Ever Joyful Living and Loving! Over five thousand years ago it was rediscovered in India that perfection could not be found in the impermanent external world which is ever full of contradictions. This glorious discovery came in the form of The Bhagwad Gita - the most revered and stunningly succinct Hindu scripture which itself is based on India's timeless Vedanta philosophy. Vedanta exhorts that freedom from all limitations at all times under all circumstances can alone be suggestive of real perfection! This podcast is an extract from Jeetu dada's Weekly discourses on Gita.
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita.
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita.
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita.
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita.
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita.
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita
Empowering Gita Reflections
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita
Reflections on Bhagwad Gita - Song of God, Lord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita
Reflection of Purshottam Yog. Bhagwad Gita is the song of God, ord Krishna. This podcast is a guide to a modern lifestyle with the wisdom of the Gita
We do have to be part of absolute nature to drive any conclusion
Experiences are temporary sensations, learning from experience lasts very long! |
Like air entrapped in a bubble is same as the air outside it, as the water in a wave is same as the water in the entirety of the ocean, a soul in a body is same as the supersoul, 'paramatma', God, Lord Krishna. In this chapter, Krishna counters Arjuna's argument of having to kill his kinsmen, his friends, and family, for the sake of wealth by stating this phenomenon and concluding that by slaying their bodies, he, in fact is not hurting or affecting in any way, the ancient and eternal soul that inhabits those bodies.
At the climactic moment, when the Pandava's most valuable and fierce warrior, Arjuna, states that he would not fight in the war, Krishna, his friend and charioteer, surprisingly enough, smiles! How could he smile given the dire situation his side would be put in if Arjun withdraws from the battle! These two verses and the mysterious smile of Lord Krishna builds up the suspense, the intrigue, that engages the reader or listener in the song of God, the Gita, to attend to rest of it that follows.
The benevolent and caring ruler, residing in the heart of every being, beating incessantly 'I am, I am' to make us comfortingly aware of his loving presence!
Arjun admits that he is confused about his duty, besieged with anxiety and faintheartedness! Bewildered by the choices of rights and wrongs, impossible to select before him, he prays to Lord Krishna - "I am Your disciple, and surrendered to You, please instruct me about what is certainly the best for me?" This verse is a prayer that we can say to the lord whenever we are indecisive and confused about what to do next!
Arjun, a representative of our own psyche - bluntly questions Krishna's asking him to get up and get ready for the war. He is attached to his relatives like we are to the things we love. Arjun asks 'What are you talking about?' to Krishna's sound advice and, on the contrary, provides justifications to his lamenting resignation - just like we validate our wrong decisions arising out of our attachments and tendencies!
Chapter 2 continues... Shree Krishna begins to dispel Arjun's doubts, troubles, and confusion. Through the Gita, through many questions and their answers, Krishna teaches Arjun, and also us readers, to be carefree! It's not just a situational solution - for Arjun to fight in the war of Kurukshetra, but to be carefree in all troubles of life!
Why? Krishna asks Arjun - why are you troubled? After Arjun drops his weapons and armor, Krishna smiles and the first word he speaks is why? And then the conversation that follows and forms the whole of Gita is an answer to that 'why'. By the end of the Gita, Arjun admits that his delusions have ended and he is ready to fight! One takeaway from Gita for us, seekers, is this practice of asking 'why' whenever we face a dilemma or trouble.
BhagNow begins the second chapter of the Bhagawad Gita! Arjun, confused and perplexed by the situation he was put into, is looking at it with the wrong perspective of reason! In the following chapters, the whole of the rest of the Gita is about Shree Krishna's course correcting Arjun, and through that, in turn, lifting all our reader's perspectives towards the universe & life!
Here narrator tells about the subject of expertise warriors at Kurukshetra with Pandava and Kauravas.
In this episode narrator compared Dharma with Kurukshetra. Next told the story of Teacher Guru Dronacharya and his son Ashwathama and his students.
What is Dharma? Here, the narrator explains the properties and principles of dharma as per "Bhagwat Gita".
In this episode, the narrator tells about how a corrupt person destroys his own world and own life with the example of prince Duryodhan and how blind king "Dhrutrashtra" who is the father of Duryodhan.
Bhagwat Gita is about Arjun's confusion about what he should do in the war of Kurukshetra. He is confused about which way to move forward.
The Kurus & Pandavas face each other on Kurukshetra - the field of action, and at the climactic moment, Arjun has dropped his weapons and resolved to not fight his enemies. But Krishna puts forth arguments to help Arjuna realize his duty. One of the arguments is that we are not afterall different from one another but parts of the same universal being! Hence we cannot bring cessation to anyone's existence. This podcast sheds light on that aspect.
This is the second segment in the ongoing discourse on first chapter of Bhagwat Gita where Arjun's dilemma has suddenly changed him into a confused, mentally weakened being from the most feared warrior of the Pandava side.
The first chapter of Bhagwad Gita, the song of God, is about the setting of the battlefield - the Kaurav and Pandav assembling with all their vast armies composed of warriors from all across Indian Subcontinent and its neighborhood, ready and eager to massacre the other side. But at the climactic moment, the prime warrior, the ultimate weapon of the Pandav Amry, Arjun, suddenly loses his will to fight in the battle. All of a sudden, he realizes that the people he has to cut through to the throne of Hastinapur, are his own kin and friends and relatives. At this moment he is, quite justifiably, in a fix, about what his real duty is. And that's when the Lord of the universes, Shree Krishna, knower of 'Dharma' the law of righteousness, the math of universe, starts to sing wisdom! This Podcast describes the first few verses of the first chapter of Bhagwad Gita, when the context of it is being set.
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