. There is no third person who pushes the button. 2. The difficulty in understanding what karma is arises on account of our difficulty in knowing what our relationship is wi...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 08, 2021. 9:03.PM. Chapter-11. Participating with the Intention of the Universe -5. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) Post-5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There is a beautiful phrase uttered by a modern thinker: The universe is in travail at the birth of even a single event. Travail is the pang of birth, and at the birth of even a single event in the world, the pang is felt by the whole universe because the whole universe is made up of such substance as is present in the operation and activation of any event anywhere. Or, to give our old homely example, the activity of any single part of our body is, at the same time, the activity of the whole body. Thus, unless the whole universe contributes its might and cooperates in a given manner, we would not be existing here as a person. But why ...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 07, 2021. 5 : 40. PM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-16.  Daiva-asura-sampad-vibhaga-yogam. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-19 : "Tan aham dvishatah kruran sansareshu naradhaman kshipamy ajasram ashubhan asurishv eva yonishu." 16-19 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : tān—these;  aham—I;  dviṣhataḥ—hateful;  krūrān—cruel;  sansāreṣhu—in the material world;  nara-adhamān—the vile and vicious of humankind; kṣhipāmi—I hurl;  ajasram—again and again;  aśhubhān—inauspicious;  āsurīṣhu—demoniac;  eva—indeed;  yoniṣhu—in to the wombs;  ------------------------...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 29, 2021. 10:15.AM. Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence - 5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These five koshas mentioned – Annamaya, Pranamaya, Manomaya, Vijnanamaya, Anandamaya – this body, this social relation, this matter, this possession, this wealth, this whatever you have, they are all extraneous to your immortal essence, and therefore they are bound to leave you. Bereavement is the law of phenomenal existence. There is a verse towards the end of the Mahabharata which says that all accumulation will one day end in dispersion.  All rising will end in fall. All accumulation will end in extinction. Life ends in death, and it is a fool who has occasions of joy and sorrow several times in a day. Sometimes you are elated, sometimes you are grief-stricken. There should be no occasion for you either to exult or to...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, June 4, 2021. 8:10. AM.  Chapter 9 : The Majesty of God-Consciousness - 3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otherwise there is a progressive salvation, a graduated ascent through the paths which are described in the Bhagavadgita and the Upanishads. But God is more than all these things that have been told us. The power of God and the jurisdiction of God's operation is so vast that everything that we have said up to this time seems to pale into almost an airy nothing before the glory, the resplendence, the majesty and omnipresence of the Almighty. Nothing is there outside God, nothing is superior to God, nothing external. The absoluteness of the Infinite Being, who no more remains as an extra-cosmic creator but is an immanent reality, is the theme of the chapters to come, so that we seem to be in a more friendly, parental relation with God tha...

-------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, June 05, 2021. 5:54. PM.  Chapter 11: The Yoga of Meditation - 1. -------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Yoga of Meditation is the subject of the Sixth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita—Dhyana Yoga, as it is called.  We have noticed that, for the purposes of meditation, a convenient place, free from distractions, is necessary. The time that we choose for meditation, also, is to be such that it should not have the background of any engagement or activity which may distract the attention of the mind from the goal of meditation. A suitable place, a suitable time—these two are very important prerequisites. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But more important, perhaps, than pl...