Monday, November 10, 2008

Bhagavad Gita


There can not be anything superior than word of god, (the Bhagavad-Gita)

The Bhagavad-Gita is the Gospel of Hinduism,so scientific and one of the great religious classics. Its simple, vivid message is a daily inspiration in the lives of millions throughout the world and has been so for countless generations. Its real Knowledge.

Perhaps the greatest piece of truly inspired spiritual literature ever written. Considered by many to be the epitome of the vast collection of writings that is Vedanta. Its the story of Lord Krishna's holy teachings and advice to a warrior whose heart is in great distress and suffering on the eve of battle. And aren't we all also on the eve of the battle of daily life? Lord Krishna explains the various ways a person can seek and find and know God and live blissfully.

The Bhagavad-gita is in seven hundred Sanskrit verses and consists of eighteen chapters.
The colophon of each chapter towards its end gives a brief idea of the content of the chapter. This classification would make one feel that the Bhagavad-gita deals with eighteen subjects. But actually each chapter has something to say about certain other things also apart from the main intention of the chapter as indicated in the colophon. So True,Further, on a reading of the entire Gita, even several times, it is likely that one may miss the true import of the teaching in as much as it is not easy to stratify in a serial or consecutive order the developmental process of thought in the Gita.. It helps you cross the mind limits and reach new levels, its spoken by God himself. there's nothing beyond Lord Krishna, nothing before him and nothing in between, Krishna is everything, everywhere, ever existing, endless, with no beginning, no middle, no end to it, its beyond the human senses and can be felt and understood only by devotion.

The International Society of Krishna Consciousness (Iskon) is one such organisation which is all about the Hare Krishna movement

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Analytical Study of the field of activity

  • "One who can see that all activities are performed by the body, which is created of material nature, and sees that the self does nothing, actually sees" - Lord Krishna
  • "Those with the vision of eternity can see that the imperishable soul is transcendental, eternal, and beyond the modes of nature. Despite contact with the material body the soul neither does anything nor is entangled" - Lord Krishna
  • "As the sun illuminates all this universe, so does the living entity, one within the body illuminate the entire body by consciousness" - Lord Krishna

These above contents make me realise and feel as if we all human beings are not living in a real world, this is not the real world, this world seems to be only a shadow of the real thing, otherwise why lord krishna would have said that the self does nothing and all activities are performed by the body, a creation of material nature, it means we are different from our bodies, our true identity is not the body and its something else, and that something else obviously doesnt belong to this world. And that something else is bound to be eternal (thats why don't we all human beings have that feeling deep within ourselves that we are going to live permenantly, I mean with the passage of time we never get that feeling that our existence is temperory, even though our body keeps changing from childhood to youth to old age, so true, if we really give a thought that the living entity (soul) within the body illuminates our entire body by consciousness as told by Lord Krishna, believe me, this book Bhagavad Gita is actually scientific, its the supreme science. In chapter "Nature, the enjoyer and Consciousness" in the Bhagavad Gita, all information is scientifically given about our body and its actions and reactions. Lord Krishna says "Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses and mind, happiness and distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, non-violence, equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, fame and infamy - all these various qualities of living beings are created by me alone"

This means that these all above things are creations of the supreme lord, our material science has still not been able to prove from where these different emotions have come into being, its further clearly mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita "The five great elements - Earth, Water, Fire, air and ether, the false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses - eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin, voice, legs, hands, anus and genitals, and the mind, the five sense objects - smell, taste, form, touch and sound, and desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate, the life symptoms, and convictions - all these are considered in summary to be the field of activities (Body) and its interactions" , now further there is something called "knowledge" which is bestowed to this field of activity (our body). Lord Krishna says "Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bonafide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness, self control, renunciatioin of the objects of sense gratification, absensce of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease, detachment, freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest, even mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events, constant and unalloyed devotion to me, aspiring to live in solitary place, detachment from the general mass of people, accepting the importance of self realisation and philosophical search for the absolute truth - all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance", now all these things are said to be the real knowledge and lastly within our body is the supersoul, the beginningless and endless, all pervading, which is without senses, unattached, one who transcends the 3 modes of material nature, the supreme personality, the supersoul which is knowledge, the object of knowledge and the goal of knowledge, situated in everyones heart

So all above gives a brief analytical description of the human body and its contents which also includes the emotion side. Now this human body and the soul within comes in contact with the 3 modes of material nature - modes of goodness, passion and ignorance and gets contaminated, all causes, actions, effects are due to nature and not the soul or the field of activity, where as the living entity is the cause of all suffering and enjoyments due to getting in contact with the 3 modes, thus living entity in material nature follows different ways of life enjoying the three modes of nature and thus he meets with good and evil among various species.

Lord Krishna says " Whatever we see in existence both moving and nonmoving is only a combination of field of activities and the knower of the field"

Hence Lord says that "one who can see that all activities are performed by the body, which is created of material nature and sees that the self does nothing, actually sees"

WOW................

Monday, November 3, 2008

Really Interesting.....


  • With Intelligence one should seek out the constitutional position of the soul and then engage mind always in 'Krishna Consciousness', this solves the whole problem

  • Don't let the passage of 'day time and night time' effect your neutral/blissful position, how it sounds if we consider day time and night time together as ONE Single day and act accordingly

  • Attain spiritual happiness and not material happiness as material happiness is temperory and spiritual happiness is far superior

  • If, If we are truly concerned and love our loved ones, so why should we suffer when our loved ones leave there old / used bodies?, on the contrary they are getting new bodies ful of energy

  • You can succeed only if you know more than others

  • So, how could be Gods Nature?, what must be his nature like?, well may be this helps - "when one properly sees that in all activities, no other performer is at work other then the 3 modes of nature - goodness, passion, ignorance and when one knows that God is transcendental and beyond these 3 modes of nature then one attains Gods nature and knows the nature of God"

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Above contents seem to be so effective if applied in day to day life giving us fantastic results....