A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuranam ( 04/04/2013. )

========================================================================= Tuesday, 16 May,  2023. 05:30. Discourse 5: Narada Instructs Yudhisthira on Ashrama Dharma -5. ========================================================================= There are also various other ways. This is a transcendental technique of the Aranyaka portion of the Vedas, but we have other devotional paths which can also be called upasana—such as contemplation/meditation on a form of God, or an ishta devata, as it is called, that we think is suitable for us. The ishta devata is a chosen deity. It may be the name that we give to our concept of God as a person pervading the whole world, or as a person seated near us as an image on our altar or a murti in a temple, as the case may be. In the earlier stages, we may require a physical form of the object of our meditation, and that could be a yantra, mantra, murti, image, idol, saligrama, painted picture or whatever it is, for the purpose of concentration. The ...

Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) : A two-day National Seminar at CIF Shodha Sansthan under the Central Sanskrit University concluded on 30th March 2023. The seminar had an extensive discussion on the much-awaited National Education Policy. Sanskrit is the bridge connecting all generations to ancient Bhartiya knowledge and original Indian wisdom. Leveraging the language instils a sense of pride in the youth and connects us to our roots.   The seminar was inaugurated by the noted agriculture scientist Prof Abdul Salam and was attended by several luminaries in academia. Swami Sharadananda Sarasvati delivered the valedictory address and the Seminar was concluded by a vote of thanks by Dr. Rajasekhar Reddy, Director, CIFSS. ======================================================================== Saturday, April 15,  2023. 06:00. Discourse 5: Narada Instructs Yudhisthira on Ashrama Dharma -4. ========================================================================= A tim...

Swami Chinmayananda : We become truly spiritual, not by rotating prayer beads, or reading books, and not by merely singing the glory of the Lord, but by sincerely living in tune with the higher and nobler in ourselves.  ========================================================================= Thursday, March 09,  2023. 06:00. Discourse 5: Narada Instructs Yudhisthira on Ashrama Dharma -3. ========================================================================= It is immaterial whether we marry or not. It depends upon the need that is felt inside. Even in the Himalayas we may feel that we are a Grihastha because of the pressure that we feel inside. The external things, appurtenances, husband, wife, etc., are only symbols of forms of an inner connotation, a need that is felt inside us. What binds us or liberates us is the need that is felt inside. We are the makers of our destiny; we create our bondage, and we are also responsible for our freedom. No external aid can help us in...

================================================================= Wednesday, January 25,  2023. 06:00. Discourse 5: Narada Instructs Yudhisthira on Ashrama Dharma -2. ================================================================= We feel a  great joy when we pour ourselves externally in love for power, in love for money, in love for enjoyments of various kinds, not knowing that this is not real pleasure because when the tension that is created in us—when the quantum of energy already existing in us—wells up like an elephant's energy, it does not know what to do. Either it will go vertically or it will go horizontally. Like a river in flood, it can move in any direction. It is necessary that we should prepare a program of our life by which our energy quantum rises vertically, and does not move horizontally. Otherwise, it will be like a dissipated river flooding everywhere and destroying villages and persons. The vertical ascent of energy is the art of the Brahmacharya system...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Friday, December 02, 2022. 06:00. Discourse 5: Narada Instructs Yudhisthira on Ashrama Dharma -1. ========================================================================= The Sixth and Seventh Skandhas of the Srimad Bhagavata are devoted entirely to the great battle that was waged between Indra and Vritra, and in this context we also have the story of Chitraketu. It is in the Seventh Skandha that we have a more detailed analysis of Ashrama dharma, which Narada recounts to Yudhishthira in the context of his question concerning the birth of Prahlada, ending with Narasimha avatara due the activities of Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu, two children born to Kashyapa and Diti under queer circumstances. Narada's instruction to Yudhishthira is especially on the dharmas to be followed in the Ashrama system of life. From the birth of a child ...

======================================================================== ========================================================================= Friday, October 21, 2022. 10:00. Chapter-4: The Stories of Siva and Sati, and of Rishabhadeva and Bharata-6. ======================================================================== He did not utter one word, and allowed them to drag him to the temple. They anointed him with chandanam—sandalwood paste—and garlanded him, and he still did not utter one word. Then the priest took the sword to behead him. Immediately, thunder struck. A bursting noise arose from the murti of Kali that they were worshipping, and a fierce-looking Devi rushed forward, grabbed the priest's sword, and cut him down, and smashed everything. All the dacoits ran helter-skelter. Even all this noise did not disturb Jada Bharata's peace. He kept quiet. Let Kali come, let dacoits come, let anything happen, he did not mind anything. People ran away from that place, and...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Sunday, September 25, 2022. 07:00. Chapter-4: The Stories of Siva and Sati, and of Rishabhadeva and Bharata-5. ========================================================================= Yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram, taṁ tam evaiti kaunteya sadā tadbhāvabhāvitaḥ (B.G. 8.6):  Whatever thought one remembers or entertains in the mind at the time of passing, that is the state you will attain in the next birth, says the Bhagavadgita. The body is a concentrated form of the mind itself. It is a condensation of thought. The mind manufactures this body for the purpose of the fulfilment of its desires. The body is necessary for the mind in order that it may contact physical objects through the sense organs. Otherwise, the mind by itself cannot contact physicality. So, as if its only duty is to come in contact with pleasurab...