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the Gita is not a book of commandments but a book of choices.
My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.
The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
The Grhasta blessed if house a bliss, wife speaks sweetly,
If wealth satisfies desire, sons able, enjoys wife's company;
If servants obedient, has hospitality, Lord worshiped daily,
Delicious food, drink shared, finds joy in devotees' company.
[209] 12.1 Chanakya
Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
The Bhagavad-Gita changes this. It takes the Warrior Ethos and elevates it to a loftier and nobler plane - the plane of the individual's inner life, to his struggle to align himself with his own higher nature.
Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.
Who everywhere is free from all ties, who neither rejoices nor sorrows if fortune is good or ill, his is a serene wisdom.
Intro to Part 3, Chapter 1. Credit was given to The Bhagavad Gita.
The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
Therefore the Gita is not for those who have no faith. The author makes Krishna say: 'Do not entrust this treasure to him who is without sacrifice, without devotion, without the desire for this teaching and who denies Me. On
The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
One who turns his face towards Bhagwan [God], turns towards him; he will receive the bliss and the light. God does not do anything else.
An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.
In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of consecrated action.
Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)
All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it
Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.
It [the Quit India Resolution] was very far from being the Gita, but like Gita it suffered from flood of explanations, commentaries, and interpretations.
Hare Krishna, Peace and Love
What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway.
Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire ...
The Bhagavad Gita
that ancient Indian Yogic text
says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.
Krishna taught in the Bhadavad Gita: 'karmanyeva-adhikaraste ma phalesu kadachana', which means, 'Be active, never be inactive, and don't react to the outcome of the work.
Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.
I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.
Nor is the Gita a collection of do's and dont's. What is lawful for one may be unlawful for another. What may be permissible at one time, or in one place, may not be so at another time, and in another place. Desire for fruit is the only universal prohibition. Desirelessness is obligatory.
Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge." Sri
When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.
God is the source of life, honour and wealth.
understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word 'trustee'.
Krishna says in the Gita, The worst crime in the world is indecision.
To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154)
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My worship is of a very strange kind.
In this, Ganga water is not required.
No special utensils are necessary.
Even flowers are redundant.
In this puja all gods have disappeared.
And emptiness has emerged with euphoria.
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.
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"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own."
Claude Bragdon
No mention, no tension, free mind."
-Bhima
The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
Yam hi na vyathayanthy,
ete purusan purursarsabha,
Sama-dhuka-sugam dhirm
so mrtavaya kalpate - Bhagavt Gita
"The person who is not disturbed by happiness or distress and steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation
One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts; one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation].
...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....
In meditation ... the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.
By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.
That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).
God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering of mantra, closing one's eyes; Meditation.
When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.
Man has obeyed commands of the Mother, the Father, the Guru; but he has not obeyed the commands of 'God' (Bhagwan). Had he obeyed 'God's' commands, his work (for liberation) would have been accomplished. Alas! He will follow his boss's commands and even his wife's commands!
The Agna, liberating instructions of the 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance.
Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.
By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.
reliquary of time
Great God.
Glorious God.
Gracious God.
Dada talks with you, it is everything, it includes everything, it belongs to all religions, can be neither victory nor defeat, it lives in space and not in time.
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
People don't realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart." J. Krishnamurti. "The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.
Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti
Truth is one though the sages know it as many
Babaji : To Be Guided Always To Guide Forever
P.C.M. Hermans
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September 24, 2016
Amen
God
The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.
Kaballah. The soul's path. It's an ancient way of understanding God.
Thou hast come into being by the toil; the work of the gods thou art the way of holy order. With the Vasus, the gods, as deity, with the Gayatri metre I yoke thee, with the spring season as oblation I consecrate thee. - Yajur Veda, Taittiriya Samhita, Khand VII 1.18
In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view.
If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
I am god, I ruled to the whole world. Anybody obey my rules and regulations, I gave them wealth, prosperity and my blessings, if anybody rejects my orders I will give them negative blessings" said the god.
A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.
Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.
Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.
God is an Indian giver who gives only occasionally.
You have to feed your mind daily with the good, clean, pure, powerful and positive.
Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
The people find great solace in the idea of a personal God whose grace, obtained through devotion, can overpower the shackles of karma and samsara. The
See karma, make dharma
The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.
In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided. To realize fully this lack of division is to become enlightened.
My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.
For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha
The sum total of karma is God.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
A yogi realizes the divinity in him and the divinity that is present in this world. In his own heartbeat and his own regular breath he feels the flow of all the seasons and the throbbing touch of universal life.
Let us see rather that like Janus - or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death - religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy ...
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
If you keep the burden on your head, God (Bhagwan) will move away.
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
I want to contrast this ceramic image of the world with the distinctly different dramatic image that is the presiding image of the Hindus. Their idea is that God did not make the world, but acted it. That is to say, every person and every thing is a role or part that the Godhead is playing.
All religions teach one basic discipline - the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joys.
Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).
Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.
High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.
Pitiful are those who, acting, are attached to their action's fruits. The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone. ~ Bhagavad Gita, c. 400 BCE ~ 2:49-50
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.