Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Friday, June 17, 2022. 16:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-6. ===================================================================== juna looked at the world with the five senses. This is not Sankhya, as the Bhagavadgita tells us. Arjuna, you have to look upon the world with the Sankhya knowledge. The Second Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is an exposition of the Sankhya understanding that is to become the basis of our attitude towards the world. And without this Sankhya, yoga will not come. Yoga is the practical application of Sankhya or, in the terminology of the Bhagavadgita, Sankhya is knowledge, yoga is action. So unless you have a knowledge of the nature of the world, you cannot act in the world properly. You will make mistakes in every one of your approaches. Now, this Sankhya which the Bhagavadgita speaks of is the knowledge of...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Friday, June 03, 2022. 19:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-5. ======================================================================== The Upanishads speak of the ultimate truth of things. Yo vai bhūmā tat sukham: The Plenum is felicity. And what is the Plenum? What is this Bhuma which is the source of real bliss?  yo vai bhuma tatsukham nalpe sukhamasti bhumaiva sukham bhuma tveva vijijnasitavya iti bhumanam bhagavo vijijnasa iti || 7.23.1 || Meaning of the mantram : 1. Sanatkumāra said: ‘That which is infinite is the source of happiness. There is no happiness in the finite. Happiness is only in the infinite. But one must try to understand what the infinite is.’ Nārada replied, ‘Sir, I want to clearly understand the infinite’. Word-for-word explanation: Yaḥ vai bhūmā, = that which is infinite [lit., big, or the biggest];...