This is the 3rd discourse delivered by Poojya Swamiji during the 2024 Guru Poornima Retreat. In this exposition, Swamiji exhorts the listeners to understand that Bhagavad Gita is a ‘Yoga Shastra’ which was given by Sri Krishna to empower and enable Arjuna to fight and win the war.
Every Exhortation in Bhagavad Gita relates to the Mind and Intelligence
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The Importance of Interactional Sadhana
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All-fold sublimation
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Samatva- The Call of the Bhagavad Gita
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Mental Transformation through Poetry
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Karma Yoga through Mind and Intelligence
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Does not viveka, therefore, demand that between the short-living and everlasting goals, the discreet mind should choose the everlasting, not the short-living? Is not then one courting inferiority, downfall, if he refuses to accept buddhi-yoga and prefers to stick to the elusive path of desire-based ritualistic and secular actions?
Read MoreFor the worldly-minded, siddhi and asiddhi relate to worldly efforts. For the seeker, these relate to his sadhana. Equanimity applies to both alike. So, be indifferent or harmonious, and carry on.
Read MoreIt is only to inculcate purity that all the religious and spiritual practices and disciplines have been evolved. Through all these practices, once purity is attained, meditational absorption will become easy and spontaneous.
Read MoreRight from birth, we are slave to our attraction and repulsion towards worldly objects and situations. Our mind constantly undergoes elation, depression, and agitation, depending on whether the objective situation we face is to our liking or disliking. We are fearful of losing what we like and facing what we dislike. Bhagavadgeeta wants us to transform this slavery into mastery by cultivating the “Yoga” attitude.
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