Mind : ( 24/10/2012. )

Introduction The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna, narrated in the Bhishma-Parva of the Mahabharata. It comprises eighteen chapters of a total of 701 Sanskrit verses. Considerable matter has been condensed and compressed within these verses. On the battle-field of Kurukshetra, Lord Krishna, during the course of His most interesting and instructive talk with Arjuna, revealed the profound, sublime and soul-stirring spiritual truths, and expounded to him the rare secrets of Yoga, Vedanta, Bhakti and Karma. All the teachings of Lord Krishna were subsequently recorded as the Song Celestial or the Bhagavad Gita by Sri Bhagavan Vyasa for the benefit of humanity at large. The world is under a great debt of gratitude to Sri Vyasa who has presented this Celestial Song to humanity for their daily conduct in life, spiritual uplift and Self-realisation. Only those who are self-controlled and are endowed with faith can reap the full benefit of the Gita, which is ...

1. Meditation is the process by which the mind soaring over the summit of the spiritual enquiries loses itself into nothingness. 2. Like the mythological bird, phoenix, which singing its death song, falls down to die in a mass of fire;  3. the mind, out of its own ashes, rises up to a new faculty called intuition, which is the instrument with which the seeker ultimately knows the Self. 4. When mind has thus ended, through meditation, and the Self has become fully aware of itself, then there is no difference here at all. 

1. When your son is in the elementary classes, you have to insist that child should daily read and learn the multiplication table. 2. When he has come to the standard of pure mathematics, it would be absurd if you are to insist  the study of the table. 3. In the primary classes, arithmetic-table is to him, but in the college-classes, it is redundant. 4. Similarly, rituals have an elementary purpose, without which nothing higher possible;  5. but to continue wasting the entire life in mere ritualism, would be terrible wastage,  6. and hence Sruti is trying down such wasteful policies, in the spiritual practice.    

  1. The forgetfulness of our Divine nature is Ignorance. 2. Thus Ignorance ( avidya) manifests itself in the mental plane as desires. 3. Prompted by these desires the mind whips the sense-organs to run their errands in the world of their objects which together are called the Karmas or the Actions by us. 4. It is the 'ignorance'in the plane of the spirit that gets transformed into "desires"in the outer world-of-objects. 5. Ignorance, desire and action------these three are technically termed as the "Knots of the Heart" ( Hrdaya-granthi ) in Vedanta. 6. It is this set of knots that causes the actions; and man, in order to reap the results of his actions, is compelled to take various new forms and independent lives, in varied circumstances of uncertain joys and endless sorrows.

1.Self-realization and the consequent  Joy of Godhood are denied to him:-  a). Who has not turned away from acts of Adharma, b). Who has not brought his senses under control,  c). Whose mind has not, therefore, gained any tranquillity to concentrate; and d). Who has not found in his mind a peace within itself, because of its thudding palpitations and anxieties  regarding the fruits of its actions.   

1. Vasanas: Accumulated impressions of our culture ( samskaram), 2. Vasanas: Four types, they are: a). Janma vasana ( by birth), b). Matha&Pitha ( parents)( kulam), c). Samooha vasana ( from society), d). Anubhava vasana ( experience) 3. Vasanas turn into desires and unfulfilled desires are the products of the past, 4. These vasanas will be followed in janmam (birth), 5. This Janmam ( the present) is available for correction and change the past with the help of intelligence. ............................................................................................................. 6. Imaginations: three types, a). Self imagination, b). Imagination to influence and control others, c). Imagination of a God outside to listen, and solve your problems. 7. Ground reality :  a) Self : I know everything and I am OK and others are not OK: this is false in reality. b). As each mind is unique, independent, and different, hence in realty influence an...

1. When a seeker has developed his power of concentration, he enters, by degrees, into the higher stages of meditation advised by the Sriti, in the various Upanisads, 2. and he ultimately  come to realize his own identity with his own Atma, the light-power-wisdom-source within himself.