Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Tuesday, June 14, 2022. 20:00. Discourse 45: The Sixteenth Chapter Concludes – "What is Proper and What is Improper in Our Life :  POST-40. ============================================================== Very few people have even heard of these names: dharma, artha, kama, moksha. These are the four feet, as it were, of the structure of human life. Ordinarily, from one's own reasoning, these ideas will not normally arise. The normal way of looking at things, the vision of things based on our independent thinking, is materially construed, sensorially oriented, and desire-filled. Thus, the necessity to consult and work according to the injunctions of the Shastras is considered here as imperative. The necessity for material amenities is something well known to people. We require certain physical comforts, but we cannot have so much of it as would deprive ...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Monday, June 13, 2022. 19:00 Chapter 21.The Two Ways of Yoga - 6. ========================================================================= Prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā is also mentioned. In this act of bringing consciousness back, we have also to take into consideration the role that is played by our pranas. The prana is the battery. It is the electrical cell which generates force. It is the powerhouse, the dynamo that pumps energy outward continuously and never allows the mind or consciousness to rest in itself. The prana is outwardly motivated always; therefore, in our attempt at bringing the mind back to the Self, the subdual of the impulse of the prana also is necessary. It is a controversy in yoga practice whether the prana is to be controlled first or the mind is to be controlled first. Hatha yogins especially feel that the prana should ...

 ======================================================================= -======================================================================= Sunday, June 12, 2022. 22:00. Meditation on the Bhagavad Geeta :  (9 Slokas) Slokam-3. The Beloved Divine Krishna ============================================== Slokam-3 "Prapanna paarijataya, otra vetra eka panaye;  jnana mudraya krishnaya, geeta-amrita duhe namah." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 prapanna paarijataya,   =  Who is the “Tree of Fulfillment”, i.e. the bestower of desires for those  who take refuge in Him; 2 totra vetra eka panaye;   =  Who holds a cane (flute) in one hand (to drive home the herd of  cattle under His protection); 3 jnana mudraya krishnaya,   =  And the Jnana Mudra or symbol of Knowledge (in the other); to  Thee, O Krishna! – 4 geeta-amrita duhe namah....

 ======================================================================== ====================================================================== Saturday, June 11, 2022. 20:30.  Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam -20. ========================================================================= Slokam : Sarvabhuteshu yenaikam bhavamavyayamikshate | avibhaktam vibhakteshu tajjnyanam viddhi satvikam || 20 ||   Tattvam : By which one sees a single, imperishable, indivisible entity in all diverse beings, know that knowledge to be satvic. Understand that knowledge to be in the mode of goodness by which a person sees one undivided imperishable reality within all diverse living beings.  Translation : sarvabhuteshu : in all beings yena : by which ekam : single bhavam : entity avyayam : imperishable ikshate : one sees avibhaktam : indivisible vibhakteshu : diverse tat : that jnanam :knowledge viddhi : know satvikam : satvic Commentary   Knowledge, the doer and action we...

 ============================================================== =============================================================== Friday, June 10, 2022. 07:00.PM. Chapter 12: Communing with the Absolute through the Cosmic Tree - 1. ================================================================ "How do we approach God?" and "How do we conceive Him?" are questions raised at the beginning of the Twelfth Chapter. These procedures that we adopt in our endeavour to contact God are called, as you know very well, Yoga. A Yoga is an art of union with Reality. God, who is the Ultimate Reality, is to be contacted by some means. The means that we adopt is the Yoga, the method of inner communion. It is possible to regard God as an all-pervading, infinite presence. Or, we can conceive God as a Supreme Person appealing to our emotions and feelings. Which is the better way? Arjuna put a question: "Are we to concentrate our mind on our concept of the Universal Impersonality of ...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Thursday, June 09, 2022. 21:00. Discourse 45: The Sixteenth Chapter Concludes – "What is Proper and What is Improper in Our Life :  POST-39. ======================================================================= BG-ch-16. Slo-20. "Asurim yonimapanna mudha janmani janmani mamaprapyaiva kaunteya tato yantyadhamam gatim." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation of the slokam : Entering into demoniacal wombs, and deluded, not attaining to Me, birth after birth, they thus fall, O Kaunteya, into a condition still lower than that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Words Meaning : asurim = demoniac;  yonim = species;  apannah = gaining; mudhah = the fo...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Wednesday, June 08, 2022. 21:00 Chapter 21.The Two Ways of Yoga -6. =============================================================== Prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā is also mentioned. In this act of bringing consciousness back, we have also to take into consideration the role that is played by our pranas. The prana is the battery. It is the electrical cell which generates force. It is the powerhouse, the dynamo that pumps energy outward continuously and never allows the mind or consciousness to rest in itself. The prana is outwardly motivated always; therefore, in our attempt at bringing the mind back to the Self, the subdual of the impulse of the prana also is necessary. It is a controversy in yoga practice whether the prana is to be controlled first or the mind is to be controlled first. Hatha yogins especially feel that the prana should be restrained, and then ...