GITA ON EQUANIMITY – PART 4 (EVENNESS OF MIND)

CHAPTER 2 श्रीभगवानुवाच प्रजहाति यदा कामान्सर्वान्पार्थ मनोगतान् । आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते ॥५५॥ śrī-bhagavān uvāca prajahāti yadā kāmān, sarvān pārtha mano-gatān ātmany evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ, sthita-prajñas tadocyate The Blessed Lord said: O Pārtha (Arjuna), when an aspirant abandons all desires arising in the mind and is fully satisfied in the self by his own self, then he […]

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GITA ON EQUANIMITY – PART 3 (EVENNESS OF MIND)

श्रुतिविप्रतिपन्ना ते यदा स्थास्यति निश्चला । समाधावचला बुद्धिस्तदा योगमवाप्स्यसि ॥५३॥ śruti-vipratipannā te, yadā sthāsyati niścalā samādhāv acalā buddhis, tadā yogam avāpsyasi When your intellect, confused by hearing conflicting doctrines of different scriptures, become poised (stable) and gets firmly fixed on God, then you will attain to Yoga (Self-realization or union with God).   53 In the […]

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Gita on Equanimity – Part 2 (Evenness of Mind)

||ShriHari|| Margshirsh Krishna Saptami,  Vikram Samvat 2077, SomvarDecember 7, 2020,  Monday कर्मजं बुद्धियुक्ता हि फलं त्यक्त्वा मनीषिणः । जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ताः पदं गच्छन्त्यनामयम् ॥५१॥ karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi, phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ Janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ, padaṁ gacchanti anāmayam For wise man endowed with equanimity (Samatā), abandoning the desire for fruit of actions (i.e., renouncing the world), freed from the shackles of […]

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Gita on Equanimity (Evenness of Mind) – Part 1

||ShriHari|| Margshirsh Krishna Panchami,  Vikram Samvat 2077, Shanivar December 5, 2020,  Saturday  दूरेण ह्यवरं कर्म बुद्धियोगाद्धनंजय । बुद्धौ शरणमन्विच्छ कृपणाः फलहेतवः ॥४९॥ dūreṇa hy avaraṁ karma, buddhi-yogād dhanañ-jaya buddhau śaranam anviccha, kṛpaṇāḥ phala-hetavaḥ O Dhanañjaya (Arjuna), action performed with a selfish motive is far inferior to that which is performed with the equanimity of mind […]

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Drop of Nectar – Sadhak Sanjivani

||ShriHari|| Respected Swamiji, Shri Ramsukhdasji Maharaj has been a great soul of this era. He has spent his entire life in the study and understanding of the Gita. The Gita is an inherent part of him, he was ‘Gita Personified’. The commentary which he has written on the Gita called ‘Sadhak Sanjeevani’ which is first […]

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Characteristics of a Sattvik Doer

मुक्तसङ्गोऽनहंवादी धृत्युत्साहसमन्वितः । सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योर्निर्विकारः कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥२६॥ mukta-saṅgo ’nahaṁ-vādī dhṛty-utsāha-samanvitaḥ siddhy-asiddhyor nirvikāraḥ kartā sāttvika ucyate Free from attachment and without egotism, endowed with firmness and enthusiasm, unaffected by success or failure– such a doer (Kartā) is said to be Sāttvika. 26 Comment – A person of Sāttvika nature is free from both attachment and […]

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