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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita:10.3 - Swami Krishnananda.

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Swami Chinmayananda: Share this wisdom with many! For full story! 👇🏽 Valmiki, after hearing the captivating story of Sri Rama from Sage Narada, became deeply absorbed in it.  One day, while at the Tamasa River with his disciple, he saw a pair of Krauncha birds happily playing together.  Suddenly, a hunter shot the male bird, killing it.  The female bird’s heart-wrenching cries deeply moved Valmiki, and in his grief, he spontaneously cursed the hunter, saying, “May you never find peace for killing one of the birds in the midst of its joy.” What surprised Valmiki was that this curse had come out in the form of a perfect metrical slogam, with four lines, each containing eight syllables.  Brahma then appeared to Valmiki and praised the slogam, revealing that the poetic inspiration had a divine purpose.  He instructed Valmiki to compose an epic about the life and glory of Shri Rama in this same slogam form.  Brahma promised that the story would endure in all the worlds as long as mountain
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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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