Category: Bhagavadgita
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Bhagavad Gita: The Owner’s Manual for Your Body and Mind
Discover how the Bhagavad Gita serves as the ‘owner’s manual’ for the human system. Learn to transcend the pendulum of sensory pleasures, conquer the ego, and live life as the goal itself through completion and spontaneous responsibility.
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Bhagavad Gītā 5.27–5.29: Elevating from Fear and Greed to Eternal Consciousness — with Guided Meditation
The Inner Guru and the Outer Guru Here, ‘Me’ refers to the supreme witnessing consciousness, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness; it is not the six-feet Kṛṣṇa frame. I always tell people, the outer Guru, the Master is needed only to awaken the inner Guru. Once the inner Guru, the consciousness is awakened, the outer Guru needs to…
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The Secret to Decision Making: Look Inward and Create the Space of Completion
We will begin our exploration with a profoundly beautiful history from the Mahābhārat. Once, the elders of the Kuru royal family decided they needed to test the intelligence of their upcoming generation of princes—the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas. They wanted to determine who possessed greater intelligence and wisdom: the Kaurava children, who were the hundred…
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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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