Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Thursday, July 28, 2022, 19;30. Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life - 1. ======================================================================= Chapter 15 – Purushothama yogam :The Yogam of the Supreme Divine Personality : Lessons from the Analogy of a Banyan tree : ====================================================================== Shree Krishna had enlightened Arjun in the previous chapter that by transcending the effects of the three gunas (modes of material nature), one can achieve the divine goal. He also declared that engaging in exclusive devotion is the best means of transcending beyond these gunas.  Such devotion is practiced by detaching the mind from the world and attaching it to God alone. Therefore, it is essential to understand both. He has already explained the nature of God in the previous chap...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Friday, June 17, 2022. 16:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-6. ===================================================================== juna looked at the world with the five senses. This is not Sankhya, as the Bhagavadgita tells us. Arjuna, you have to look upon the world with the Sankhya knowledge. The Second Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is an exposition of the Sankhya understanding that is to become the basis of our attitude towards the world. And without this Sankhya, yoga will not come. Yoga is the practical application of Sankhya or, in the terminology of the Bhagavadgita, Sankhya is knowledge, yoga is action. So unless you have a knowledge of the nature of the world, you cannot act in the world properly. You will make mistakes in every one of your approaches. Now, this Sankhya which the Bhagavadgita speaks of is the knowledge of...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Friday, June 03, 2022. 19:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-5. ======================================================================== The Upanishads speak of the ultimate truth of things. Yo vai bhūmā tat sukham: The Plenum is felicity. And what is the Plenum? What is this Bhuma which is the source of real bliss?  yo vai bhuma tatsukham nalpe sukhamasti bhumaiva sukham bhuma tveva vijijnasitavya iti bhumanam bhagavo vijijnasa iti || 7.23.1 || Meaning of the mantram : 1. Sanatkumāra said: ‘That which is infinite is the source of happiness. There is no happiness in the finite. Happiness is only in the infinite. But one must try to understand what the infinite is.’ Nārada replied, ‘Sir, I want to clearly understand the infinite’. Word-for-word explanation: Yaḥ vai bhūmā, = that which is infinite [lit., big, or the biggest];...

 ============================================================== ============================================================== 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...