Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ======================================================================= ==================================================================== Thursday, December 23, 2021. 9:00. PM. The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita-15-2. Chapter-15 : The Way and the Goal -2. ================================================================== Whatever be the method that we adopt will not matter much, inasmuch as the attainment is going to be uniform, and common in either case. An unnecessary subjection of oneself to torture under the notion of austerity, or tapas, while the body is not prepared for it, would be unwelcome on the spiritual path. Spiritual practice is not a mortifying suffering; it is not a sorrow that we are courting as a part of the requirement on the way. In fact, the growth of the spirit from the lower level to the higher is like the spontaneous expansion of the dimension of anything that grows in the world, and when there is a healthy growth of anything there is no pain involved i...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Wednesday, December 22,2021. 7:00.PM Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : Discourse 40 The Thirteenth Chapter Concludes – Understanding Purusha and Prakriti POST-10. ========================================================================= The body cannot be conscious. Consciousness is different from the body; therefore, when there is bodily action—which is nothing but the action of prakriti, because the body is made up of prakriti's three gunas—we begin to imagine, “I am doing something. And because I feel that I am doing something, I also expect a result to follow from that action, and I must enjoy the result of that action. I am doing the action and, therefore, the fruit of that action should come to me.” Hence, karma phala comes as a recompense for the feeling that one is doing. But one who knows that prakriti alone does things, and activ...

======================================================================== ========================================================================= Tuesday, December 21, 2021. 7:30. PM. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 16-5. (The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita ) Chapter-16. Understanding the Essence of the Mind - 5. (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti). ========================================================================== Here is the crux of the whole matter.  We were wanting to know what the mind is.  We thought that our actions, physically motivated, are actually willed by the mind inside, and in that connection it became necessary for us to know what the mind is. Now we seem to find that this mind in us is a little concentrated form of cosmic energy. It is not your mind; it is not my mind. Now we are in a very dangerous position. We do not know where we are actually standing. Where am I standing? Where am I seated? Which is the world I am occupying? W...

 ========================================================================== ======================================================================== Monday, December 20, 2021. 7:40. PM. Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : 17-17. Chapter-17. { Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam } -17. Slokam-17. ======================================================================== Slokam-17 : "sraddhaya  paraya  taptam  tapastat  trividham  naraih, aphalakankshibhiyukaitah  sattvikam   paricakshate." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-17 Translation : "This threefold austerity, practiced by men whose aim is not to benefit themselves materially but to please the Supreme, is of the nature of goodness." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : aphala  akankshibhih  yukaitah  ...

 ================================================================= ====================================================================== Sunday, December 19, 2021.7:30. PM. A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 8-9.  Chapter 8 : The Stages of Yoga -9. ======================================================================== The objects of the senses have such an impact upon the senses that whenever you see something desirable or abhorrent, you are disturbed in your mind; therefore, in the initial stages of Yoga practice, the student is advised to place himself or herself in an atmosphere in which there will not be temptations. Do not be in a supermarket or a cinema hall or a theatre. These are not places for meditation. As far as possible, also isolate yourself physically from atmospheres of temptation and distraction, disturbance, agitation, and feelings of sorrow. Physical isolation is important – otherwise, why do people come to an ashram, Uttarkashi, Gangotri, and other places? --...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================= Sunday, December 19, 2021. 9:00. PM. The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita-15-1. Chapter-15 : The Way and the Goal -1. ======================================================================= The glorious vision of the Cosmic Form was magnificently described in the Eleventh Chapter; and towards its end it was also suggested that nothing but whole-souled devotion can be an appropriate means to this great achievement. Now the Twelfth Chapter commences with a query which immediately follows as a consequence of this suggestion. This Great Being, the Supreme Absolute, is capable of attainment through utter self-transcendence alone, a sacrifice of the self in the All-Self. It appears that this experience is impossible of attainment unless the soul raises itself to the status of this Supreme Omnipresence. But this requirement on the part of the sou...

=================================================================== =================================================================== Friday, December 17, 2021. 7:00.PM Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : Discourse 40 The Thirteenth Chapter Concludes – Understanding Purusha and Prakriti POST-9. =================================================================== Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-13. ( Kshetra-kshetrajna-vibhaga-yogam) Slokam-29 : "samam  pasyan  hi  sarvatra  samavasthitamisvaram, na  hinastyatmanatmanam  tato  yati  param  gatim." (13-29 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Translation of slokam : "One who sees the Supersoul in every living being and equal everywhere does not degrade himself by his mind. Thus he approaches the transcendental destination." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...