Month: December 2022

22. Divine Manifestations (Glories) in the Gita

proktah karana rupasca saptame tu vibbutayah krs karya karana rupasca nena navame svayam dashame vyakti bhavabhyaam sara mukhyadibhisca vai  sviyah prabhava rupena proktah panch dashe tatha  Lord Krsna in the Gita has described His divine glories in the seventh, ninth, tenth and fifteenth chapters in order to explain to the strivers that in the entire […]

Divine Powers in the Gita

adya gunamayi daivi tathanya divya cinmayi  yoga mayeti ca prokta gitayam panca saktayah  In the Gita there is description of five divine powers:- (1) Mula prakrti (Primordial Nature):- At the time of Final Dissolution all beings enter this Primordial Nature i.e. merge in it (9/7) and at the beginning of creation God wielding this Primordial […]

Duty of Soldiers in the Gita

Indian education teaches us that a man should never be unmanly, faint hearted, cowardly and negligent of his duty, not in  the least bit, rather, he should remain enthusiastic and dutiful in all circumstances. In the twenty sixth verse of the eighteenth chapter while mentioning the marks of the good (Sattvika) agent, the Lord mentions […]

Beneficial Advice for Children

All should wake up before the sunrise.   Immediately on waking up, one must remember God and praise the glories of God by reciting –   tvameva   mata   cha   pita   tvameva;  tvameva bandhuscha sakha tvameva  |   tvameva  vidyaa   dravinam tvameva; tvameva sarvam mama   devadeva  || You alone are my mother […]

Four Stages of Life (Asrama) in the Gita

yatba sarvesu sastresu proktascatvara asramah gitaya na tatba proktah samkete naiva darsitah In the Gita there is a clear description of the four social orders – priest class, warrior class, mercantile class and labor class as ‘The four social orders were created by Me’. (4/13); ‘The duties of Brahmanas, Kshtriyas, Vaisyas and Sudras have been […]

Social Order in the Gita

janmana manyate jaatih karmana manyate krtih  tasmaat svakiya kartavyam paalaniyam prayatnatah   Contact with the modes of nature and actions is responsible for the birth of this soul in good and evil wombs (13/21; 14/16, 18). The attachment to the modes and the evolutes and the past actions decide the nature of a man’s rebirth. The […]