Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

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

======================================================================================== Sunday 17, November 2024, 06:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-5&6. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-5&6 The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== The three gunas, sattva, rajas and tamas, manifest themselves as the various limbs of the subtle body. What are these limbs of the subtle body? They are many in number. For instance, the character of your intellect, the manner of the performance and the action of your intellect, is also decided by the proportion of the distribution of these three forces in your personality. The preponderance of any one of these sattva, rajas or tamas gunas in your intellect, in your understanding, will decide the extent of your understanding. Hence, it does not mean that everyone can understan...

======================================================================================== Saturday 09, November 2024, 06:15. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-4. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== In one place the Gita says that there is nothing on earth or in heaven which is free from these inner constituents called sattva, rajas and tamas. Everything that is living, non-living, visible, invisible, empirical or transcendent is constituted of these properties sattva, rajas and tamas. There is nothing in the whole of creation which has not these three ingredients making up its constitution. Hence, each person is also an embodiment of these three gunas. What are these gunas? Sattva, rajas, tamas – what do these imply? What is meant by sattva, rajas, tamas? It is an impulsion, a te...

======================================================================================== Saturday 02, November 2024, 07:00. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-3. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-1. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Each person has a duty in this world. Now, this is a very important point which is brought out in many a way through the injunctions occurring in a variegated manner in different verses of the Bhagavadgita. Everyone has a duty. There is no one who can be free from duty. But what is duty? This was the question. In the beginning itself it was mentioned, “I cannot understand what my duty is. I am floundering. I am completely upset with my very basic understanding. What is my obligation at this moment?” Now, this is not an easy issue that is raised by a person. You will find that even the ...