Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, September 07, 2021. 7:30.PM. Chapter 7:The Entry of the Absolute into the Relative - 9. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was Buddha who had the same experiences of this kind. The great master was meditating on the possibility of attaining nirvana, and something came and told him, “Get up from this work.” All kinds of things were told to him:  “This world is not so bad as you are imagining. What is wrong with this world? You have a beautiful palace. Have you not lived cosily?  Your subjects are pleading to have your grace. All the gold and silver is with you. Also, you have a long life, which is a blessing. Here is the beauty, here is the grandeur, here is the taste.  Do you think the world is bitter always? There i...

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday,  September 06, 2021. 9:30. PM. Chapter -13. Cosmology and Eschatology- 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Eighth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita we have an important departure made from the trend followed in the earlier ones, viz., a slight emphasis on the structure of the cosmos, for the purpose of elucidating the fate of the soul after the shedding of the physical body, and also to elucidate the possibility of contacting the Supreme Being in this sojourn of cosmic existence. The questions with which the chapter commences are ushered in by a statement made by Krishna towards the end of the Seventh Chapter itself. We are supposed to conceive the ultimate Reality in all its facets—the objective, the subjective as well as the universal phases of its manifest...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday,  September 05, 2021. 9:14. PM. Discourse 12 : THE FIFTH CHAPTER CONTINUES : THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERFECTED PERSON : 3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fruit of action that accrues through actions performed with a motive for fruit, this also is not done by God Himself. He is not thinking of giving us something. Neither does He take anything, nor does He give us anything. An automatic action takes place on account of the very structural pattern of the universe. Whether we go to heaven or to hell or we are reborn, we cannot say that God is thinking that we should be thrown somewhere or that we should be made to take rebirth. It is nothing of the kind. The universe is an automatic system of operation, and does not require an outside interference from God. Actual...

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, September 04, 2021. 7:09. PM. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita CHAPTER-13. The Supremely Friendly Power - 5. (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I shall tell you another story. God’s love for man is greater than man’s love for God. This is a startling feature in spiritual history. There was a great saint living in a village who was reputed to be capable of seeing God every day and speaking to Him. In the night he encountered God, and he had a daily conversation with Him. Everyone respected him so much, that this is a person who speaks to God every day. In the daytime he had devotees around him and gave instruction, but in the night he would be speaking to God. One lady, it is said, who had some distress of her own, was co...

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, Septembert 03, 2021. 6:28. PM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita Chapter-17. Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam :  Slokam-5&6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam- 5 & 6. : 5. "Asastravihitam   ghoram  tapyante  ye  tapo janah, dambhahankarasamyuktah   kamaragabalanvitah." 6. "Karsayantah  sarirastham   bhutagramamacetasah, mam  caivantahsarirastham   tan  viddhyasuraniscayan." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : Slokams : 5 & 6. dambha  ahankara  samyuktah  =  those  engaged  with   pride  and  egotism; kama  raga  bala  anvit...

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 8, 2021. 10:01.PM. Chapter 7:The Entry of the Absolute into the Relative - 8. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The details will be told to you in the Sixth Chapter. You have to find some time to think over these issues. It is a serious matter that is before you. Every day in your life you have to be seated alone for some time, and then close your eyes. “What is it that I have gathered, after all?” Then collect your thoughts. Stop the breathing for a second and work upon this concept of your involvement in the whole cosmos, in this sacrificial participation of your personality in the context of God’s creation, as mentioned – in your not being a person but a Super-person, really speaking. “I am foolhardy to think that I am an individual by myself. Every moment...

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday,  September 01, 2021. 7:04. PM.   Chapter -12. God and the Universe - 6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- God has created and maintains a sort of distance from all the objects which are controlled by Him as His creations. The fear of God is due to the power of God. We have a fear of the ocean, and we would not like to go near it. The reason is the magnitude and the expanse that is there, in front of which we look like puny nothings. We are frightened when we look at the skies above. The expanse seems to be so impossible of even thinking that for a long time we cannot gaze at the distance and be at peace with ourselves.  We are also frightened at the distance of the Sun from ourselves and the largeness of the astronomical universe that is giganti...