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Date: 14 October 2023
Venue: CIRD Jamshedpur
Jamshedpur Sadhana Shibiram 2023

In this series of talks, Swamiji discusses Karma yoga and buddhi yoga of the Bhagavad Gita, where the focus is on performing all activities with a yoga attitude. Bhagavad Gita introduces various methods of anchoring the intelligence in the Self, such as Asangatva, Yajna bhava, Samatva, transcending gunas, and surrender.

Presenting the three-guna model, Sri Krishna says that no one is beyond the ken of the three gunas of Nature. These gunas are present in the human personality in varying degrees at different times. But there is a possibility of reshaping one’s guna constitution and even transcending the gunas.

Each guna causes bondage. Sattva guna leads to understanding, knowledge, and purity, but it also binds through clinging to sukha and jnana. Rajo guna leads to fragmented vision and preferential clinging and enhances greed and induces desire-motivated activities. Tamo guna leads to inattention, lethargy, and delusion.

A wise person conquers rajas and tamas by cultivating sattva guna and transcends Sattva guna bondage through non-expectation or surrender. Surrender means that he has no desire for anything, anytime, from anybody, from anywhere.

Wise people never get entangled by the gunas. They understand that Nature’s gunas (in the form of senses) are interacting with gunas (world objects) and hence do not cling to anything. Those who surrender to the Supreme Lord overcome the bondage of the gunas and attain Brahman.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
4:58 – न तदस्ति पृथिव्यां वा दिवि देवेषु वा पुन: …Bhagavad Gita 18.40
8:05 - तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् ... Bhagavad Gita 14.6
14:25 – योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः Patanjali Yogasutra 1.2
15:31 - ईश्वरप्रणिधानाद्वा ॥ Patanjali Yogasutra 1.23
18:55 - तस्माद् देहमिमं लब्ध्वा ज्ञानविज्ञानसम्भवम् ... Bhagavatam 11.25.33
29:16 - नि:सङ्गो मां भजेद् विद्वानप्रमत्तो जितेन्द्रिय: ...Bhagavatam 11.25.34
32:00 - सत्त्वं चाभिजयेद् युक्तो नैरपेक्ष्येण शान्तधी: ...Bhagavatam 11.25.35
34:51 - निरपेक्षं मुनिं शान्तं निर्वैरं समदर्शनम्... Bhagavatam 11.14.16
38:47 - रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् ... Bhagavad Gita 14.7
43:21 - तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम् ... Bhagavad Gita 14.8
51:37 - तत्त्ववित्तु महाबाहो गुणकर्मविभागयो: ...Bhagavad Gita 3.28
53:50 - मां च योऽव्यभिचारेण भक्तियोगेन सेवते ... Bhagavad Gita 14.26

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