Tag: Gita

Question:  Oh Lord, How many different kinds of austerities are there? Swamiji:  Austerities are of three kinds – of body, speech and mind. Worship of Gods, Brahmanas, teachers and liberated souls; to maintain purity of body by cleansing with water and earth; activities performed by the body must be straightforward and simple, uprightness, continence and […]

Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the immortal message emanated from the lotus lips of Lord Himself. For centuries Gita has been held in reverence by saints and scholars all over the world. The eternal teachings of Gita are universal and for the welfare of all, embracing humanity. Gita stands as a beacon light for the salvation […]

When person becomes free of desire, longing, sense of ‘mine’ and ‘me’, he experience sustaining state of peace in him. The root cause is the ego or sense of ‘I’. After letting go of all other things, the ego still remains. Once the sense of ego (‘I’) goes then it is possible to let go […]

Fifteenth Chapter A striver who firmly believes that God is the root cause of this world and He is the noblest Supreme person,  comes to know all and nothing remains to be done for him. One should seek the Supreme person from Whom this world has sprung and has been going on from time immemorial, […]

Eleventh Chapter Everyone can’t behold the divine Universal Form whose vision Arjun enjoyed by God’s grace,  but everyone can see this world as an incarnation of God, and by having faith, can thus have a vision of this Universal Form.   When Arjun requested Lord Krishna to reveal His Cosmic Form,    the Lord by bestowing upon […]

Fourth Chapter There are two methods to dissolve all actions and to be free from their bondage.   They are 1) knowledge of truth about actions, and 2) attainment of knowledge. God creates the Universe,  but He is not bound by actions.   Because He is attached neither to the action,  nor its fruit, nor He has […]