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Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
« Reply #15 on: September 17, 2009, 12:37:44 AM »
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    “Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve... Learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. Cultivate vigor, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Then, you will achieve your destiny.”
                                                                                                                   ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita


    This is exactly opposite of what a person dedicated to material life would do.

    If we surrender to the Guru, he automatically endows us with the qualities enumerated in the verse above. But without a Guru, a person has the qualities which are opposite to these.

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #16 on: September 18, 2009, 06:44:15 PM »
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  • Temperance of a Yogi

    “Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.”
                                                                                            ~Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

    “The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.”
                                                                                            ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #17 on: September 19, 2009, 04:04:25 AM »
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  • Temperance of a Yogi

    “Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.”
                                                                                            ~Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita


    This is the sadhana for a sadhaka who is trying to attain the Brahman (God) by meditation. By following this, a sadhaka will find great joy within himself, since the Lord nicely settles in his contemplation. However once he becomes a Siddha, he does not need to eat or sleep at all, since he is Brahman & not a human being.

    “The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.”
                                                                                            ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

    This is desireless action. Lord Krishna says that a person who performs desireless action has no fear. He appears to do all actions just like materialists, but there is a huge difference in his doing action. The materialist foolishly puts his entire weight behind achieving something & becomes extremely happy when he attains it & extremely dejected when he fails to achieve what he is looking for. But a Karma-Yogi has nothing to do with the result of action. He does everything remembering the Lord, who is his object of happiness

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #18 on: September 21, 2009, 05:46:01 PM »
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  • “When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering, like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.”
                                                                                      ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #19 on: September 21, 2009, 05:50:13 PM »
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  • An eternal portion of Myself, having become a living soul in the world of life, draws to itself the mind
    and the five senses that rest in Nature.
    Three are the gates of this hell leading to the ruin of the soul—lust, wrath and greed. Therefore let man
    renounce these three.
    The man who has escaped these three gates of darkness, O Arjuna, works out his own good and
    reaches the highest state.

    —Bhagavad-Gita

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #20 on: September 24, 2009, 08:03:11 AM »
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  • “When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering, like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.”
                                                                                      ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita


    Again this thing meditation is a great thing. Let us see what it means. Normally we find people in the world moving here & there & doing something or other, as it comes to their mind. They mind is extremely fickle & they get strongly distracted by anything that they perceive with their senses.  This is the cause of their misery. Their mind pulls them in all directions, & poor fellows spend a very restless life.

    On the other hand a person who has steadied in meditation, is not much aware of things happening around him. Since he is introverted & his mind is absorbed on his object of meditation (Sai baba). If for some reason, he is not allowed to hold his object of mediation in his mind, then he feels that he is missing something.

    e.g. A person who has steadied in meditation & stands in front of a tap with water flowing from it. He can continue to be in that state. But if a restless person comes there, he will immediately object to the water being wasted.

    Again for meditation it is not necessary that a person be sitting in one place. He can practice meditation while doing his worldly duties. All he needs to do is to 'carry' his object of meditation in his mind, wherever he is or whatever he is doing.

    It is only when mind becomes still like the lamp in a windless place, that one can recognize his real identity (i.e. Brahman). Because restlessness is the work of Maya & only she has created (unnecessarily) all the names & forms out of what is one - Brahman.

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #21 on: September 24, 2009, 05:28:33 PM »
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  • Hi v2birit,i am just following your comments on gita..its simply wonderful...many thanks

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #22 on: September 24, 2009, 05:30:16 PM »
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  • “Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.” ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #23 on: October 01, 2009, 09:22:45 AM »
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  • “Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the supreme goal of life. Do your work with the welfare of others always in mind.” ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

    The Supreme Goal of life is to get the realisation of the self. That certainly cannot be attained so long as a person is in the concept of I & MY i.e. ego & affection.  By having I & Mine, he is in a miserable state.
    Lord Krishna advises us to destroy this narrow feeling of I & MINE & realise that we are the whole world itself. The activities that can help us go near this realisation include selfless service to others, without entertaining the sense of doership. Lord Krishna has said in the Bhagwat Purana that a person should always be like a tree, which always is beneficial for all.

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #24 on: October 01, 2009, 09:43:01 AM »
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  • An eternal portion of Myself, having become a living soul in the world of life, draws to itself the mind
    and the five senses that rest in Nature.

    —Bhagavad-Gita

    This is how the Universe is created. The eternal portion that Lord Krishna is describing is the Brahman. It is the sole reality.
        Now Maya is the great artist, who creates the world with it's names & forms. The Mountains, Valleys, Sun, Moon, creatures etc. etc. , whatever we can see is the artistic work of Maya. Just as coins are created out of metal in a mint or just as out of milk we can create so many different delicacies such as curd, butter, buttermilk, yogurt, ice cream, paneer, lassi etc. etc. , similarly MAYA has created the different names & forms in the world out of one common thing BRAHMAN.
        MAYA not only creates the gross things(that can be seen) but also creates subtle things such as the mind, intellect, memory, wisdom etc. etc. Infact the order in which these things are created is as follows
    BRAHMAN --> MAHAT --> BUDDHI --> MIND --> AHAMKARA --> BODY & SENSES

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #25 on: October 13, 2009, 06:21:04 PM »
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  • "Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart". ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

    "Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives"
    . ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita


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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #26 on: October 21, 2009, 07:16:22 AM »
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  • "Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart". ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

    We are not at all different from Lord Krishna !!!! Why then we are not able to recognize ourselves. because somebody has fooled us. It is Maya who has done this. She has given us what we call the mind which gives rise to ideas & imagination. This prevents us from recognizing our true self.  However by stilling this mind in one thing, the God, causes the person to regain his lost identity.

    "Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives". ~ Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

    Nobody can recognize his original identity, without the compassion of the Supreme Lord himself. Those Jivas whose store of merit is high & whose bad actions have come to a minimum win the grace of Lord & by his grace they get a Sadguru, who will destroy the ignorance (avidya) caused by Maya.

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #27 on: October 24, 2009, 06:17:36 PM »
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  • ~ Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire. ~

    ~ When your mind becomes fixed on Me, you shall overcome all difficulties by My grace. But, if you do not listen to Me due to ego, you shall perish. ~
                                                               -Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #28 on: October 26, 2009, 12:45:36 AM »
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  • ~ Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire. ~

    Very true. People suffer in the world only because of ignorance (i.e. not knowing what is good for them & what is bad.) But the Lamp of wisdom & knowledge does not dawn internally in anybody, who is hankering after selfish desire. His state is like that of a parrot, who is trying to come out of the cage by pulling the door in the wrong direction. Another analogy would be, a goat who is tied to a pole with the rope of Selfishness. Cut this rope & become free.

    ~ When your mind becomes fixed on Me, you shall overcome all difficulties by My grace. But, if you do not listen to Me due to ego, you shall perish. ~
                                                               -Lord Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita

    One who tries to fix his mind on the Lord, does not suffer from material miseries. The worldly troubles act very less powerfully on him. He becomes like a king & enjoys peace & Lord's Love internally.

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    Re: The Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
    « Reply #29 on: November 03, 2009, 06:36:49 PM »
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  • “The power of God is with you at all times; through
    the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is
    constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument.”-Bhagavad Gita

     


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