Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

========================================================================= Wednesday, 27 Dec 2023 07:20. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 2. ======================================================================== The aim is the fulfilment of the system of practice, but it is preceded by the important conditioning factor of the ideological structure in one's own consciousness. The ultimate realisation of the aim is the concretisation of the theoretical foundation already laid in one's consciousness.  The Absolute Idea is the idea of there being such a thing called the Absolute, the one not being separable from the other. Your idea of the existence of the Absolute is inseparable from the content thereof. This idea, which is so vast, has to get tagged on to the idea of the external object called the universe. Then there is a necessity for the union of this idea of the Absolute with the content thereof, namely, the physical universe. This union is Absolute expe...

Chinmaya Tarangini Matsyanarayana: What's NEW @ Chinmaya Tarangini? "Geeta Ratham" standing tall at Chinmaya Tarangini all set for 2017. The Geeta Ratham is a tribute to our revered Geeta Acharyas - Bhagavan Shri Krishna, Sri Veda Vyasa, Adi Shankaracharya and Swami Chinmayananda with five horses pulling it. Begin 2017 with an auspicious note by taking darshan of the Geeta Ratham - a reminder to live the Geeta way of life with the GPS of Guru Parampara and Shastra. — with Swami Chinmayananda and 4 others at Chinmaya Tarangini Matsyanarayana. =========================================================== Friday, 22 Dec 2023 07:06. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 1. ================================================================ Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life-1. Many a seeker on the spiritual path is often unintelligently enthusiastic with a misapprehension of the nature of spiritual life and the way to the attainment of the goal. Si...

================================================================ Thursday, 21 Dec 2023 07:00. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 7. ================================================================ The pressure is something very interesting. From where does this pressure come? It comes from the ocean of life which seeks fullest expression through the limitation of our finite personality. The ocean wants to find itself in the river, in the pond. This little experience of ours through the senses and the mind is sought for as an instrument for the fullest expression of the whole power that is behind the tree of life. Any kind of completeness of experience is the same as happiness. When we search for objects in this world, we are trying to search for a type of conscious experience which will introduce into ourselves a wholeness of being. We are now partial expressions. When the object we need is outside us, that unity of feeling is absent. We are unhappy because a part of our life is o...

Chinmaya Mission : On November 26, 2023, Chinmaya Mission Houston (CMH) witnessed the inaugural Kumbhabhisekam ceremony of Saumyakasi Sivalaya.  The festivities spanned several days, featuring symbolic rituals and a Dwadasa Jyotirlinga Yatra conducted by over 400 Bala Vihar children.  This ritual harked back to a tradition initiated during the Sivalaya's inauguration 16 years prior. During his address, Pujya Acarya Gaurang Nanavaty traced the inception of Pujya Gurudev's vision, while the Consul General of India in Houston acknowledged CMH's significant role in preserving Hindu culture.  The culmination on Sunday, marked by homas and a Dwadasa Jyotirlinga Yatra, saw devotees gracefully participating in the abhishekam ceremony, facilitated by meticulous arrangements. ================================================================ Saturday, 16 Dec 2023 07:20. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 6. ================================================================ Ishvara...

================================================================ Monday, 11 Dec 2023 07:20. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 5. ================================================================ The mystery is here, that God in His unified comprehensiveness is in us; He is wholly present, not only partially, in spite of the fact that we are partial expressions. The part contains the whole in wholeness. This is the mystery. We cannot understand how the wholeness of the whole can be in a part. We never see such a feature anywhere in this world. No drop in the ocean can contain the whole ocean. But the whole of us is present in every cell of our body, though biologically, physically, physiologically, anatomically, each cell is only a part of the whole of the body. The body that we speak of is a comprehensive, living, vital power. That comprehensiveness of the vitality in us is present in each cell of the body, so that by seeing one cell we can know the whole person. So is the complet...

=========================================================== Wednesday, 06 Dec 2023 07:10. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 4. ================================================================ Now we are entering into a new section of analysis of this totality of experience called the tree of life. Yesterday we had occasion to observe that the sap of the tree of life grows in the form of the tree, and the seed will not be content to remain as a seed. The baby grows into the adult, etc. We were wondering why this expression should be there at all. Why should there be growth and evolution and movement in any direction? It is the intention of the Original Will to find itself as the one in the many. The oneness is present, and the manyness is also there. The presence of the oneness of the Original Will of the seed of life keeps these varieties of forms in unison, in collaboration with one another, just as the comprehensiveness of the tree keeps all the branches and the leaves, etc., i...

============================================================ Friday, 01 Dec 2023 07:00. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 3. ================================================================ 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 completely cut off from the vital root essence, the parent of all things, which is sustaining us here—mātā dhātā pitāmahaḥ (B.G. 9.17)—but we are completely forgetful of this great sustaining power. Well, that one thing is bad enough; but a worse thing is that we are clinging to what is not there, an externalis...