Gita For Daily Living

Episode 252: Chapter 9, verses 28, 29 and 30

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 28, 29 and 30

Lecture discusses Krishna’s promise of equal opportunity to all human beings to become one with the Supreme Self even to those who are fallen in the life of sin or disadvantaged by circumstances. By simply offering all our actions to God we can free ourselves from all limitedness and sorrows as he is same to all.

Episode 251: Chapter 9, verses 25, 26 and 27

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 25, 26 and 27

Lecture discusses Lord Krishna’s promise that he accepts anything offered to him with true devotion by his devotee a leaf, a flower, a fruit or a spoonful of water.

Episode 250: Chapter 9, verses 22, 23 and 24

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 22, 23 and 24

Lecture discusses why just doing good is not good enough without the knowledge of our relationship with the Supreme Self.

Episode 249: Chapter 9, verses 18 - 21

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 18_ 19_20­_and 21

Lecture discusses futility of expecting permanent happiness by fulfilling desires no matter how noble the desires are. Once the existing desires are fulfilled you have to start working to fulfill new desires which are created in the process.

Episode 248: Chapter 9, verses 15, 16 and 17

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 15_ 16­_and 17

Lecture discusses various paths to realize God who is the father, the mother and the grandfather of every being in this world.

Episode 247: Chapter 9, verses 11 - 14

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 11_ 12­_13 and 14

Lecture discusses why we fail to recognize presence of God in our life. Seeking infinite Happiness in the material world through accomplishments and achievements amounts to futile efforts for vain hopes.

Episode 246: Chapter 9, verses 7 - 10

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 7, 8, 9 and 10

Lecture discusses why God is not responsible for any action performed by any being even though no action can take place without his presence.

Episode 245: Chapter 9, verses 4,5 and 6

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 4, 5, & 6

Lecture discusses our relationship-less relation with our creator and the profound declaration by Lord Krishna that all being are in the Supreme Self and but the Supreme Self is not in them.

Episode 244: Chapter 9, verses 1, 2 and 3

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 9 “Yoga of Royal Knowledge & Royal Secret” Verses 1, 2, & 3

Lecture discusses Lord Krishna’s statement that the knowledge of the self is the Royal Knowledge and it is also a Royal Secret knowing which one gets liberated from all inauspiciousness in life.

Episode 243: Chapter 8, verses 22 - 28

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 8 “Yoga of Imperishable Brahman” Verses 22 through 28

Lecture discusses two eternal paths of spiritual evolution – one is the path of return to this world of limited existence and the other is the path of liberation.

Episode 242: Chapter 8, verses 19, 20 and 21

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 8 “Yoga of Imperishable Brahman” Verses 19,20, and 21

Lecture discusses the highest goal of human life to achieve the state of being one with the unmanifest and the imperishable. Those who reach it never again return to this state of imperfection and limitedness.

Episode 241: Chapter 8, verses 15 - 18

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 8 “Yoga of Imperishable Brahman” Verses 15,16, 17 and 18

Lecture discusses the permanency of our existence and its relationship to the creator’s night and day.

Episode 240: Chapter 8, verses 12, 13 and 14

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 8 “Yoga of Imperishable Brahman” Verses 12,13 and 14

Lecture discusses the cause of our unhappiness and the path prescribed by Lord Krishna to achieve permanent happiness.

Episode 239: Chapter 8, verses 9, 10 and 11

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 8 “Yoga of Imperishable Brahman” Verses 9,10 and 11

Lecture discusses the milestone verses in Gita which describe the nature of the supreme and also gives us path how to identify with him.

Episode 238: Chapter 8, verses 5 - 8

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 8 “Yoga of Imperishable Brahman” Verses 5,6,7 and 8

Lecture discusses how the remembrance of the Supreme Self at the time of death liberates the embodied Jiva. Constant remembrance is the only way to ensure that one will remember the supreme self at the last moment.

Episode 237: Chapter 8, verses 1, 2 and 3

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 8 “Yoga of Imperishable Brahman” Verses 1, 2 ,3 and 4

Lecture discusses the seven terms Arjuna wanted to learn from Krishna - Brahman, Adhyatma, Karma, Adhibhtam, Adhidaivam, Purushah, & AdhiYajna.

Episode 236: Chapter 7, verses 28,29 and 30

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 7 “Yoga of Knowledge & Wisdom” Verses 28, 29, & 30

Lecture discusses the concluding verses of this chapter describing the qualities of a seeker who will reach the supreme by crossing over the pairs of opposites- likes and dislikes.

Episode 235: Chapter 7, verses 25,26 and 27

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 7 “Yoga of Knowledge & Wisdom” Verses 25, 26, & 27

Lecture discusses why we do not recognize God’s presence. Delusion created by desire and aversion veils the identity of the true self in all beings right from their births.

Episode 234: Chapter 7, verses 22, 23 and 24

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 7 “Yoga of Knowledge & Wisdom” Verses 22, 23, & 24

Lecture discusses nature of faith and how un-manifest God remains un-manifest in spite of his of manifestations in the eightfold Prakriti (Nature).The one who does not know his supreme nature mistakenly takes him to become finite in various manifestations.

Episode 233: Chapter 7, verses 19, 20 and 21

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 7 “Yoga of Knowledge & Wisdom” Verses 19, 20, & 21

Lecture discusses why a wise person is much closer to God than other devotees. It also discusses what distracts us from achieving lasting peace and happiness which is our true nature.