Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

==================================================================================================== Saturday 02, May 2026, 06:40. Books:  Bhagavad Gita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 13-2: Swami Krishnananda. An Exposition of the First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Discourse 13: The Supremely Friendly Power:2. Swami Krishnananda. ==================================================================================================== Human capacity has a touch of egoism behind it. Our confidence that we can do something is not dissociated from an element of self-confidence, which is identifiable with our bodily individuality. Instances which are galore in the epics and the Puranas make out that God does help, but only when His help is necessary. It is necessary to feel the unavoidable presence of the Almighty in a given circumstance. If we feel that His presence may not be necessary, then that incarnation may not take place. Do you sometimes feel that His presence i...

===================================================================================================== Saturday 04, April 2026, 18:30. Books: Bhagavad Gita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 13-2: Swami Krishnananda. An Exposition of the First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Discourse 13: The Supremely Friendly Power:2. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================================== This very image of Nara-Narayana or Krishna-Arjuna as friends is given to us in another form in a passage of the Veda, and also in a passage which is repeated in the Mundaka Upanishad, that there are two birds perching on the branch of a tree. One bird is very busy with the delicious fruits of the tree, and the other bird is minding not as to what is there at all, not eating, not concerning itself with anything. The unfortunate part of it is that this busy bird eating the sweet plums is not even aware that the other bird is there nearby...

===================================================================================================== Monday 05, February 2026, 05:30. Books: Bhagavad Gita An Exposition of the First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 13-1: Swami Krishnananda. Discourse 13: The Supremely Friendly Power:1. Swami Krishnananda. ====================================================================================================== The first three chapters of the Bhagavadgita have a more or less technical character, and they are analytic in nature. Ethical, moral, philosophical are the issues that are described and discussed, and the themes get more and more pronounced in seriousness as the teaching proceeds further and further. And, at the same time, it also becomes more and more involved in different kinds of issues, almost making us feel that we are not fully confident as to where we are placed. Our placement in the context of the teachings seems to be difficu...

=================================================================================================== Tuesday 13, January 2025, 19:40. Books: Bhagavad Gita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 12-5: An Exposition of the First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Discourse 12: Control of the Senses -5. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================== So, our instincts need not necessarily be visible to us. In our conscious life we may not know that they exist at all. I am very fine. What is wrong with me? But the disturbances in the mind, that which we call the tossing of the mind, the inability to concentrate, a feeling of fatigue even in sitting for a while calmly in meditation and an inward restlessness that one feels are outer indications of an inward presence of these potential instincts which are irrational. These prevent us from putting this knowledge into practice. But there is a way out. All problems ar...

=================================================================================================== Tuesday 11, November 2025, 07:00. Books: Bhagavad Gita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 12-4:  Chapter 12: Control of the Senses: 4. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================== These are explained in greater detail in the sutras of Patanjali. We have a potential condition; we have a tentatively thinned-out, weakened condition; we have a sleeping condition; and we have an obviously manifest condition. Four conditions of instincts are mentioned in Patanjali. So when instincts do not obviously and actively operate outside like a soldier fighting in the field, it need not mean they are not there. They can be sleeping. A sleeping snake is nevertheless a serpent. A potential thief is a thief, though he is not actually thieving at this moment. There can be an emaciated snake. An emaciated snake which has not eat...

=================================================================================================== Saturday 18, October 2025, 09:00. Books: Bhagavad Gita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 12-3:  Chapter 12: Control of the Senses: 3. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================================ Where are we actually standing now, inward or outward? Sometimes we are pulled inward, sometimes outward. Now, mostly viewing things in the light of what we see in humanity at this moment of the twentieth century, we may say there is an extroversion of attitude, an impulsion to evaluate everything in life in terms of outward appearance and external arrangement. There is no inclination of any person to view things in terms of an inwardness of values. “So, Arjuna, I am now going to answer your question, after having told you something as an introduction. This is the truth of the matter. Having known everything, ye...

==================================================================================================== Tuesday 16, Sep 2025, 06:20. Books: Bhagavad Gita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 12-2:  Chapter 12: Control of the Senses: 2. Swami Krishnananda. ==================================================================================================== We are said to be good only when we are in tune with Truth, and the percentage of our atonement with Truth is the percentage of our goodness. Truth is, in a way, an inwardness of fact. It is hidden in the cave of the heart. This is how we are sometimes told about it in the Upanishads and in other scriptures. The secret of dharma is hidden in the cave. The secret of virtue, righteousness, veracity, Truth or Reality is in the cave of the heart. The heart of things is the truth of things. The heart of a person is not the fleshy heart. We sometimes refer to 'the heart of the matter'. What is the heart of the matter? It is n...