Essence of Bhagavad Gita

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) Regulation of diet and sleep is recommended herein for the  yogis.  Too much eating means eating more than is required to keep the body and soul together. There is no need for men to eat animals because there is an ample supply of grains, vegetables,...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) "Sacred place" refers to places of pilgrimage. In India the  yogis,  the transcendentalists or the devotees all leave home and reside in sacred places such as Prayag, Mathura, Vrndavana, Hrsikesa, and Hardwar and in solitude practice  yoga ...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) Actually, every living entity is intended to abide by the dictation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is seated in everyone's heart as Paramatma. When the mind is misled by the external illusory energy, one becomes entangled in material activities. The...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) The word  atma  denotes body, mind and soul—depending upon different circumstances. In the  yoga  system, the mind and the conditioned soul are especially important. Since the mind is the central point of  yoga  practice,  atm...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) In this chapter the Lord explains that the process of the eightfold  yoga  system is a means to control the mind and the senses. However, this is very difficult for people in general to perform, especially in the age of Kali. Although the eightfold&nb...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) Being engaged in Krsna consciousness, one can immediately understand one's spiritual identity, and then one can understand the Supreme Lord by means of devotional service. When he is well situated in devotional service, one comes to the transcendental position,...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) lf one wants to make steady progress on the path of self-realization, he must try to control the forces of the material senses. There are the forces of talk, forces of anger, forces of mind, forces of the stomach, forces of the genitals, and forces of the tongu...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) Equanimity of mind, as mentioned above, is the sign of self-realization. Those who have actually attained to such a stage should be considered to have conquered material conditions, specifically birth and death. As long as one identifies with this body, he is c...

The Sanskrit word  vibhuh  means the Supreme Lord who is full of unlimited knowledge, riches, strength, fame, beauty and renunciation. He is always satisfied in Himself, undisturbed by sinful or pious activities. He does not create a particular situation for any living entity, but the living entity, bewildered by ignorance, desires to be put into certain conditions of life, and thereby h...

By acting in Krsna consciousness for the satisfaction of the senses of Krsna, any action, whether of the body, mind, intelligence or even of the senses, is purified of material contamination. There are no material reactions resulting from the activities of a Krsna conscious person. Therefore, purified activities, which are generally called  sadacara , can be easily performed by acting in Krsn...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) There are two classes of  sannyasis,  or persons in the renounced order of life. The Mayavadi  sannyasis  are engaged in the study of  sankhya  philosophy, whereas the Vaisnava  sannyasis  are engaged in the study of&nbsp...

In this Fifth Chapter of the  Bhagavad-gita,  the Lord says that work in devotional service is better than dry mental speculation. Devotional service is easier than the latter because, being transcendental in nature, it frees one from reaction. In the Second Chapter, preliminary knowledge of the soul and its entanglement in the material body were explained. How to get out of this materia...

Equanimity of mind, as mentioned above, is the sign of self-realization. Those who have actually attained to such a stage should be considered to have conquered material conditions, specifically birth and death. As long as one identifies with this body, he is considered a conditioned soul, but as soon as he is elevated to the stage of equanimity through realization of self, he is liberated from co...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) Such knowledge in Krsna consciousness can be achieved by a faithful person who believes firmly in Krsna. One is called a faithful man who thinks that, simply by acting in Krsna consciousness, he can attain the highest perfection. This faith is attained by the d...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) The result of receiving knowledge from a self-realized soul, or one who knows things as they are, is learning that all living beings are parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krsna. The sense of a separated existence from Krsna is ca...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) Whatever form of material existence one is in, one is invariably ignorant of his real situation. In other words, existence in the material world is due to the multiple reactions to our sinful lives. Ignorance is the cause of sinful life, and sinful life is the...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) The  yoga  system conceived by Patanjali is referred to herein. In the  Yoga-sutra  of Patanjali, the soul is called  pratyag-atma  and  parag-atma.  As long as the soul is attached to sense enjoyment, it is called ...

Join Secrets of Success on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas Join LIVE session on SAVAJI ONLINE YouTube Channel every Sunday at 11am (IST) How activities in Krsna consciousness can lead one ultimately to the spiritual goal is described here. There are various activities in Krsna consciousness, and all of them will be described in the following verses. But, for the present, just the principle of Kr...

This freedom from the bondage of actions is possible only in Krsna consciousness when one is doing everything for Krsna. A Krsna conscious person acts out of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore he has no attraction for the results of the action. He is not even attached to his personal maintenance, for everything is left to Krsna. Nor is he anxious to secure things, nor...

There are two classes of men. Some of them are full of polluted material things within their hearts, and some of them are materially free. Krsna consciousness is equally beneficial for both of these persons. Those who are full of dirty things can take to the line of Krsna consciousness for a gradual cleansing process, following the regulative principles of devotional service. Those who are already...

There is a great misconception about the gods or demigods of this material world, and men of less intelligence, although passing as great scholars, take these demigods to be various forms of the Supreme Lord. Actually, the demigods are not different forms of God, but they are God's different parts and parcels. God is one, and the parts and parcels are many. The  Vedas  say,  nityo n...

Arjuna is an accepted devotee of the Lord, so how could he not believe Krsna's words? The fact is that Arjuna is not inquiring for himself but for those who do not believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead or for the demons who do not like the idea that Krsna should be accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead; for them only Arjuna inquires on this point, as if he were himself not aware o...

This freedom from the bondage of actions is possible only in Krsna consciousness when one is doing everything for Krsna. A Krsna conscious person acts out of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore he has no attraction for the results of the action. He is not even attached to his personal maintenance, for everything is left to Krsna. Nor is he anxious to secure things, nor...

Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/rasajnadas to receive daily positive thoughts. Herein we find the history of the  Bhagavad-gita  traced from a remote time when it was delivered to the royal order, the kings of all planets. This science is especially meant for the protection of the inhabitants and therefore the royal order should understand it in order to be able to rule the citizens an...

The Lord advised Arjuna to regulate the senses from the very beginning so that he could curb the greatest sinful enemy, lust, which destroys the urge for self-realization, and specifically, knowledge of the self.  Jnanam  refers to knowledge of self as distinguished from non-self, or, in other words, knowledge that the spirit soul is not the body.  Vijnanam  refers to specific...