Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

========================================================================================== Friday 23, Aug 2024, 06:40. Article Scriptures Introduction to the Bhagavadgita: Part 2. POST-5. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on March 17th, 1974) ========================================================================================== The beginning of the Bhagavadgita is thus an atmosphere of tension, conflict, and a coming together of two apparently irreconcilable forces. Dhritarashtra appears in the very beginning of the Bhagavadgita. He was born blind, as I mentioned. Here, when we go into the significant profundity that seems to be hidden in the message of the Gita, we also see that here is a spiritual message for us behind the historical context. The field of the Mahabharata is not merely outside, it is also inside. The Mahabharata epic is a book of life as a whole; it is not merely a narrative of an event that took place. The narrative is only an occasion for Vyasa to interpret the philoso...

========================================================================================== Thursday 22, Aug 2024. 06:20. Srimad Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam:58. The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Swami Mukundananda. ========================================================================================== Slogam - 58: "Yada sanharate chayam kurmo ’nganiva sarvashah indriyanindriyarthebhyas tasya prajna pratishthita." =========================================================================================== yada—when;  sanharate—withdraw;  cha—and;  ayam—this;  kurmah—tortoise;  angani—limbs;  iva—as;  sarvashah—fully;  indriyani—senses;  indriya-arthebhyas—from the sense objects;  tasya—his;  prajnn—divine wisdom; pratishthita—fixed in. =========================================================================================== Translation: BG 2.58:  "One who is able to withdraw the senses from their objects, just as ...

===================================================================================== Wednesday 21, Aug 2024, 06:20. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 8: The Stages of Yoga-4. Swami Krishnananda Post-46. ===================================================================================== Asmad ajnanasanbhutam hrtstham jnanasinatmanah:  Therefore Arjuna, rend asunder, break this darkness of ignorance that is veiling your consciousness. You have to rend asunder this veil by the effort of your own mind. Here is a very concentrated statement on what Yoga practice is. More details will be told in the Sixth Chapter. By Yoga, by jnana, by attainment of true Selfhood, you pierce through the veil of ignorance which makes you feel always that you are a finite individual, not knowing the fact that there is an infinitude that is around you in the form of this very vast space-time cosmos. This space-time cosmos itself is your larger self. Your true being is as wide as this vast space. Can y...

====================================================================================== BHAGAVAD GEETA Chapter - 2 Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas) “Yoga of the SUPREME SELF” Sri Veda Vyasaji ====================================================================================== Monday 19, Aug 2024, 06:20. Discourse 2 | Yoga of the Supreme Self   2.12   THE MAN OF STEADY WISDOM  (Slogas 54-67, 14 No. Slogam - 62: Q3: Without Matpara – the Slow Descent  Post - 86. ======================================================================================= Slogam - 62: Q3: Without Matpara – the Slow Descent  1  Dhyaayatah vishayaan pumsah =  When a man thinks of objects  2  sangah teshu upajaayate; = attachment for them arises;  3  sangaat sanjaayate kaamah = from attachment desire is born;  4  kaamaat krodhah abhi-jaayate; = from desire arises anger ;  =======================================================================...

======================================================================================= Sunday 18, Aug 2024, 06:20. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita – A Synthesis of Thought and Action-4.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) ======================================================================================= The problem of Arjuna was a sentimental and an emotional one, sentiment and emotion having overpowered his understanding, preventing him from thinking in the right direction and urging him to take a decision contrary to what was justifiable under the circumstances. How are we to decide upon the yes or no of an action? Is an action right or wrong; how are we to know? This is the question that the Bhagavadgita tries to answer. Whenever we embark upon a line of action, we are likely to think that it is the right course. Each one thinks that he or she is right and others who oppose that line of action are wrong. Now, is this a permissible course of thinking? C...

Chinmaya Mission Ahmedabad: Happy Independence Day!! Jay Bharat!! 🇮🇳. ======================================================================================= Saturday 17, Aug 2024, 06:20. Article Scripture The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 4. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on October 14, 1984) ======================================================================================== Abhyasa vairagyabhyam tan-nirodhah (Y.S. 1.12) says a sutra of Patanjali, and we have a similar statement in the Bhagavadgita.  Abhyasena tu kaunteya vairagyena ca grhyate (BG 6.35): By practice and renunciation you shall attain success. Abhyasa is the repeated accustoming of oneself to a single method of living. We should have a uniform way of living every day, and our moods, our ways, our occupations, as far as possible, should not vary from day to day. But unfortunately, our psychological moods change from moment to moment, distractions come in every moment of time, and a uniform ...

========================================================================================== Friday 16, Aug 2024, 06:40. Article Scriptures Introduction to the Bhagavadgita: Part 2. POST-4. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on March 17th, 1974) ========================================================================================== Bhishma said, “Well, it is a very simple matter. You have a large army of eleven akshauhinis; the poor Pandavas have much less, only seven. But as you have put this question to me, there are certain things which I would like to tell you about the merits, or the relative strength, of the two armies. Strength does not depend only on number, O Duryodhana. Strength also depends upon moral force, righteousness that is behind the action and, ultimately, the factor of providence also comes, which, in my opinion, has been favouring the Pandavas all the time, for reasons which should be clear even to you. You may ask me what is my strength, on which perhaps you depend entir...