Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

24/02/2017. Chapter 19: True Knowledge : 3. It is strange and very interesting to note that in this delineation of the character of the object, even the so-called individual is included. We are all objects in the true sense of the term. We can see our own bodies. This body is an object of sense perception, and it is constituted of the same matter as everything else in this world. The pure subject is invisible—though it is embedded in us, we are unconscious of its existence. We live in a world of objects. We have befriended objects, converted ourselves into objects, and we treat ourselves as objects rather than as pure subjects. Hence the characteristics of objects infect us, and we suffer the pains of life due to the objectivity that is present in us. The sorrows through which we have to pass in our lives are not the consequences of the subjectivity that is in us, but rather of the objectivity in which we are involved and which we, however wrongly, identify with our tr...

15/02/2017. Chapter 19: True Knowledge : 2. Now in this connection we have to go into some detail as to the nature of the object, the subject, and that which reigns supreme beyond both—this is the principal subject of this chapter. The so-called object of knowledge is a vast panorama of experience. The whole astronomical universe is constituted of the five gross elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether—which form the entire world of physicality. The causative factor of these five elements, known in the Samkhya language as the tanmatras, is on the objective side. From the side of the experiences there is the jiva—the individual with sense organs, mind and intellect—lodged in the body complex, operating through love and hatred and filled with the notion of egoist, cutting itself off from the object, but nevertheless a part of the object world. Swami Krishnananda   To be continued  ....

09/02/2017. Chapter 19: True Knowledge : 1. The meaning of the thirteenth chapter of the Bhagavadgita is the subject of our discussion now. While all the eighteen chapters of the Gita touch upon almost all themes in the practice of yoga, there is a special emphasis laid on action in the third chapter, on meditation in the sixth chapter, on devotion in the eleventh chapter and on knowledge in the thirteenth chapter—corresponding to the faculties of cognition, volition, emotion and reason. There is a special importance attached to the subject of the thirteenth chapter, inasmuch as it analyses the Samkhya principles or categories of cosmic evolution in the light of the supremacy of Brahman, the Absolute. The Samkhya philosophy distinguishes between prakriti and purusha, or the field and the knower of the field, as they are designated here in this chapter. Matter and consciousness are, we may say, the object and the pure subject. In this chapter, at the very outset, we ar...

02/02/2017. Chapter -18: Fix Your Mind on Me Alone-13. 1. Avibhaktam ca bhutesu vibhaktam iva ca sthitam,  ( Gita: CH-13. SLO-16.) bhuta-bhartr ca tat jneyam grasisnu prabhavisnu ca. 2.  Jyotisam api taj jyotis tamasah param uchyate, ( Gita: CH-13. SLO-17.) jnanam jneyam jnana-gamyam hrdi sarvasya vishtitam. This grand description goes with the declaration that this great Reality is indivisible—it cannot be separated into parts. It cannot be partitioned in any manner, yet it appears as if it is divided among the objects of sense, which are different one from the other. 1. Avibhaktam ca bhutesu : - Like space which is undivided everywhere and yet it may appear to be divided by the various vessels or pots, glasses, etc. which carry little spaces within themselves, though the space is unaffected by these so-called delimitation thereof by the presence of walls and vessels and the like, so is God’s Being unaffected by the divisions which we see through the ...