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 ========================================================= ========================================================= Friday, November 19, 2021. 6:00.AM. The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 5.1  Chapter-5.God is Our Eternal Friend - 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In our rapid study of the Bhagavadgita, we could observe that there is an inherent defect in the understanding ingrained in human nature by the reply that Bhagavan Sri Krishna gave, as a retort, to the problems raised by Arjuna. This defect, this shortcoming, was also pointed out in the third chapter. The human way of thinking is not necessarily the right way of thinking, though it is accepted as the norm of thinking in the world of human beings. But, unfortunately, the world does not consist only of human beings—a point which man cannot accept due to the egoism of his nature. The ego is self-assertive and proclaims its superiority ove

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 11, 2021. 4:45.AM. Chapter- 4.The Cosmic Manifestation - 5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No mind can think in this manner because of the desires that are inside us—intense desire, which also, when it is frustrated, becomes intense anger. Desire and anger—these will not allow us to contemplate in this manner. Either we have desire or we have anger; one of the two is always there. We cannot be free from both. But they are one and the same thing appearing in two ways—anger and desire are not two things. When Arjuna queried, “What is this obstruction to this visualisation that you are proclaiming?” Bhagavan Sri Krishna said, “Desire and anger are the obstacles.” They are all-swallowing, all-devouring, fire-like, and insatiable. They can destroy anything, and as l

-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, August 10, 2021. 6:50.AM. Chapter- 4.The Cosmic Manifestation -4. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is difficult therefore to know anything unless we know everything. To know anything completely would mean to know everything completely. Only the cosmic mind can know all things correctly, and its judgment alone can be called correct. “So Arjuna, your statements are based on your notion that you are a human being belonging to a class and category, an individual among many others, separate entirely from the objective world—which is not true.” Hence, a transvaluation of values becomes necessary. The individual has to rise up to the occasion, and the occasion is the recognition of the involvement of the very judge himself in the circumstance of judgment. Well, if this is

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 2021. 6:58.AM. Chapter- 4.The Cosmic Manifestation -3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, this objective universe is not completely severed from the subjective experiences, on account of the two being the limbs of prakriti herself. The perception of the objective universe by an individual is made possible by the presence of an intermediary link that is called the presiding deity or the adhidaivata of the mind, intellect, sense organs, etc. Thus, there does not appear that there is a real gulf between the seer and the seen. They are somehow made to appear as if one is different from the other, but the fact of their being children of the same mother, the cosmic prakriti, precludes any idea of their total isolation, one from the other.  Not merely that; there is a connecting link between the seer and the seen. The sense organs and the

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SATURDAY, MAY 01, 2021. 07:02.AM. Chapter- 4.The Cosmic Manifestation -2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Likewise, all that is going to be the universe to come is present in a potential form in the samyavastha, or the equilibrated condition of the cosmos—prakriti- mulaprakriti in its primordial state. Sattva, rajas and tamas in this cosmical sense are different from the ethical qualities to which we attribute these characteristics. We say a person is sattvic or rajasic or tamasic, by which we mean a person is manifesting goodness or distraction or inertia. But in this cosmic sense, sattva, rajas, and tamas are far beyond the human concept. They are not ethical principles.  There is no morality in prakriti—it is an impersonal power

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2021. 08:38.AM. Chapter- 4.The Cosmic Manifestation -1. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The turmoil in the mind of Arjuna, described in the first chapter of the Bhagavadgita, is attributed by Bhagavan Sri Krishna to an absence of correct understanding. Every sorrow which sinks the heart is regarded, in the light of higher thinking, as a consequence of inadequate knowledge. Man is not born to suffer; it is joy that is his birthright. It is hammered into our minds again and again that our essential nature is not grief, and therefore to manifest grief cannot be the manifestation of our essential nature. Sorrow is not our birthright; it does not belong to our true substance. What we are really made of is not capable of being affected by sorrow of any kind. There is a deep quintessence in the heart of every person which defies contamination

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, February 05,, 2021. 07 : 15. AM. Chapter-3. The World is the Face of God - 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here we find Arjuna at the very beginning of the Bhagavadgita. All the supports and all the weapons that we have in our hands do not seem to be sufficient to meet the powers that are arrayed before us in battle. The soul recoils from the fact of its having to come in opposition to the powers of the world which are vastly arrayed before it. Then doubts arise. I mentioned to you something about the nature of the havoc that doubt can play in our minds, and doubts will not leave us till the last moment of our lives. There are varieties of doubts; when one doubt goes, another one comes that was not there previously. Doubts shake us from the root, and we become diffident at that momen

----------------------------------------------------- Sunday, January 10,, 2021. 02 : 35. PM. Chapter-3. The World is the Face of God - 6. ------------------------------------------------- The gods are watching us. They are seeing us even now. They are not non-existent myths, as people may imagine. They are as real as hard brick before us, and the Yoga Vasishtha tells us in a beautiful verse that when a person becomes completely surrendered to the law of the world—he is egoless, in other words—it becomes the duty of the rulers of the cosmos to take care and protect this individual. As the divinities take care of all the quarters of the cosmos, so the seeker is protected by all the angels in the heavens—gods in swarga, divinities all over, to whom we have paid scant respect earlier due to the affirmation of our ego. God Himself descends in a magnificent form, and to recollect what we have studied earlier in the Udyogaparva of the Mahabharata, divine forces get gathered for the help of t