Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

================================================================================== 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, ...

  ========================================================================================================== 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...

====================================================================================== Wednesday 29, January 2025, 09:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:10-3. Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya-2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti =============================================================================== Sometimes another illustration is brought out to make the matter clear. You must have seen a potter's wheel. Potters have a wheel by which they manufacture an earthen pot. The wheel is turned with the power of the hand. It is pushed with a particular momentum, and once it is pushed, it shall spin for some time. Now, the time for which it will be independently moving without being touched by the hand will depend upon the intensity of the push given to it. In a similar manner, the length of life that we will live in this world will depend upon the push that has been given by our desire to exist in this wo...

Chinmaya Mission:  Bala Vihar Kids from Chinmaya Mission, Portland, showcased their compassion and culinary skills by preparing a heartfelt meal for 100 individuals at the Transition Projects’ River Navigation Center, serving the homeless community. The menu featured Mexican Vegetable Soup, Veggie and Tofu Tacos, and Oat Energy Bars, thoughtfully prepared to nourish and comfort. Additionally, the children extended their kindness to seniors by creating 22 beautifully crafted care cards for a local senior center, spreading joy and warmth through their efforts. ============================================================================================== Monday 20, January 2025, 07:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:10-2. Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya-2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti =============================================================================================== We have a social du...

======================================================================================== Thursday 12, December 2024, 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:10-1. Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya-1. The interdependence of human society was one of the points which was taken up as a position to substantiate human responsibility in respect of all humanity. The fact of interdependence of human society would enable us to conceive humanity as a single person. All mankind is one man, as it were. All persons constitute one person. This conclusion would follow from the appreciation of the fact that the units forming human society are interdependent, interdeterminant and interconditioning – we may say, even interexistent. Thus comes the necessity on the part of eac...

======================================================================================== Monday 02, December 2024, 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-8. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-8. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== The great Lord does not go so deep in the beginning, but it becomes necessary to go deep later on when the patient is not listening. So, in the beginning he suffices with, “Okay. As a social individual at least, you have to contribute your might.” I shall revert for two or three minutes to the point of this classification of society which the ancient masters classified as Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Sudra. We have to be very careful in understanding what these terms mean. They mean the obligations of a person, and not the person himself or herself. We sometimes mistake the obligatio...

======================================================================================== Monday 25, November 2024, 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-7. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-7. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== The duty you are expected to perform is whatever you are capable of contributing to the welfare of the whole. Here again, a little analogy of the human body will be good. You do not expect the leg to think as the brain thinks. You do not expect the head to walk. You do not expect the nose to see, or the ear to smell. It is expected of each organ to perform a particular function. Now, the difference in the performance of these functions does not imply any kind of ethical or moral superiority, or even a social difference. Which part of your body is inferior, and which part is superior? Eve...