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Session 01 of Nutan Swamiji during the Bhagavad Gita Retreat organized by CIRD-NA during USA Jnana Yajna 2025.

Date: 12 June 2025
Venue: Fairfield Inn 15011, Newport Ave, Tustin CA 92780

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Swamiji begins the Satsang discussing the revolutionary text — Bhagavad Gita. One may not be endowed with the qualities of a seeker (Sadhana Chatushtaya), nor be inclined towards meditation, but Bhagavad Gita offers a pursuit that can be practiced every moment of one’s life.

The goal of meditation is to know one’s own identity. This goal should extend to the interactional life also. Seekers must bring spirituality into all their activities and interactions. With an expansive mindset, the dimensions of the Atma should be established in the interactional life.

Instead of considering activities as a hindrance, one must use them as instruments for liberation, by transforming the mind and intelligence. For this purpose, Bhagavad Gita presents various models, which will lead us to universal expansion. The 14th chapter presents the three-guna model, which analyses the personality in terms of the three gunas and shows how to transcend the bondage created by them.

The three gunas, Sattva, rajas, and tamas, belong to Nature. They are the cause of bondage. Sattva guna is pure and of the nature of knowledge; it binds one by causing Sanga (delusional clinging) to happiness and knowledge. Rajo guna is of the nature of desire and passion. Arising from greed and clinging, it binds one through clinging to activity. Tamo guna is born of ignorance. Deluding the human, it binds us by inattention, laziness, and sleep.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
31:50 - अहो बत महत्पापं कर्तुं व्यवसिता वयम्…Bhagavad Gita 1.45
43:46 - न तदस्ति पृथिव्यां वा दिवि देवेषु वा पुन: ...Bhagavad Gita 18.40
48:09 - सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणा: प्रकृतिसम्भवा: ...Bhagavad Gita 14.5
51:59 - तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् ...Bhagavad Gita 14.6
52:12 - रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् ... Bhagavad Gita 14.7
52:27 - तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्...Bhagavad Gita 14.8

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