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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita:10.2 - Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================================== Wednesday 11, September 2024. 05:30. Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable-2. ========================================================================================== The comprehensive philosophy of the Gita is presented in a single verse here again, as in several other places. We should not be excessively religious, or excessively anything, because any kind of excess, even if it be devotion, so-called, entails a kind of dislike and hatred which unwittingly enters into the field of our consciousness. We are made in such a way that we cannot exist without hating something. We may be high class devotees of God, yogis par excellence, but the mind is made in such a way that it cannot escape this predicament of condemning something, deriding something, looking down upon something and contrasting something with another thing. This attitude is unfortunate and is not a positive comp
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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita:10.1 - Swami Krishnananda.

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Swami Chinmayananda: Swamiji, why some people are happy and others are unhappy? Tune in to talk 7 of chapter 9 of Bhagavad Gita to read more elaborately on this topic!  ========================================================================================== Saturday 03, Aug 2024. 05:30. Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable-1. ========================================================================================== Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable-1. The seventh chapter of the Bhagavadgita concludes with a message that leads on gradually to the commencement of the eighth chapter. This message is that in our devotion to God we have to so tune our consciousness that the various aspects in which God manifests Himself are taken into consideration at one stroke, and God is not conceived partially. Many of the religious attitudes of the devout take God as a transcendent, other-worldly Being, and religion has often been identified with a kind of
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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 9.5 - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ========================================================================================== Saturday 08, June 2024. 05:30. Chapter 9: The Unity of the Lover and the Beloved - 5. ========================================================================================== So, the seventh chapter of Gita tells us that jnana is the highest type of devotion. In the earlier stages of devotion, our hair may stand on end. There may be perspiration; there may be chocking of the throat; there may be trembling of the voice and a shutter of the whole system, a feeling of melting, as it were, into nothingness. A kind of swooning also takes place in ecstasy of devotion. These are the bhavas of bhakti. But the swooning is not a morbid psychological swooning of a patient who is bereft of consciousness—it is the shock that is injected into the soul by the presence of God. When God touches us, we may become unconscious, and this unconsciousness is not a disease, like an ordinary unconsciousness that come
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