Sorry for the medical break..

Hari Om!

I am down with viral fever and simply not up to the task of posting the updates, please give me a few days...


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Pujya Guruji on practical application of Gita in daily life

Gurudev's Introduction to the Second Chapter

Hari Om! I am copying excerpts from the Commentary by Gurudev. (It is present in some editions only):

We find in the Gita all the known paths to perfection sketched out in the Vedas namely, jnana, bhakti and karma, by which realisation of the Upanishads is reached when one has fully purified oneself by the pursuit of ritualism, karma-kanda, and has spent a period of time in living the upasana-kanda. People believed that these three are irreconcilable factors, and so many schools rose up and each started quarrelling with all the others. This was the chaotic condition in which Vyasa found Hinduism, during the pauranika age. In the Gita he has tried to find for the Aryan children of the Vedas reconciliation and a synthesis in which all can walk hand in hand.

Many are the modern reviewers of the Gita who fail to realise this idea and claim, as in Gita Rahasya, that "jnana accompanied by bhakti and dominated by karma is the Gita way for Perfection". Others say, "bhakti is the most emphatic creed in the Gita teachings". There are still others who say that jnana alone is the theme and that the Gita is an exclusive textbook for sannyasins. In fact, all these are explained in the Gita and much more- the synthesis of them all, as indicated in the body of Gita- chap. 2

Photos from Sidhbari

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Chinmaya Deenabandhu Krishna today!

Live Chanting from the Gita Marathon Camp- Sidhabari, 2015

Dear all,

Hari Om!

This is Ravi. As desired by many participants for a "chanting-only" audio for their personal use and practise, I today started the task of manually cutting and pasting only the chanting and the repeating portions from the main audio file. I have done verses 1 to 10 of Chapter 1 (pls note verse 8 seems to have been skipped).

Google drive link is:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-D4RPMbawmKQXFYSnpOcTRldUU/

Pls try if it works.

The file is not of professional quality and also, the start and stop points, volumes etc are not consistent, being a live discourse. On the other hand, there is some beauty to hearing exactly what we heard at the camp.

Pls let me have your feedback as to whether you would like to have more verses recorded/shared in this manner. I will proceed or abandon this effort based on your feedback.

Thanks and Hari Om!

Ravi