Mahabharatham : ( 08/06/2013. )

======================================================================================== Friday 12, December 2024. 05:30. Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable-4. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================= Karma or action, according to the Bhagavadgita gospel, is a mysterious, comprehensive law which no doubt includes the ordinary actions that we perform in daily life, but does not exhaust itself merely in these actions. The karmas are actions of the various individuals—psychological as well as physical, and also social. They are the reverberations, sympathetic reactions, as it were, of a cosmic pulsation which has been set into motion by the ideation of the Supreme Being. God's will is operating behind your activity. Your actions therefore are not your actions. This one sentence can be said to be the whole of the Gita. Your actions are not your actions. They are the actions of that principle whi...

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 t...