Category: Bhagavadgita
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Krishna Janmashtami: Celebrating Life and Spirituality
On this auspicious Krishna Janmashtami, we celebrate Sri Krishna as the ultimate manifestation of Paramatma, Parandhama, Parabrahma. He is a complete manifestation of the ultimate supreme. He is beyond any words can describe; any word you try to describe him will be lower than his existence. No word can truly describe him. All the anashas…
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Never work out of greed because whatever we achieve is going to be taken away at the time of death. Never become silent and inactive out of fear because there is really nothing to lose.
The question concerning Karma and Sannyāsa, responsibility and renunciation, has been asked from time immemorial, and each time it has been answered. Yet this question remains. Somebody asked me, ‘Why is the Gītā still relevant today?’ I said, ‘Because we never learned it.’ Although Gītā was uttered at least 5,000 years ago it is still…
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Depression of Success
Arjuna asks: sannyāsaṁ karmaṇāṁ kṛṣṇa punar yogaṁ ca saṁsasi (5.1)?’ ‘Kṛṣṇa! Now, will you please tell me surely, which of the two: karma, action or Sannyāsa, renunciation is more beneficial ? Again and again, all of us ask ourselves this question. The mind is in dilemma! The mind asks for a single instruction! Our mind…
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A person who neither enjoys nor shares is Yaksha
There is no other book that is so clear, so direct. There is no other Master who is so straight in giving the Truth and the experiential expression of the Truth. After all the explanations given by Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna continues to ask, ‘Oh Kṛṣṇa, first of all, you asked me to renounce work and then…
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It is very difficult to connect with a Living Master, but very easy to relate with dead masters!
A person of knowledge becomes arrogant and refuses to acknowledge the limitations of knowledge. Sacrificing knowledge is far more difficult than sacrificing wealth. For a scholar to admit that he does not know is to commit suicide. He is losing his identity. Kṛṣṇa advises the seeker to sacrifice one’s knowledge and one’s intellect at His…
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Drop your mind
A small story: Once, a blind man went to a doctor to see if he had any hope of getting back his eyesight. The doctor checked him and said, ‘Yes, I can do a surgery and you can get back your eyesight. Then, you can drop your stick and start walking.’ The man replied, ‘Doctor,…
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Completing with your self-doubt in any field is Education
In the next few verses, Sri Krishna says that there is no happiness for those who always have self-doubts and who have no knowledge and authenticity. He uses the word ‘always.’ He does not say that from the beginning itself you should not have any doubts. Having doubts is natural; as long as you have…
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Only a man living authenticity, is a liberated one enriched with the ultimate knowledge
In the next verse, Kṛṣṇa uses the word ‘śraddha’ again. What a beautiful verse, ‘śraddhāvān labhate jñānaṁ—the one established in authenticity is enriched with knowledge.’ Actually, śraddha means faith plus the courage of authenticity to live to your highest possibility; the courage to be established in the peak of your capability. Understand, continuously committing with…
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Stopping the effect immediately and rewinding it back to the cause, and the effect merging into the cause is Completion.
One of the great disciples of Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita asks him, ‘Swamiji, if I come with you what will you teach me? What will you give me?’ Vivekananda says, ‘I will teach you how to face death.’ That is the ultimate teaching. Here, Kṛṣṇa is giving that ultimate teaching. In these verses, He is saying…
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These two verses, if they are understood, then not only the whole Bhagavadgita but all the spiritual scriptures can be realized.
Somebody asked me, ‘Swamiji, can dead Masters teach us like Paramahamsa Yogananda, Mahavatar Babaji etc.? If I pray to them, can they show me the path?’ I told him: dead masters are not dead as you think. When they are alive, their presence had a body. When they are dead, their presence has no body,…
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When Krishna delivered Gita, only one person listened to it, but today the whole world reads and practices it. When the Masters declare the truth, the quantity may not be there, but the quality will be there.
Kṛṣṇa starts His message as a response to Arjuna’s question. This shows that Arjuna still needs to have the maturity. He asks, ‘The Sun god is elder to you by birth; he is so much your senior. How am I to understand that in the beginning you instructed this science to him?’ Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa…
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Bhagawan Krishna says ‘I am telling you these secrets just because you are my devotee and friend, just because you are near and dear to me’
In the next verse, Kṛṣṇa says: sa evāyaṁ mayā te ‘dya yogaḥ proktaḥ purātanaḥ I bhakto ‘si me sakhā ceti rahasyaṁ hy etad uttamam II 4.3 He says, ‘I am telling you about this very ancient science of the ultimate Enlightenment or entering eternal bliss, and being My devotee and my friend, you will understand…
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