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Session 2 of 5-Day Bhagavad Gita Retreat, held during the USA Jnana Yajna 2024.
Location: Fairfield Inn & Suites Marriott Tustin Orange County, 15011 Newport Ave, Tustin, CA 92780
Date: 21 June 2024

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In this Satsang, Swamiji speaks about the Sadhana that Bhagavad Gita prescribes for a seeker. Swamiji emphasizes that every seeker must remind himself that he has a body, but he is not the body; he is different from the body. He is the inner presence which is ever-present, eternal.

Attitude to Sukha or Duhkha—In life, we are always interacting with persons, places, or events. In the mind level, all interactions produce only two results—sukha or duhkha. Bhagavad Gita gives a formula to deal with them. Knowing that Sukha and duhkha are transitory and illusory, one must remain equipoised and remain afloat over them.

Bhagavad Gita formula for life-- A seeker must receive all interactional impacts without getting affected, just like the ocean receives all rivers flowing into it. Interactions are in the mind, and the impacts are in the mind. So, in all interactions, there is nothing other than the mind. In the deep mind ocean, there may be some disturbing or agitating thoughts on the surface. They should not affect us.

Karma Yoga: One must perform all activities as a Yajna, an offering to the Supreme. The attitude must be to do all work excellently well, being free of delusional clinging.

Our inner personality: Our senses are superior to the world objects; mind is superior to the senses; intelligence is superior to the mind. But the soul (I) is still superior. Comprehending the ‘I’, which is superior to the intelligence, one must win over greed, desires etc.

Knowledge austerity: There is nothing more purifying than knowledge; the wisdom pursuit purifies and fulfils a human. Overcoming desires, fear and hatred, one who relies on the Lord, contemplates on the Lord, he attains the state of Krishna, being purified by knowledge austerity.

Renunciation: Real renunciation is the sublimation of hatred and desires. One who is equipoised when faced with all dvandvas (dualities), is free from all bondage.

Real mastery, real happiness—The entire creation is won over by one whose mind is equipoised. One who is able to sublimate the urges of passion and hatred, he is an integrated and a happy human being.

Shlokas chanted and Time stamps:
6:44 - न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न…Bhagavad Gita 2.12
23:26 – आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं.. Bhagavad Gita 2.70
35:07 - ज्यायसी चेत्कर्मणस्ते…Bhagavad Gita 3.1
35:33 - व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन..Bhagavad Gita 3.2
37:31 - न हि कश्चित्क्षणमपि..Bhagavad Gita 3.5
43:14 - यज्ञार्थात्कर्मणोऽन्यत्र लोकोऽयं..Bhagavad Gita 3.9
49:32 - इन्द्रियाणि पराण्याहुरिन्द्रियेभ्य..Bhagavad Gita 3.42
1:00:49 - एवं बुद्धे: परं बुद्ध्वा...Bhagavad Gita 3.43
1:03:37 - यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य....Bhagavad Gita 4.7
1:03:47 - परित्राणाय साधूनां...Bhagavad Gita 4.8
1:08:56 - वीतरागभयक्रोधा मन्मया...Bhagavad Gita 4.10
1:12:39 - न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं....Bhagavad Gita 4.38
1:15:08 - ज्ञेय: स नित्यसंन्यासी..Bhagavad Gita 5.3
1:18:08 - इहैव तैर्जित: सर्गो येषां..Bhagavad Gita 5.19
1:19:53 - शक्नोतीहैव य: सोढुं..Bhagavad Gita 5.23
1:21:14 - कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां... Bhagavad Gita 5.26

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