Tag: Bhagavad Gita

(Image Courtesy Mahanidhiswami) Staying Focused on the Path of Svadharma Helps Us to Stay on the Path of Dharma अथ चेतत्त्वमिमं धर्म्यं संग्रामं न करिष्यसि | तत: स्वधर्मं कीर्तिं च हित्वा पापमवाप्स्यसि || 3.33|| atha chet tvam imaṁ dharmyaṁ saṅgrāmaṁ na kariṣhyasi tataḥ sva-dharmaṁ kīrtiṁ cha hitvā pāpam avāpsyasi||...

Explanation Lord Krishna explains here that Even if Arjuna doesn’t believe that the eternal essence is imperishable, it’s fine; but if he believes that the eternal essence(soul), which is present in the human body, passes through birth and death with the body, if he understands this even then there...

Explanation The message about immortality is being stressed once again. It is not enough to just communicate faultless information; for that knowledge to be effective, it must penetrate deeply into the student’s heart. As a result, a good teacher will frequently repeat a previous point. In the Bhagavad Gita,...

Explanation Shree Krishna continues to describe the nature of the soul by repeating the concept of reincarnation and comparing it to a common action. We discard worn-out and useless garments in favour of new ones, but we do not transform ourselves in the process. When the soul discards its...

Explanation Shri Krishna is implying that “this,” the eternal essence (soul), does not act and is not affected by any action, in the same way, that electricity does not act. It gives material objects the ability to act without actually doing so. As a result, a sensible person will...

Explanation This shloka emphasizes the timeless and changeless nature of the eternal essence (soul) that we have seen thus far. Any material object, including the human body, undergoes six types of changes: birth, existence, change, growth, decay, and death These are bodily transformations, not self-transformations. The eternal essence is...

Explanation Arjuna was concerned that he would be held responsible for the deaths of his relatives, which he disliked. However, Shri Krishna advised him to use the logic or perspective of the eternal essence in this Shloka. The everlasting essence does not kill, and it does not die as...

Explanation A sensible person, according to the previous scripture, maintains a healthy balance of joy and sadness. This passage states that a balanced person will gradually gain insight and arrive at a point where any object or situation will lose its “real-ness.” Only the eternal essence will remain as...

Explanation Shree Krishna establishes the concept of soul transmigration from one lifetime to the next. He argues that our bodies develop from childhood to youth to maturity to old age in a single lifetime, the body is always changing, the soul passes through numerous bodies in one lifetime. Similarly,...

Explanation Shree Krishna continues by clarifying that the “self” is actually the soul, not the physical body and that it is eternal, just as God is eternal. Verse & What We Can Learn When divine knowledge is transmitted in the Vedic tradition, it normally begins with self-knowledge. In the...