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Canons of a Perfect Life - 7. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Saturday, December 31, 2022. 07:00. Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita-7. ========================================================================= The Blessed Lord said: ========================================================================= 61.The Characteristics of Lethargy and Torpidity Are Ignorance, Confusion, Inaction and Blundering : *Darkness, inertness, heedlessness and delusion – these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjuna. (XIV.13) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62.Purity Leads to Higher Divine Worlds, Impurity to Rebirth As a Human Being, and Lassitude to Embodiment in Sub-human Species : *If the embodied one meets with death when Sattva is predominant, then he attains to the spotless worlds of the knowers of the

Canons of a Perfect Life - 6. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, December 27, 2022. 07:00. Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita-6. ========================================================================= The Blessed Lord said: ========================================================================= 51.Matter and Spirit : *This body, O Arjuna, is called the field; he who knows it is called the knower of the field by those who know them. (XIII.1) *Do thou also know Me as the knower of the field in all fields, O Arjuna. Knowledge of both the field and the knower of the field is considered by Me to be the real knowledge. (XIII.2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52.The Structure of the Universe : *The great elements, egoism, intellect, and also the unmanifested Nature, the ten senses and the

Canons of a Perfect Life - 5. Swami Krishnananda.

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 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Friday, December 23, 2022. 07:00. Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita-5. ========================================================================= The Blessed Lord said: ========================================================================= 41.God Treats All Equally : *The same am I to all beings: to Me there is none hateful or dear;but those who worship Me with devotion are in Me and I am also in them. (IX.29) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 42.Understanding, Appreciation, Clarity of Thought, Forgiveness, Truthfulness, Self-control, the Instinctive Impulses in Man, Compassion, Equilibrium of Attitude, Contentment, Charitable Feeling, and Such Qualities Are Aspects of God's Being : *Intellect, wisdom, non-delusion, forgiveness, t

Canons of a Perfect Life - 4. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= ======================================================================== Monday, December 19, 2022. 07:00. Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita-4. ========================================================================= The Blessed Lord said: ========================================================================= 31.Self-help Is the Road to Achievement : One should raise oneself by one's Self alone; let not one lower oneself; for the Self alone is the friend of oneself, and the Self alone is the enemy of oneself. (VI.5) The Self is the friend of the self of him by whom the self has been conquered by the Self; but to the unsubdued self the Self will act as a hostile enemy. (VI.6) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32.Moderation in Life Is Yoga : Verily, Yoga is not possible for him who eats too much, no

Canons of a Perfect Life - 3. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= ======================================================================== Thursday, December 15, 2022. 09:00. Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita-3. ========================================================================= The Blessed Lord said: ========================================================================= 21.Set an Ideal Example to Others : *Whatsoever a great man does, that other men also do; whatever he sets up as the standard, that the world follows. (III.21) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22.Do Not Disturb the Faith of Others : *Let no wise one unsettle the mind of ignorant people who are attached to action; he should engage them in all actions, himself fulfilling them with devotion. (III.26) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Canons of a Perfect Life - 2. Swami Krishnananda

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 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Sunday, December 11, 2022. 0700. Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita-2. ========================================================================= The Blessed Lord said: ========================================================================= 11.Duty Is Not to Be Confused with Personal Benefit : *Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits; let not the fruits of the action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction. (II.47) 12.A Balanced Outlook Is Called Yoga : *Perform action, O Arjuna, being steadfast in Yoga, abandoning attachment and balanced in success and failure. Evenness of mind is called Yoga. (II.48) 13.Treat Pleasure and Pain As Equal : *Having made pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat the same, engage thou in battle (for the sake of duty); thus thou shalt not incur sin. (II.3