Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF): Uttama-purusa, as Bhagavan Ram is fondly called, lead a life that teaches us ways to lead a life of perfection and integrity. Ramayana gives a beautiful glimpse at the leadership and life affirming qualities of Bhagavan Rama.  In this enlightening discourse, Swami Ramakrishnananda expounds the nuances of Valmiki's Ramayana.  Swamiji refers to 2 epics based on Valmiki's Ramayana,  Kamba Ramayana composed by Poet Kamba during the 12th century & Raghuvamsa written by Kalidasa in the 15th century. Listen in, be inspired and lead a life filled with honesty and integrity at  http://chinfo.org/.../f580db38-3030-4afe-88e6-91d483c7881d =============================================================== Wednesday 31, Jan 2024 07:10. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 9. =============================================================== Our deeper levels in the inner layers of our psyche are connected to subtle objects of...

================================================================ Friday, 26 Jan 2024 07:25. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 8. ================================================================ The thought of God is the real axe that strikes at the very root of this tree of phenomenal experience. We cannot find any other axe to cut at the root of this tree. Axes made of steel or iron will not be able to cut this tree. Because this tree is not physical, a physical axe will not work here. It is a cosmic tree. It is a tree that is spread out everywhere, and perhaps its roots are also everywhere. Inasmuch as this is the situation, the weapon that we have to employ in laying low this tree of life should also be equally powerful. It is not possible to overcome this illusion of phenomen. It is impossible of crossing and impossible of handling. With the furthest stretch of imagination and the greatest of effort conceivable, it is beyond us. But, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām...

Swami Udit Chaithanya: 28/11/2019 It was amazing to watch the children doing Vidya Pooja with so much of devotion on the last day at Vairamkode. =============================================================== Sunday, 21 Jan 2024 06:45. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 7. ================================================================ The forms of experience which are the objects of the mind are the bondages which confine everyone to the processes of life called samsara, which is equated with suffering. This is the tree which the Bhagavadgita expects us to cut at the very root—the tree of phenomenal experience. Asanga is supposed to be the methodology to be adopted. We should not be attached to anything. Leaving aside the other more intricate teachings of the systems of yoga for the time being, we may take for our present consideration what this anasakti means. It appears to us that this is hammered into our minds again and again by the Bhagavadgita. We cannot deta...

================================================================ Tuesday, 16 Jan 2024 06:45. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 6. ================================================================ Therefore, emotional relationships with objects are tantamount to a perpetual sorrow in the beginning, in the middle, as well as in the end. That is why it is called klishta or sorrow-giving, grief-ridden. This is the crudest form of mental connection with an object. That is bad enough, and no one would endorse the presence of such an attachment in respect of things. But there is a very subtle condition which the system of yoga lays before us. Even if we have no emotional attachment to an object, we may be bound by the very consciousness of its presence. There is a wall in front of us. I cannot say that any one of us is emotionally attached to this wall. None of us has an affection towards this wall as a mother may have towards her child, for instance. But we are aware that ...

Swami Udit Chaithanya: Shivaratri Celebration Vrindavan (UP) Veda students of Vrindavan chanted Rudram Chamakam (Yajurveda).  Everyone who participated in the Shivalinga in the temple was fortunate enough to perform abhishekam and flower offering.  100 poor students were honored by giving food and food. ================================================================ Thursday, 11 Jan 2024 06:45. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 5. ================================================================ When we think of detachment, we generally conceive of physically moving out of our house, going a few thousand miles away, and then it is detachment. This is the crudest form of the notion of non-attachment in the field of spiritual life. But our bondage does not consist in our physical location in any place. It is not the house that binds us. It is not the land on which we are seated that is our problem. Nothing visible to the eyes as a physical content can be rega...

=============================================================== Saturday, 06 Jan 2024 07:30. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 4. ================================================================ The Katha Upanishad also makes mention of this tree of life. In the scriptures of other nations also we will find mystical reference to trees of this kind—the tree Yggdrasill, for example, as we read in Scandinavian mythology, comparable with the tree that is described in the Fifteenth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. This art of comparing life to a tree seems to be common to various nationalities because of the character of growth implied in life, the feature of the ramification of aspects which we find in the movement of life, and the tendency the tree manifests are comparable to the tendency of life as a whole. In certain scriptures we are told that knowledge of this tree is the knowledge of the Absolute, so that it is identified with some aspect of Ultimate Reality itself. B...

================================================================ Monday, 01 Jan 2024 05:50. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 3. ================================================================ Some centuries back there was a great German thinker called Hegel. He had a system which is hard to understand for lay persons, according to which he developed a thought from the barest minimum of concepts available to human minds, not taking a stand on a phase of experience which is unintelligible. Take the lowest minimum, the irreducible minimum of content of thought, as the foundation of the development of your ideas, and gradually raise the structure of thought until you reach what he calls the Absolute Idea. 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 ide...