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=================================================================================== Thursday 27, June 2024, 07:50. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata-4. ================================================================================== There is a difficulty. We have a difficulty always, and there is not a single moment when we are not in some difficulty because if there is no difficulty of any kind, in any sense of the term, at any place, in any aspect of our life, it would be difficult to imagine that we would be living and doing things in the manner that we do now. There is perpetual motivation in some direction in our life, and our life is a complicated network of involvements and relations. What is meant by 'our life'? It is a large web of interrelations where everything is connected in some way, in some proportion, in some emphasis of intensity. It is my particular need o...

Swami Chinmayananda: Someone asked Gurudev, I sleep too long, I feel always always sleepy. What is the healthy minimum of sleep? What Bhagavad Gita says on this and how much sleep is good for yoga or any activity you wish to pursue, swipe to read!  ========================================================================== Saturday 22, June 2024, 06:50. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata-3. ============================================================================ Sometimes a sincere question is raised: How can a gospel which has an eternal value, which seems to be a permanent message coming from a divine source, be associated with a peculiar human context which we call a battle? Often, in moods of partial understanding and on the basis of an emphasis of one aspect of the matter, the Bhagavadgita is called a war gospel. It urges us to act by raising arms and taking up cudgel...

Swami Chinmayananda:    Understanding the deeper truths of life requires a refined intellect and a pure heart.  One must exert effort and not dismiss Vedanta, Philosophy or God  if it seems difficult to grasp, as profound truths are not immediately apparent. For more inspiring and insightful thoughts, get your copy of READ DAILY, LIVE FULLY on- ========================================================================== Monday 17, June 2024 07:00. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata-2. ============================================================================ This particular book, the Udyoga Parva, is a classic in a very important sense. There is high literary beauty in the style of writing, and the poet's outlook rises to its pinnacle of perception, as it were, because it is the aim of a crucial action that is contemplated and is to take place. The mind is up i...

================================================================================ Tuesday 11, June 2024 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 7. Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata-1. ================================================================================= Once that veil of vacuousness and darkness is pierced through and the life of an unknown existence, an undiscovered existence, the Virat Parva is over, we will find the light of the universe radiantly beaming forth on our face, and the whole world will be at our back. The world will tell us, “I am with you.” In the beginning it told us, “Don't talk to me. I have nothing to do with you. You have left me, so I shall also not talk to you.” This kind of retort may come from the world, and we may be in that condition of sorrow: “Oh, I have nothing.” But we have to pass that step of the test given to us by the force...