Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ============================================================================== BHAGAVAD GEETA  Chapter - 2 Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas) “Yoga of the SUPREME SELF” Sri Veda Vyasaji ============================================================================== Wednesday 17, Apr 2024 06:30. 2.9   THE PATH OF KAMYA KARMA  (Slogas: 42-44, 3 No.) Slogam -44: C. The Result? – Addicted Minds  Post - 68. ============================================================================= Slogam -44: C. The Result? – Addicted Minds  9  Bhoga-aishwarya-prasaktaanaam =  For, those who cling to pleasure and lordship,  10  tayaa apahrita chetasaam; =  whose minds have become addicted to them –  11  vyavasaayaatmikaa buddhih =  none of these are determinate and resolute, 12  samaadhau na vidheeyate. =  meditative and tranquil , or studious-minded. =============================================================================== 9-10  Since the fruit of Karmas is impermanent, chasing them leads one to sink  dee

=============================================================================== Tuesday 16, Apr 2024. 07:10. Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Slogam-36. ================================================================================ Slogam-36: "Avachya-vadansh cha bahun vadishyanti tavahitah nindantastava samarthyam tato duhkhataram nu kim." ================================================================================ avachya-vadan—using harsh words;  cha—and;  bahun—many;  vadishyanti—will say;  tava—your;  ahitah—enemies;  nindantah—defame;  tava—your;  samarthyam—might;  tatah—than that;  dukkha-taram—more painful;  nu—indeed;  kim—what. ================================================================================== Translation: BG 2.36:  "Your enemies will defame and humiliate you with unkind words, disparaging your might. Alas, what could be more painful than that?" ===============================================================

============================================================================== Monday 15, Apr 2024 06:40. Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence - 2. Post-23. ============================================================================== How would you, then, make yourself fit for the universal vision if you are rejoicing in the world of the sense organs? Another slogam gives a little clue in this matter.  Apuryamanam acalapratistham samudram apah pravisanti yadvat, tadvat kama yam pravisanti sarve sa santim apnoti na kamakami (Gita 2.70):  A person filled with desires cannot have any vision of the Universal Spirit. If it could be possible, by way of intense austerity and restraint of sense organs, to withdraw the forces of the senses into your own self; if all the desires can merge into your universality as rivers merge in the ocean or as waves subside in the ocean; if the multifarious longings of the senses can melt down into the universal background of your own existence

   ========================================================================== Sunday 14, Apr 2024 07:00. Article Scriptures (Spoken on September 18th, 1974.)  ========================================================================== I have been asked to speak a few words to you on the philosophy of the Bhagavadgita. Normally, this great text called the Bhagavadgita has been regarded as a religious and spiritual gospel of Bharatavarsha, that is, India. There have been commentaries galore published on this wonderful text of India's heritage, all expounding various aspects or facets of its doctrine or teaching, and even today commentaries are being written on this wonderful book. It only shows the comprehensiveness of the teaching of the Bhagavadgita and the inability of the finite human mind to fathom its depths. To me at least, the Bhagavadgita has been not merely a religious gospel or even a spiritual guide in the ordinary accepted sense of the term, but I may say it is a very sci

============================================================================== BHAGAVAD GEETA  Chapter - 2 Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas) “Yoga of the SUPREME SELF” Sri Veda Vyasaji ============================================================================== Friday 12, Apr 2024 06:20. 2.9   THE PATH OF KAMYA KARMA  (Slogas: 42-44, 3 No.) Post - 67. ============================================================================= Slogam - 43:B. The Pursuit of Pleasure:  5  Kaamaatmaanah svarga-paraah = Full of desires, having Heaven as their goal;  6 janma-karma-phala-pradaam; = they pursue the rewards  of their actions, which leads them (only) to new births; 7  kriyaa-vishesha-bahulaam = They plunge all their efforts into specific deeds,  8  bhoga-aishwarya-gatim prati. = for the attainment of pleasure and lordship.   ============================================================================== 5-6  Based on the above philosophy is the lifestyle that accompanies it. Their deluded  minds draw

  =========================================================================== Thursday 11, Apr 2024. 06:40. Chapter 2: Sankhya Yogam The Yogam of Analytical Knowledge Slogam-35. ============================================================================ Slogam - 35: "Bhayad ranad uparatam mansyante tvam maha-rathah yesham cha tvam bahu-mato bhutva yasyasi laghavam." ============================================================================ Meaning: Bhayat—out of fear;  ranat—from the battlefield; uparatam—have fled; mansyante—will think;  tvam—you;  maha-rathah—warriors who could single handedly match the strength of ten thousand ordinary warriors;  yesham—for whom;  cha—and; tvam—you;  bahu-matah—highly-esteemed;  bhutva—having been;  yasyasi—you will lose;  laghavam—decreased in value ============================================================================= Translation: BG 2.35:  "The great generals who hold you in high esteem will think that you fled from the b