Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

Swami Chinmayananda: Beware of the two W’s: Wealth and Women, warns Shri Adi Shankaracharya!  These two while they can bring pleasure but can also lead one to sorrow and suffering.  Spiritual seekers, heed Adi Shankara’s advice to avoid these pitfalls and find true inner peace.  Swipe to read his timeless wisdom.  To purchase this book, comment ‘Bhaja Govindam’. ================================================================================ Sunday 26, May 2024 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 6. ================================================================================= There is a period of test for every one of us in this world. It is not that honey and milk will flow immediately, though it must flow one day. It is not that it should not flow – it will flow, it has to flow, but it does not flow immediately. We are put to the rack in the beginning, ...

================================================================================= Wednesday 22, May 2024 07:00. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 5. ================================================================================= Do you know the story of how a mouse saved a lion? A lion was caught in a net of a hunter and, without going into the details of it, a little mouse said, “I shall be of some help to you, if you do not harm me.” The lion inside the net laughed, “You can help me, a little mouse?” “I may be able to do something.” What did it do? It was waiting for the time when the hunter will come to catch the prey. Every day he used to come at a particular hour. So a few minutes before the time when the hunter was to arrive, the mouse started nibbling at that net, and cut all the knots, and the lion immediately ran out. So a mouse can save a lion. Therefore, even little anim...

=================================================================================== Friday 17, May 2024 07:00. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 4 =================================================================================== Now, what is this mystery? When the soul is satisfied, the whole body is satisfied. Even when we take our breakfast, lunch or dinner, it is necessary that our soul should be satisfied. This is incidentally some instruction for every one of us, apart from the miracle aspect. We are not supposed to eat like animals, like dogs, just swallowing something crudely while thinking anything and saying anything, and then giving distress to the stomach. It is nothing of the kind. Unless your soul is satisfied, you have not eaten. There will be a satisfaction arising from the deepest recess of your being if the food that you have taken has been really received by the G...

================================================================================= Monday 13, May 2024 07:25. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 3. ================================================================================== Do you know what kind of boon Duryodhana asked for? “I would very much wish that your holiness extend this kind of blessing to my brethren in the forest. They too will be happy to receive you and to extend to you this same hospitality. What can be a greater satisfaction to me than the same blessing be given to them also?” Look at this man. He knew that they could not give anything because they were beggars, and the sage would be so angry. Nobody could encounter Durvasa's anger, and the Pandavas would be destroyed by the curse of this man. So this was the very shrewd suggestion Duryodhana gave. “O your Holiness, please bless them also.” The holy sage went at m...

================================================================================= Thursday 09, Nay 2024 07:25. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 2. ================================================================================== Sri Krishna, the great superman, was the friend and well-wisher and the unfailing protection of the Pandavas, but he was not available when they were in the state of great misery through which they had to pass, an incident that is described in the Sabha Parva, an earlier section of the book. It was an outrageous condition in which they were sunk, yet the hand of God did not help. Why should God not help us every minute? God only knows. But some explanation is sometimes offered. He comes only when we want Him, or rather, when it is impossible for us to exist without Him. And certain circumstances were there which explain this mystery. We need not go into tho...

  ================================================================================= Saturday 04, Apr 2024 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 1. ================================================================================== The Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata is a very vast book. It is the largest book, next to the Shanti Parva, out of the eighteen books of the Mahabharata. All the stories, anecdotes, narrations, mythological descriptions – practically all which we may consider as popular religion – can be seen beautifully pictured in the Aranya Parva of the Mahabharata. It is one of the most interesting treatises, filled with stories of wondrous, miraculous occurrences and the possibilities, secrets, and profundities of creation. No human being will believe some of the things stated there. They will say that this is not possible, but everything is possible in this crea...