Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

================================================================================= Sunday 28, Apr 2024 06:20. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 3: The Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata -6. ================================================================================== Then there are social norms. You are in an ashram, for instance. You have to live like the other people in the ashram. There are certain systems and norms of behaviour. It is not possible to behave as you would behave in a railway train or in a circus tent, and so on. An ashram is an ashram. If you are in some other place, it is a different matter. And you have got a physical body. It is a reality. Who says it is not a reality? If you say you are not involved in it, then it is not reality. As I mentioned, a reality is that with which you are involved and which you consider as real. Do you consider the body as real or unreal? If you say it is unreal, very...

  Chinmaya Mission Mumbai: Greetings for Shri Hanuman Jayanti! Shri Hanuman is the star devotee, always at the feet of His Lord.  Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda’s message highlights His strength, wisdom, love, and above all His single pointed dedication to His Master, Shri Rama. On Hanuman Jayanti, may Shri Rama’s most ardent Bhakta bless each one with His inimitable brand of devotion. Pavanasuta Hanuman ki Jai! =================================================================================== Tuesday 23, Apr 2024 06:20. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 3: The Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata -5. =================================================================================== Every spiritual seeker, every sadhaka, should have time to sit alone for one hour every day. Sit under a tree somewhere. Do not chat with people unless, of course, it is a helpful person. Why do you chat unnecessarily? If it is a...

  =================================================================================== Friday 19, Apr 2024 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 3: The Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata -4. =================================================================================== Then what happens? In spiritual life what is required is sincerity, honesty of purpose, and a genuineness of acquisition. They say there is nothing else required except that. Yet, even very sincere souls are sometimes put to a hard test. We cannot say that the Pandavas were not sincere. They were very sincere, good souls, but they had to undergo this difficulty. What a hardship! In one place, Kunti prays to the Lord to express the troubles all her children had to pass through and the mysterious way in which God's help came to their succour. And in the end, old Bhishma regretfully states, “What a pity, my dear people! You are good souls, with gr...

=================================================================================== Saturday 13, Apr 2024 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 3: The Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata -3. =================================================================================== What are the difficulties of a spiritual seeker? These are the difficulties the Pandavas had to face. They had even to be exiled into the forest. The third Parva of the Mahabharata is called the Aranya Parva, or the Vana Parva. The exuberance of a tentative placement in luxury and security gave place to a sudden bolt from the blue, unexpectedly come from the skies, as it were, and the royal prince seated on the throne found himself in the thick of the forest. Oh, what a pity was Yudhisthira's fate! My dear spiritual seeker, we find ourselves in a wilderness after some time. We hop from place to place in search of different kinds of spiritual securit...

  =================================================================================== Sunday 07, Apr 2024 07:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 3: The Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata -2. =================================================================================== What are these doubts? They are the voices of the world speaking at the same time, simultaneously with the earlier voice which said that the aim of life is spiritual realisation, union with the Almighty. No wife of a husband will refuse to accept that God is the Ultimate Reality. Everyone will say, “Yes, I understand.” But when the husband insists on these issues and becomes pronounced in his love for God in actual outward behaviour, the dear wife, who is the partner of this husband in the house, who cannot deny that God is the Supreme Being and the Ultimate Reality, will add, “You have to listen to my voice also a little bit. I understand, my ...

  =================================================================================== Tuesday 02, Apr 2024 07:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 3: The Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata -1. =================================================================================== Great and interesting meanings have been read into the Mahabharata epic, and the more we go into its secrets and implications, the more may we be able to relate it to human life in general. Do we not hear it said again and again that the more we study the Bhagavadgita, the deeper is the meaning that one discovers in it? If that is the case with the Bhagavadgita, that is also the case with the Mahabharata because in a comparison, we may say, if the Bhagavadgita is the soul, the Mahabharata is the body. So the spirit of the Bhagavadgita is embodied in the epic of the Mahabharata. If the Bhagavadgita is a gospel for all life, the Mahabharata epic...