Nature of the Wise in the Gita and Importance of the Purification of Nature

||ShriHari|| (4) Nature of the wise:-  The nature of the wise is quite pure. All the wise men (enlightened liberated souls) have purity, renunciation and dispassion etc. equally but their nature and conduct can differ from one another according to their social orders, stages of life and spiritual disciplines. But this difference is not faulty […]

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Gita on Nature according to one’s Social Order and Self Made Nature

||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 […]

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Description of Nature (Temperament) in the Gita

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 […]

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Convictions of the Persons of Divine & Demoniac Traits

||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 […]

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Different Convictions in the Gita

||ShriHari||   3. Sanjaya’s conviction Sanjaya already knew Lord Krishna’s glory and influence but by perceiving the Lord’s special grace on Arjuna, he was specially influenced. So he declares his verdict, “Wherever there is Krishna, the Lord of yoga and wherever there is Arjuna, the wielder of the bow, there are goodness, victory, glory and unfailing […]

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Arjuna’s Conviction in the Gita

||ShriHari|| Mar 7, 2018, Wednesday In the context of the yoga of meditations, Arjuna regarding the restlessness of mind as an obstacle to the attainment of yoga in the form of equanimity, mentions his conviction.  The mind verily is restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate. I consider it as difficult to control as the wind (6/34 […]

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