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======================================================================================== Monday 14, October 2024, 06:15. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity: Chapter 8: The Realism and Idealism of the Bhagavadgita-4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Our personality is made up of certain levels. The personality of ours looks like an abstract thing. It is not necessarily the physical body. It is abstract in the sense that a human being is also some abstract principle, finally. We cannot say that we are a body, though it looks like we are that only. All the values that we admire in life are not necessarily material and physical, because we have seen that a materially well-placed and physically well-built personality is not necessarily a complete personality, not a satisfied personality. Our involvements are the levels of our pers

======================================================================================== Monday 07, October 2024, 07:00. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity: Chapter 8: The Realism and Idealism of the Bhagavadgita-4 The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== The student has to approach the teacher in this manner. This student should not think he already knows something which the teacher also knows. If that is the case, to that extent he will not be submissive, and he will not be receptive. A deconditioning of the mind is necessary before we try to learn anything. We should not have preconceived notions in our heads and go with some kind of boasted knowledge while we are students. “Empty thyself and I shall fill thee.” But if you have already come filled, what can I give you? One of the conditions of a good student, a studentship or a di

======================================================================================== Thursday 03, October, 2024, 07:00. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : Chapter 8: The Realism and Idealism of the Bhagavadgita-3 The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Some of the extra-cosmic enthusiasms of religious phases today become a kind of anathema to realistically minded, socially minded, politically minded outlooks in life, not because religion is bad, but a religion that is unrelated to facts of life loses its meaning. And if there is any outlook of the religious ideal which plants itself firmly on even the lowest values of reality, we have here in the Bhagavadgita a grand consummation of that integrated outlook. It is a friend of the poor, and it is also a friend of the Supreme Creator of the universe. From the uttermost poverty of

======================================================================================== Saturday 28, September, 2024, 06:20. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : Chapter 8: The Realism and Idealism of the Bhagavadgita-2 The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Chapter 8: The Realism and Idealism of the Bhagavadgita-2. How does the Bhagavadgita begin? It begins with a most prosaic atmosphere of a political situation, which is the grossest involvement of the human being in public affairs. It is the least that one can do; some people say it is the worst that one can do, and yet it is a reality in its own way. A thing may be the worst, but does it exist? As long as it exists, it enjoys a degree of reality. The worst thing does not become unreal merely because it is worst from some point of view, yet it is the ground on which the edifice

Chinmaya Mission:     In 1991, Pujya Swami Chinmayananda held the first historic Bhagavad Gita Marathon Camp at Chinmaya Krishnalaya, California, covering all 18 chapters. Thirty years later, Swami Swaroopananda revived this tradition, continuing the detailed study of each verse. The multi-year retreat, set to conclude in 2026 to commemorate Chinmaya Mission’s 75th anniversary, has been spiritually enriching. In 2022, Swamiji covered the first six chapters, followed by chapters 7-9 in 2023, and this year focused on chapters 10-12. Participants explored Bhagavan Sri Krishna’s divine glories, His universal form, and the two paths of devotion. The retreat was a deeply immersive spiritual experience, offering participants a range of activities designed to enhance their understanding and connection to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita. Each day began with serene guided meditations led by Br. Soham Chaitanya and Swami Ishwarananda, helping participants center themselves and open their minds

======================================================================================== Monday 16, September, 2024, 05:59. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : Chapter 7: Can War Ever be Justified? - 7. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Now, this is a human question which was humanly answered because we are always faced with some counter-correlative of a position whenever an issue is raised. Every issue has a counter issue. You cannot have an absolute issue in this world, and you do not know how to correlate these two sides of an issue where two sides are always there for every issue. When there are two sides of an issue, which side are you going to take? And how do you know which is the right side? The question of the Bhagavadgita is: How do you know what is right? I will close by quoting an interesting suggestion made by an