Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

======================================================================================== Monday 25, November 2024, 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-7. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-7. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== The duty you are expected to perform is whatever you are capable of contributing to the welfare of the whole. Here again, a little analogy of the human body will be good. You do not expect the leg to think as the brain thinks. You do not expect the head to walk. You do not expect the nose to see, or the ear to smell. It is expected of each organ to perform a particular function. Now, the difference in the performance of these functions does not imply any kind of ethical or moral superiority, or even a social difference. Which part of your body is inferior, and which part is superior? Eve...

======================================================================================== Sunday 17, November 2024, 06:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-5&6. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-5&6 The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== The three gunas, sattva, rajas and tamas, manifest themselves as the various limbs of the subtle body. What are these limbs of the subtle body? They are many in number. For instance, the character of your intellect, the manner of the performance and the action of your intellect, is also decided by the proportion of the distribution of these three forces in your personality. The preponderance of any one of these sattva, rajas or tamas gunas in your intellect, in your understanding, will decide the extent of your understanding. Hence, it does not mean that everyone can understan...

======================================================================================== Saturday 09, November 2024, 06:15. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-4. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== In one place the Gita says that there is nothing on earth or in heaven which is free from these inner constituents called sattva, rajas and tamas. Everything that is living, non-living, visible, invisible, empirical or transcendent is constituted of these properties sattva, rajas and tamas. There is nothing in the whole of creation which has not these three ingredients making up its constitution. Hence, each person is also an embodiment of these three gunas. What are these gunas? Sattva, rajas, tamas – what do these imply? What is meant by sattva, rajas, tamas? It is an impulsion, a te...

======================================================================================== Saturday 02, November 2024, 07:00. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-3. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-1. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Each person has a duty in this world. Now, this is a very important point which is brought out in many a way through the injunctions occurring in a variegated manner in different verses of the Bhagavadgita. Everyone has a duty. There is no one who can be free from duty. But what is duty? This was the question. In the beginning itself it was mentioned, “I cannot understand what my duty is. I am floundering. I am completely upset with my very basic understanding. What is my obligation at this moment?” Now, this is not an easy issue that is raised by a person. You will find that even the ...