This is the 4th discourse delivered by Poojya Swamiji during the 2024 Guru Poornima Retreat. Discussing Karma Yoga of Bhagavad Gita, Swamiji emphasizes that activity is a demand and persuasion of nature. The three Gunas of nature propel the human to be active.
Competence is for Karma Nishta
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Three ways to Realize the Self
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Different paths lead to same goal
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Objective Actions call for Right Understanding, Not Detachment
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Have Refuge in Guru or God
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
The Three Kinds of Yoga - Jnana, Karma, Bhakti
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Take away from your mind, O Arjuna, all sense of difference about the spiritual pursuit. It is the mind and intelligence that work in both cases. In Jñāna-niṣṭhā, they become very specific and exclusive. And in Karma-niṣṭhā, their application is broad, including all activities of worldly life. So, remove even the least sense of difference between the two niṣṭhās. For, they have the same emphasis as well as goal. Each will take the seeker to the same spiritual goal of inner fullness, abundance and ecstasy.
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Read MoreGita does not deal with the objective results of actions at all, where the rules and laws of the objective world prevail. Krishna, as well as Vedanta, speaks only about spirituality, the science of inner mind, intelligence and Self. Possession, dispossession, delusion, clarity, enlightenment, etc. are concepts that relate to the inner personality of the human.
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