Daily Spiritual Insights from Swami Ji's Teachings
||ShriHari|| Arjuna: What is the loss by having this relish (taste) to enjoy sense objects? Answer: O Kuntinandana (Arjuna), turbulent by nature “the senses” even of a wise man, (who is practicing self-control) forcibly carry away his mind to the sense-objects. (Gita 2:60) Arjuna: What should be done to do away with this taste? Krishna: […]
||ShriHari|| Question: “What is the mark of a man of steady wisdom, one who is stable of mind and established in equanimity?” The Lord spoke: When a man abandons all cravings of the mind is satisfied in the self by the Self, then He is called a man of steady wisdom (sthithprajya). (Gita 2:54-55) Question: […]
||ShriHari|| Description of Nature (Temperament) in the Gita (Cont’d) It is nature which enables a person to win praise, respect and honour. A person belonging to a high social order and stage of life, holding high rank and position can’t win real praise, respect and honour if his nature is bad. People may be afraid […]
||ShriHari|| (2) Nature According to One’s Social Order:- This sort of personal nature is decided by birth according to a person’s social order-priest class, warrior class, trading class and labour class. This nature is not faulty and sinful. The nature of the members of four social orders is different according to their duties (actions). There […]
Caturvidhah savabhaavasca praakrto varngasta thaa I utpaaditasca sangena suddhasca jnaaninaam smrtah II In the Gita there is description of the four types of nature:- (I) General Nature Pertaining to Prakrti:- Germination of plants, trees and their growlh; birth, childhood, youth, old age of human beings, birds and beasts, strength and weakness of bodies and such […]
||ShriHari|| 7. Convictions of the Persons of Divine & Demoniac Traits The men possessing divine traits knowing God as the source of all beings and the imperishable, with a single mind (renouncing the desire for pleasures here or here after) worship Him (9/13). The men of demoniac traits hold the opinion that in the world […]