Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

Swami Chinmayananda: Devotees all over the world would vouch for the fact that every letter written to him would elicit a reply in a few days from wherever on the globe he happened to be at that point of time, in which even the address on the envelope often handwritten by him! He wrote over a hundred letters a day, over and above all the other aspects of his busy daily schedule. On one occasion, when his address book was misplaced by his secretary, he dictated two hundred and fifty addresses, including the PIN codes, from his photographic memory! ======================================================================================== Saturday 21, Jul. 2024, 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity-6.3 Chapter 6: Beauty and Duty in the Bhagavadgita-3. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti =================================================================================== There are two great difficulties in life: t...

========================================================================= Sunday 21, Jul. 2024, 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity-6.2 Chapter 6: Beauty and Duty in the Bhagavadgita-2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ========================================================================== The context of the Bhagavadgita, the occasion for whose delivery we are bringing to our memories today, was certainly a historical occasion. But that historical occasion could not manage itself. People require a ruler, as they are unable to rule themselves independently; and to discover, to find, and to install an administrator or a ruler of people is to endeavour to fix the location of a significance in their own lives. Everyone knows there must be some significance in the lives of everybody, but we wish to see the significance operating actively in our lives. It is otherwise difficult to understand how we requir...

========================================================================= Monday 15, Jul. 2024, 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity-6.1 Swami Krishnananda The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 6: Beauty and Duty in the Bhagavadgita-1. (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ========================================================================== It is believed that there was a super-mundane manifestation of power in a particular context of an ancient historical period which is said to defy any relevance to mere temporal events and any attempt to interpret all earthly history in terms of an unimaginably super-mundane system of the evaluation of values. It is as if there was a sudden change of the entire administrative system, and a new policy began to give significance to every project, every action and every event. History has to be read in the light of a super-history, a trend of thinking which is not unknown to some philosophers of history these days. T...

=================================================================================== Tuesday 09, Jul. 2024, 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata-6. ================================================================================== The Bhagavadgita wants to be your good friend. The Bhagavadgita wants to be a good physician of your illness. The Bhagavadgita does not want to make money off of you as a patient by giving you one tablet for your headache and saying, “Quit, now you are okay.” It wants to diagnose your entire disease and say, “My dear friend, this is the difficulty.” A holistic interpretation of medicine is the proper way of treating an illness, as people say nowadays. It means that you have to consider the whole being of the person when you treat that person for any particular illness. It is not the leg or the nose or the head or the throat that is ill; you are ill. ...

=================================================================================== Thursday 04, Jul. 2024, 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Chapter 5: The Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata-5. ================================================================================== The conflict of the actual historical battle is, no doubt, a conflict, and it is also to be taken into consideration, but it is not outside the environment in which human beings are involved. We are not always judicious to appreciate that even a historical battle is not purely historical. It is not a political event as it appears on the surface. It is a deep secret of the human psyche affecting a larger atmosphere, the whole world, and it may even reach up to the skies. Even the stellar regions may be involved in exerting some influence in the action of a single man on Earth. It may be an emperor, a dictator, an administrator, a major general, a bus...