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The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 11-3: Swami Krishnananda.

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  ======================================================================================= Wednesday 18, June 2025, 09:00. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 11-3:  Chapter 11: Participating with the Intention of the Universe-3. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================= In the intensity of expression, in a differentiated manner, they look like various bodies – the physical body, the astral body, the causal body, or, as you might have heard, there are five layers of our individuality. These are called, in our Sanskrit language, annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, vijnanamaya and anandamaya koshas. The physical, the vital, the mental, the intellectual, and the causal layers are not five shirts put on by the Atman. They are a thick layer of cloud distributed in a variegated intensity of expression, as a cloud may cover the sun and we cannot say there are many kinds of cloud. Cloud ...

The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 11-2: Swami Krishnananda.

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  =========================================================================================== Saturday 07, June 2025, 07:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 11-2:  Chapter 11: Participating with the Intention of the Universe-2. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================ The energies – sattva, rajas and tamas – can arrange themselves in any form; a particular form that they take is called a world, and we are a part of the world. Inasmuch as our mind, our consciousness, our intelligence is tethered to this particular form only, we cannot visualise any world other than this particular world. Our consciousness is tied to this body so forcefully that we cannot imagine that there can be anything other than this body. It is the only reality. In a similar way, the perceptive consciousness gets accustomed, by a vehemence of association, with this particular picture presented by a given pattern of the ...

The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 11-1: Swami Krishnananda.

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  Chinmaya Mission: Wings aren’t meant to stay folded. The world needs your flight. Explore Youth Alone Can and awaken the immense strength you hold inside. The image here shows birds in the sky, Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda reminds us in a parable of a far greater journey that of the “space bird,” symbolizing the spirit’s power to rise beyond all boundaries. Take the next step. Own your  ======================================================================================================= Saturday 24, May 2025, 12:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:11-1. Chapter 11: Participating with the Intention of the Universe: 1. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ===================================================================================================== Chapter 11: Participating with the Intention of the Universe: 1. The Creator released His creation of beings with the injunction that everyone is ...

The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 10-6: Swami Krishnananda.

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  ====================================================================================== Wednesday 16, April 2025, 10:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:10-6. Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya-6. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti =================================================================================== Actually, what we call the world is nothing but an outsideness in the mind. If the outsideness has vanished and is not there, then there is no world. Imagine a condition where externality is lifted up. Let the mountains be there, let the trees be there, let the sun be there, let the moon be there, let the river be there, but externality is not there. The world ceases to be, in one second. The world is nothing but externality. It is not a substance. Inasmuch as externality is necessary for experience of the world, and externality itself is not a substance, the world is considered as unsubstantia...

The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 10-5: Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================== Sunday 23, March 2025, 11:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:10-5. Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya-4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ========================================================================================================== Now, what is sankhya? Without going into the metaphysical details of the classical Sankhya system, which is not essential for the present, we see what meaning we can have from the verse of the Bhagavadgita itself. The word 'prakriti' is used in the Bhagavadgita, which is one of the terms that occurs in the Sankhya system. The whole world is made up of prakriti. This prakriti is the substance of the whole world. By 'the world' we do not mean only this little Earth. The entire cosmos, the universe, is an expression of prakriti. This prakriti is constituted of certain forces, ...

The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 10-4: Swami Krishnananda.

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  ========================================================================================================== Thursday 06, February 2025, 09:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:10-4. Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya-4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ============================================================================================== Anyway, this physical body has a beginning and an end. However much we try to guard it by our imagined state of non-action, it will not survive. So why be so greedy about this body? Mrityu, death, should not deter us from entering into the field of duty, whatever that duty be as sanctioned in accordance with our stature in this world of nature and of human society. Now comes the third argument. Emotionally, you will be disturbed. If you are a renegade, a runaway, or a parasite, you would consider this life of degradation worse than death. Suppose that nobody wan...