Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

========================================================================= ======================================================================== Monday, October 31, 2022. 06:00. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness-4. ========================================================================= Chapter 15 – Purushothama yogam : The Yogam of the Supreme Divine Personality :  Lessons from the Analogy of a Banyan tree : ========================================================================= The variety and the multitudinousness of the leaves of a tree, for instance, is no bar to the relatedness among themselves in the form of this tree. So is this variety of life. The division and the difference, the gulf and the variety in the form of experience of objects, do not deter us from asking for a unity behind them. That is the reason why we ask for collaboration, unity, solidarity of people. We are urged towards working for a commonness of purpose. We do service, we have a feeling of affe...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Sunday, October 30, 2022. 06:00. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness-3. ========================================================================= Chapter 15 – Purushothama yogam : The Yogam of the Supreme Divine Personality :  Lessons from the Analogy of a Banyan tree : ======================================================================= The avarana, as it is called in Vedantic parlance, is a screen over the reality which keeps us out of touch with it. That is what is known as ignorance. We are not only screened away from what is there but are presented with what is not there, so that we are made a double fool. Not only are we ignorant of the presence of God, but we are conscious of the presence of a world outside, so we are deceived in two ways. There is a double deception taking place at the same time. Not only are we complet...

 ======================================================================== Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF)   Deepavali has always been a joyous celebration of light and love. The entire CIF campus was lit with beautiful lamps by devotees present in Adi Sankara Nilayam. Devotees from across the globe had made offerings of Dipam and Chuttuvillaku – lighting of lamps around the Ayyappa temple complex and everyone participated in kindling the lamps. At 6:30 pm IST, the Shodashopachara Mahalakshmi Puja was performed by the purohit Sri Sathish; many watched the Puja online on Chinfo Channel, YouTube. Everyone was immersed in devotion and gratitude to Maa Mahalakshmi invoking. ======================================================================== Wednesday, October 26, 2022. 06:00. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness-2. ========================================================================= Chapter 15 – Purushothama yogam : The Yogam of the Supreme Divine Personalit...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Saturday, October 22, 2022. 06:00. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness-1. ========================================================================= Chapter 15 – Purushothama yogam : The Yogam of the Supreme Divine Personality :  Lessons from the Analogy of a Banyan tree : ======================================================================= The mystery of life is explained, as we noted yesterday, in the first five verses of the Fifteenth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. The mystery lies primarily in the fact that the way in which this tree of life grows is a little different from the way in which human minds work. This is the reason why human comprehension cannot fathom the depths of the extendedness and the functioning of the movements of this cosmic tree. Just as the branching of the various limbs of the tree is conditioned by t...

 ======================================================================== ====================================================================== Tuesday, October 18, 2022. 06:30. Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life - 8. ========================================================================= Chapter 15 – Purushothama yogam : The Yogam of the Supreme Divine Personality :  Lessons from the Analogy of a Banyan tree : ======================================================================= The Bhagavadgita gives the answer. We may have been studying, reading chapters of the Gita, but it is difficult for many people to find time to go into the nature of the answer the Bhagavadgita gives to the various queries that arise from our minds. Otherwise, we would be reading the Bhagavadgita like reading the British Pharmacopoeia from the first page to the last page. It may describe all the drugs that are available anywhere in the world—their composition, their character, and ...

 ========================================================================= ======================================================================== Friday, October 14, 2022. 06:30. Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life - 7. ========================================================================= Chapter 15 – Purushothama yogam : The Yogam of the Supreme Divine Personality :  Lessons from the Analogy of a Banyan tree : ========================================================================= We are told by the Upanishads and scriptures of this character that the One willed to be many; the seed intended to become the tree. This intention of the seed to become the tree is the desire of life. What we call desire is nothing but the urge of the seed to become the tree.  Why does the seed wish to become the tree?  Why should it not exist as a seed alone?  What is wrong with being merely a seed?  And what does the seed gain by becoming a tree?  Th...

 ======================================================================= ========================================================================= Sunday, October 09, 2022. 06:30. Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life - 6. ========================================================================= Chapter 15 – Purushothama yogam : The Yogam of the Supreme Divine Personality :  Lessons from the Analogy of a Banyan tree : ======================================================================= Visualising this horror of life due to which we seem to have no voice in anything whatsoever in this world, thinkers such as Schopenhauer in the West pictured a dark form before us, and said life is nothing but hell: If you want to see hell, be born into this world. This is the utter despair that sometimes made these thinkers write poems such as The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam which says everything is wind passing; everything is despair, sorrow, straw, sapless and essenceless; now it...