Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

Swami Chinmayananda: Take no pride in your possession, in the people (at your command), in the youthfulness (that you have). Time loots away all these in a moment. Leaving aside all these, after knowing their illusory nature, realise the state of Brahman and enter into it. ============================================================================== Thursday 22,  Feb  2024  07:00.  Chapter 17: The Play of the Cosmic Powers - 6. ============================================================================= Any kind of retributive or animalistic behaviour where values are wrested out of things and centred in one's own self, where people and objects of the world are treated as nothings in comparison with one's self, where we become the sole standard of judgement and everyone else a tool to ourselves, where such is the outlook of our life, we can imagine that tamas is predominant in us. When we want to exploit the world for the satisfaction of our own so-called outlook o...

============================================================================== BHAGAVAD GEETA  Chapter - 2 Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas) “Yoga of the SUPREME SELF” Sri Veda Vyasaji =============================================================================== Tuesday 20, Feb 2024 06:40. 2.7   ARJUNA’S SWADHARMA CLARIFIED  ( Slogas : 31-38, 8 No.)  Post - 58. ============================================================================== Slogam - 36: iii) Dishonour From One’s Enemies  "Avaachya-vaadaan cha bahoon vadishyanti tava ahitaah;   indatah tava saamarthyam tatah duhkhataram nu kim." ==================================================================================   Translation: 1.  Avaachya-vaadaan cha bahoon  =  And many words that should not be spoken 2.  vadishyanti tava ahitaah;  =  will be uttered by your enemies,  3. nindatah tava saamarthyam  =  caviling (belittling) your powers.  ...

=========================================================================== Monday 19, Feb 2024. 07:10. Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Slogam-26. ============================================================================== Slogam-26. "Atha chainam nitya-jatam nityam va manyase mritam tathapi tvam maha-baho naivam shochitum arhasi." ============================================================================== Word Meaning: atha—if, however;  cha—and;  enam—this soul;  nitya-jatam—taking constant birth;  nityam—always;  va—or;  manyase—you think;  mritam—dead;  tatha api—even then;  tvam—you;  maha-baho—mighty-armed one,  Arjun; na—not;  evam—like this;  śhochitum—grieve;  arhasi—befitting. =============================================================================== Translation: BG 2.26:  "If, however, you think that the self is subject to constant birth and death, O mighty-armed A...

=================================================================================== Sunday 18 Feb 2024 06:50. Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita-2. Post-13. =================================================================================== Chapter 5: The Karma Yoga Principle of the Bhagavadgita - 2. So duty as an action incumbent upon people is based on the consciousness of one's own being in relation to the circumstances of existence in this world. That is to say, Karma Yoga is based on Buddhi Yoga, as told in the language of the Bhagavadgita. When karma is based not on buddhi, proper understanding, then karma, action, becomes a meandering movement with no proper direction. You can move anywhere, in any direction, and do whatever you like, but that cannot be called right action. The philosophy of the Bhagavadgita is actually the science of right activity. That which is proper on your part is right action. But what is it that is proper on your part? The propri...

================================================================ Saturday 17,  Feb  2024 08:00.  Chapter 17: The Play of the Cosmic Powers - 5. =============================================================== The world of the tiger is different from the world of a human being. The instinct which impels the beast in the jungle is qualitatively different from the judgement that operates in a sage. The gunas of prakriti operate in different intensities, in different levels of evolution. The law of the jungle operates according to one level in which the gunas manifest themselves, and the law of human society works in another level. The law that reigns in the world of angels is based on a different standard altogether, which rises from a still higher stage of the evolution of the gunas. Tamas is the lowest level, and rajas is higher, but sattva is the highest. The reason why we regard these three gunas as higher and lower is due to the amount of reality which they express throu...

========================================================================= BHAGAVAD GEETA  Chapter - 2 Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas) “Yoga of the SUPREME SELF” Sri Veda Vyasaji ========================================================================== Thursday 15, Feb 2024 07:10. 2.7   ARJUNA’S SWADHARMA CLARIFIED  ( Slogas : 31-38, 8 No.)  Post - 57. ========================================================================== Slogam - 35:  ii) Dishonour from One’s Equals "Bhayaat ranaat uparatam mamsyante tvaam mahaarathaah yeshaam cha tvam bahumatah bhootvaa yaasyasi laaghavam." ======================================================================== Translation: 1.  Bhayaat ranaat uparatam  =  “He has withdrawn from battle out of fear !”  2.  mamsyante tvaam mahaarathaah;  =  Thus will great commanders think of you.  3. mamsyante tvaam mahaarathaah;  =   Thus will great commanders think of you.  4. bho...

================================================================ Wednesday 14, Feb 2024. 07:10. Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Slogam-25. ===================================== Slogam-25: "Avyakto ’yam achintyo ’yam avikaryo ’yam uchyate tasmadevam viditvainam nanushochitum arhasi." ================================================================ Word Meaning: avyaktah—unmanifested;  ayam—this soul;  achintyah—inconceivable;  ayam—this soul;  avikaryah—unchangeable;  ayam—this soul;  uchyate—is said;  tasmat—therefore;  evam—thus;  viditva—having known;  enam—this soul;  na—not;  anuśhochitum—to grieve;  arhasi—befitting. ================================================================ Translation: BG 2.25:  "The soul is spoken of as invisible, inconceivable, and unchangeable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body." ================================================================ ...