Mahabharatham : ( 08/06/2013. )

========================================================================= Tuesday, January 31, 2023. 06:00. Chapter 7: The Art of Meditation.-3. ========================================================================= So, there is a social self. Social self means the particular person or object with which the consciousness of a person has become identified for a peculiar reason, which varies from person to person. When consciousness identifies itself with any object, that object becomes the self, because consciousness is the self. What we call ‘self' is nothing but self-consciousness. But if we are able to transfer our consciousness so intensely and vehemently in respect of a person or an object outside, that person or object becomes the self, and then becomes a centre of attraction and love. That is the so-called artificial self that is created by the identification of consciousness externally with the secondary self, or the gaunatman. There is the bodily self, called the vichata...

 ======================================================================== Chinmaya Mission : Swami Brahmananda commenced a Geeta Jnana Yajna in Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Koramangala on Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living on 7th of Dec, 2022. The Yajna was inaugurated by Smt and Sri K M Rajagopal, one of the members of the Mission. Earlier Smt Chaitanya Satish gave the Yajna a very divine start with her soulful invocation while Sri K Krishnamoorthy, President of the Mission highlighted the activities of the Mission along with the impact of Pujya Gurudev on the Global spiritual community. Swamiji explained that the purpose of all our shastras is to bestow peace and tranquillity of mind. The yagna which will conclude on 14th Dec is sure to ignite the spiritual quest and deepen the love for Mother Gita of all seekers. If you are in the area, do take the time to join in person and benefit from these discourses. ========================================================================= Saturday, Dec...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, October 25, 2022. 08:30. Chapter 7: The Art of Meditation. ========================================================================= Dhyana yoga, or the art of meditation, is the subject of the sixth chapter of the Bhagavadgita. The subject of the collecting of the forces of one's personality into a centre is the great theme of this chapter. The dissipated energies of one's individual personality, which channelise themselves through the senses in the direction of objects, are conserved and raised to a higher level of potency for the purpose of an ascent in a vertical direction, we may say, towards the realisation of the highest Self of the cosmos. So at the very beginning of the chapter we are asked to raise ourselves by our own selves—uddhared atmanatmnam. The self has to be raised by the Self, uplifted by the Self. We ou...

 ====================================================================== 1.PM performing parikrama at the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi, at Rajghat, on the occasion of 76th Independence Day, in Delhi on August 15, 2022. ====================================================================== Monday, August 15, 2022. 10:30. Chapter 6: Universal Action -4. ======================================================================= 2.PM performing parikrama at the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi, at Rajghat, on the occasion of 76th Independence Day, in Delhi on August 15, 2022. Moksha-paryanah—here is another glorious message for us. You have to be yearning for liberation. Your aspiration for moksha is the masterstroke. It is the forte before you in yoga which dissolves the senses, the mind and the intellect at one stroke. As mist dissolves before the sun, the senses, the mind and the intellect dissolve, as it were, in a flow of moksha-consciousness. In this state your soul is surging forth into infin...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Friday, June 24 2022. 06:00. AM. Chapter 6: Universal Action -3. ======================================================================== Now, this is an esoteric teaching which has psycho-biological implications, with a spiritual profundity at the background. The various phases of the moon, which are fifteen in number counted through the bright half and the dark half of the lunar month, as we call it, are connected with the various plexuses in the system of the body, and the digits of the moon are regarded as representative of the digits in the psychic body, which are the plexuses or centres, called the chakras. They are not in the physical body, though they have an impact upon the corresponding centres in the physical body. According to this doctrine, the ajnachakra is the location of the blossomed intellect or the mind when it is fully ...

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Saturday, June 11, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter 6: Universal Action -2. =============================================================== A self-controlled person is also a sense-controlled person, and vice versa. The one is the same as the other, but the matter is not over here. There is an establishment of the mind in pure sattva when there is the withdrawal of sense energy into the mind by way of consideration and an establishment of oneself in non-distracted attention or concentration. All concentration of sense is distracted attention, but the concentration that we attain to when the senses are withdrawn into the mind is not distracted—it is sattvica. Therefore that state is referred to as visuddhtmta. Visuddhtm vijitatma jitendriyah: We become pure in the literal sense, not only in the ethical or social sense. It is not the ethical righteousness that ...

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Tuesday, March 08, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter 6: Universal Action -1. =============================================================== In a single verse which occurs in the fifth chapter of the Bhagavadgita, the gradual stages of the ascent of human perspective are given to us.  "Yoga-yukto visuddhatma vijitatma jitendriyah, sarvabhuttmabhutatma kurvann api na lipyate. Jitendriyah":  ‘One who has restrained the senses.'  This is the definition of a person who has risen above the ordinary prosaic level of attachment to objects. The connection of the senses with objects is so common and apparent that we may almost be said to be living in object-consciousness, and living an object life, a fact that would be obvious. When we analyse our own minds and discover what we are contemplating, all our contemplations are of objects—of this and that and...