Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Monday, May 16, 2022. 18:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-4. =============================================================== For this, a standard of reference is provided by the Bhagavadgita. Whenever we say that something is right or something is wrong, we have a standard of reference in connection with which we pronounce this judgment. How do we know that something is wrong? Because we have in our mind an idea of the right. Wherefrom has this idea of the right arisen in our mind? This idea might have arisen on account of various factors, but those factors should be based upon an unshakable principle. If the very principle itself is to be shaken and if it is going to be susceptible to changes in the course of time, then our idea of the right will also go on changing every day. The Bhagavadgita provides a permanent standard of reference for judging...

 ========================================================================= ============================================================================ Wednesday, April 05, 2022. 20:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-3. ========================================================================== It may be reiterated that the Bhagavadgita is not such a gospel of any religion as to be consecrated in a puja room or only for certain occasions of festivity, ceremony, etc. It is our vade mecum, our pocket guide for every problem, even in our prosaic earthly life – maybe in an office or a factory or the fields of our vocations. If the Bhagavadgita cannot give us piece of mind, it would mean that the Bhagavadgita has not helped us, which would also mean that we have not understood it. We cannot read all eighteen chapters of the Gita and then start crying, cursing and complaining. It is to prevent this erroneous, ugly attitude of the human mind that this gospel has been introduced to u...

 ============================================================= ============================================================== Sunday, March 13, 2022. 20:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-2. ============================================================   The Bhagavadgita is the science of mankind's culture and activity, to put it simply and precisely. The Bhagavadgita is not a religious gospel of the Hindus. It is not a scripture in the sense of any sectarian doctrine. It does not teach religion in the popular sense of the term. It does not teach any type of ethics or morals in the common understanding of the meaning of the term ‘ethics' or ‘morality'. The Bhagavadgita purports to expound human nature in its various aspects. It is not necessarily the Hindu nature or the Christian nature or the Buddhist nature; it is human nature. The problem of Arjuna was a human problem. It was not a Hindu problem or an Eastern problem particularly. It was a problem of the psychology...

 ============================================================= ================================================================ Friday, February 11, 2022. 20:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-1. ============================================================== The culture of mankind may be said to have reached its zenith in the thoughts of the Upanishads, wherein we have an exposition of the quintessential essence of all values that humanity has been seeking through the passage of history. In this groundwork of human culture, we have the perennial inspiration of the soul of man, the cry of the deepest in the human individual, the raptures of what may be regarded as the most valuable part of human nature. Such is the meaning hidden behind the gospel of the Upanishads, which soar into the empyrean of the superhuman and the meta-empirical, rising to levels of such ecstatic heights almost inaccessible to the faculties available to the human individual, making us giddy with the hei...

  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, February 11, 2021. 09 : 48. AM. 4: SECOND DISCOURSE - SANKHYA YOGA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sanjaya said: 1. To him who was thus overcome with pity and who was despondent, with eyes full of tears and agitated Madhusudana (the destroyer of Madhu) or Krishna spoke these words: The Blessed Lord said: 2. Whence is this perilous strait come upon thee, this dejection which is unworthy of you, disgraceful, and which will close the gates of heaven upon you, O Arjuna? 3. Yield not to impotence, O Arjuna, son of Pritha. It does not befit thee. Cast off this mean weakness of the heart! Stand up, O scorcher of the foes! Arjuna said: 4. How O Madhusudana, shall I fight in battle with arrows against Bhishma and Drona, who are fit to be worshipped, O destroyer of enemies? 5. Better it is, indeed, in...

  --------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 20, 2020. 08 : 27. AM. 3. Sri Gita Dhyana : FIRST DISCOURSE : THE YOGA OF THE DESPONDENCY OF ARJUNA ------------------------------------------------------------- Om Sri Sat-guru Paramatmane Namah THE BHAGAVAD GITA FIRST DISCOURSE THE YOGA OF THE DESPONDENCY OF ARJUNA ------------------------------------------------- Dhritarashtra said: 1. What did my people and the sons of Pandu do when they had assembled together eager for battle on the holy plain of Kurukshetra, O Sanjaya? Sanjaya said: 2. Having seen the army of the Pandavas drawn up in battle-array, king Duryodhana then approached his teacher (Drona) and spoke these words. 3. "Behold, O Teacher! this mighty army of the sons of Pandu, arrayed by the son of Drupada, thy wise disciple. 4. "Here are heroes, mighty archers, equal in battle to Bhima and Arjuna, Yuyudhana (Satyaki), Virata and Drupada, of the great car (mighty warriors). 5. "Dhrish...

--------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, October 20, 2020. 08 : 27. AM. 2. Sri Gita Dhyana : MEDITATION ON THE GITA. ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Om, O Bhagavadgita, with which Partha (Arjuna) was illumined by Lord Narayana Himself and which was composed in the middle of the Mahabharata by the ancient sage Vyasa, O Divine Mother, the destroyer of rebirth, the showerer of the nectar of Advaita (teaching on the Oneness of all things) and consisting of eighteen chapters—upon Thee, O Bhagavad Gita! O affectionate Mother! I meditate. 2. Salutations unto thee, O Vyasa of broad intellect and with eyes like the petals of full-blown lotus, by whom the lamp of knowledge, filled with the oil of the Mahabharata, has been lighted. 3. Salutations to Krishna, the Parijata tree or the Kalpataru or the bestower of all desires for those who take refuge in Him, the holder of the whip in one hand, the wielder of the symbol of knowledge, and the...