Greetings All, Chapter 2, Anuvakaha # 6, Shloka # 3: He desired, “ I shall become many and be born. He performed tapas; having performed tapas, He created all this whatsoever (we perceive). Having created it, He entered into it. He became the manifest and the unmanifest, the defined and undefined, the housed and the […]
Greetings All, Shloka # 4: भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च। अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा।।7.4।। The earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect and the ego-sense constitute My distinctive eight-fold nature. Continuing his teaching of the Gita, Swami Paramarthananda said, after the first three shlokas of chapter 7, Sri Krishna has now entered the […]
Shloka # 2:7.2 ज्ञानं तेऽहं सविज्ञानमिदं वक्ष्याम्यशेषतः। यज्ज्ञात्वा नेह भूयोऽन्यज्ज्ञातव्यमवशिष्यते।।7.2।। Exhaustively I shall set forth that knowledge together with its realization; once it is grasped, nothing more will remain to be known. Continuing his teaching of the Gita, Swami Paramarthananda said, in the first three shlokas of chapter 7, Sri Krishna is introducing the subject […]
Chapter 2, Anuvakaha # 6, Shloka # 3: He desired, “ I shall become many and be born. He performed tapas; having performed tapas, He created all this whatsoever (we perceive). Having created it, He entered into it. He became the manifest and the unmanifest, the defined and undefined, the housed and the houseless, knowledge […]
(more…)
Namathe: Swamiji has given a special talk for the New Year and the subject of the talk is Glory of Sanatana Dharma. Please listen to this talk by clicking below: New Year 2018 Special Talk (more…)
Greetings All, Ch 2, anuvakaha # 6,shloka #1: If he knows Brahman as non-existent, he becomes himself non-existent. If he knows Brahman as existent, then (they) the world knows him to be existent. Of the former (anandamaya kosa), the Self is the essence. Swamiji said, with the end of anuvakaha # 6, the Upanishad concludes […]
Greetings All, Continuing his teaching of the Gita, Swami Paramarthananda started chapter 7 today. He said Gita consists of 18 chapters and they are divided into three groups. Chapters one through six are known as prathama. Chapters seven through twelve are known as madhyama and chapters thirteen through eighteen are known as charama. Since each […]
Greetings All, Ch 2, Anuvakhaha 5, Shloka # 2: Of that, of the former, this one is verily is the embodied self. Different from this self made up of intellect (vignanamaya) is another self within., formed of bliss (anandamaya). By this, that is filled (by anandamaya the vignanamaya is full). It also has the shape […]
Greetings All, Continuing his teaching of the Gita, Swami Paramarthananda summarized chapter six. It deals with one of the most important topics of spirituality, namely meditation. This chapter is also very important as in the entire body of scriptures it is the only one that has dealt with meditation so extensively. Meditation has two roles […]