Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ================================================================ =============================================================== Wednesday, February 16, 2022. 18:30.  Chapter-18.( "Moksha-Sanyasa-Yogam" ) Introduction : ============================================================== In this final chapter the Supreme Lord Krishna summarises in brief all of the perennial principles and eternal truths that were presented in the previous 17 chapters and establishes the collective conclusion to all of them. In order to ascertain exactly what is the final conclusion of all the teachings and instructions that have been imparted up until now; the Supreme Lord Krishna concisely summarises the entire Bhagavad-Gita in this concluding chapter by clearly distinguishing the difference between renunciation of actions caused by the impulses of desire and renunciation of the desire for rewards for one's actions.  In previous chapters Lord Krishna has elaborated on the mental renunciation ...

 ============================================================= ============================================================== Wednesday, February 16, 2022. 20:00. Chapter : 9. The Yoga of Meditation.10. =============================================================== As I mentioned sometime back, you must be careful to note that this meditation is satisfying, and it should not be unsatisfying in any manner. The god whom you have chosen for your meditation is all-complete, and you do not want anything else in this world. “This god that I am meditating upon is all things, and everything will come to me from that god.” Faith is necessary. Do not doubt. If there is mere concentration through the will with lack of faith – with doubt that it may come or it may not come – then no, nothing will happen. Let this faith be there that it will certainly come. The world is a single organic completeness and living whole, and therefore everything is touching you everywhere. God is touching you. You...

============================================================== ============================================================== Tuesday, February 14, 2022. 21:00. Chapter 17. The Play of the Cosmic Powers-2. ================================================================ The soul within is the representative of the Universal in us; and everything else that is in the form of a vesture covering the soul is a representative of the phenomenal complex of names and forms. We should not underrate the powers of the cosmos with the impression that we are souls, because the cosmos derives its energy from the Universal itself. Just as a mirror which does not shine by itself can draw sustenance from the light of the Sun and appear as if it is also brilliant, so do our senses deceive us, distract us and tantalise us by appearing to offer us a satisfaction which they really cannot give. Here, in this awful struggle between these two forces, we are caught in the middle, and it is difficult with the st...

============================================================= ============================================================= Sunday, February 13, 2022. 20:00 Discourse 42 : Chapter-15 Begins: The world as an Inverted Tree. Ch - 15, Slo-1 : Ūrdhvamūlam adhaḥśākham aśvatthaṁ prāhur avyayam - POST-20. ============================================================= Discourse 42 : THE FIFTEENTH CHAPTER BEGINS : THE WORLD AS AN INVERTED TREE : ================================================================ We are now face to face with a very important section of the Bhagavadgita, known as the Purana Purushottama Yoga Chapter, the Fifteenth Chapter. It is considered very sacred, and people chant it every day before they take their lunch because it glorifies God. It describes what God is in respect  of this world and individuals, how we are related to the world, and related to God, finally. This subject is briefly touched upon in a very short chapter of only twenty verses, but these twenty v...

 ============================================================ ============================================================== Saturday, February 12, 2022. 20:00. THE MAHABHARATAM : Prelude to the Bhagavad Geeta & GEETA DHYANAM Meditation on the Bhagavad Geeta ======================================================== Reflections by Swami Gurubhaktananda on the Series of 13 Lectures by Swami Advayananda Acharyaji, 15th Batch Vedanta Course at Sandeepany Sadhanalaya, Powai, Mumbai Mahabharata: October 8th – October 18th , 2012 (10 Lectures) Geeta Dhyanam: October 25th– October 27th, 2012 (3 Lectures) =============================================================== Adi Shankaracharya Swami Sivananda Swami Tapovanji Swami Chinmayananda SERVE  LOVE  GIVE  PURIFY  MEDITATE  REALISE =============================================================== THE START OF THE MAHABHARATA WAR: =============================================================== The story below gives the background to th...

============================================================== =============================================================== Thursday, February 10, 2022. 20:00.  The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti). Chapter 18: Reconciling Knowledge and Action - 5. ================================================================ Yoga is said to be the identity of knowledge with being, consciousness with its content, subject with object, man with God, and the percipient with that which is perceived. This knowledge which is vitally related to its content is also a master of that content. Knowledge becomes power because of the fact that its content is not dissociated from it, as is the case in ordinary learning. Hence, knowledge is superior to external performance and material relationship. Any kind of thing that we do with an instrument outside is inferior to that which we do merely with thought. Thought moves the whole world. Ideas are behind every performanc...

 ============================================================= ============================================================ Wednesday, February 09, 2022. 18:30.  Chapter-17. { Sraddha-traya-vibhaga-yogam } Slokam-28. =============================================================== Important Note : - Take care and remember the  points.... =============================================================== 1. The method  of  purification  of  yajnam  and  tapas  etc.,  are  explained  from  slokam-23. onwards.... 2. Slokam-24. tells us when  one  should chant "OM". 3. Slokam-25. tells  us  when  one  should chant  "TAT". 4. Slokam-26  &  27. tell us  when  one  should  chant   "SAT" 5. And explains the  importance of "OM, TAT, SAT". 6. Finally in the last Slokam-28, of Chapter 17, to  make  the  activity / performance  suc...