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Day 2 of a 3 day talk series by Poojya Swamiji on Bhagavad Gita, during Malaysia Jnana Yajan 2024

Date: 04 September 2024
Venue: SIRD, Malaysia

In this talk, Swamiji emphasizes that every individual is a part of the family, the society, the country, and the globe. Having this perception, one must have a societal, national, and global dimension. All one’s activities must contribute to the welfare of the society and the world. Not thinking only about the immediate family, one must have a universal dimension.

In the Kurukshetra war, seeing his kith and kin whom he had to fight and kill, Arjuna’s body became enfeebled, his mind began whirling and his intelligence was gripped by doubts and indecision. He felt that the war, which was being fought for gaining the kingdom, was sinful. Arjuna was suffering from a constricted and selfish mindset. He did not have a universal dimension.

After being admonished by Krishna, Arjuna confessed that he was suffering from narrow-mindedness and delusion, that his mind was constricted and the path of dharma was not clear to him. Krishna treated the grief, doubts, delusion, and indecision of Arjuna and instilled universal thinking in him. Making Arjuna introspect over grief, Krishna made him understand that wise people do not grieve over the dead or the living. He spoke about the inner presence, the Self, which is eternal, unchanging, all-pervading.

How to gain a universal vision, outlook? Normally, we mistakenly think that we are the limited body- mind-intelligence personality. When we rectify this wrong notion and understand that the body is limited, but the inner presence (Soul) that animates the body is unlimited, all-pervading, then the mind expands to a universal dimension.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
21:42 - धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे समवेता युयुत्सवः Bhagavad Gita 1.1
27:28 - भीष्मद्रोणप्रमुखत: सर्वेषां च…Bhagavad Gita 1.25
30:04 - कृपया परयाविष्टो विषीदन्निदमब्रवीत् Bhagavad Gita 1.27
30:30 - दृष्ट्वेमं स्वजनं कृष्ण ...Bhagavad Gita 1.28
36:42 - सीदन्ति मम गात्राणि मुखं च परिशुष्यति ...Bhagavad Gita 1.29
36:52 - गाण्डीवं स्रंसते हस्तात्त्वक्चै व परिदह्यते...Bhagavad Gita 1.30
37:19 - निमित्तानि च पश्यामि...Bhagavad Gita 1.31
38:03 - न काङ्क्षे विजयं कृष्ण न ...Bhagavad Gita 1.32
39:03 - एतान्न हन्तुमिच्छामि घ्नतोऽपि ...Bhagavad Gita 1.35
39:29 - यद्यप्येते न पश्यन्ति लोभोपहतचेतस: ...Bhagavad Gita 1.38
39:39 - कथं न ज्ञेयमस्माभि: पापादस्मान्निवर्तितुम् ...Bhagavad Gita 1.39
42:16 - अहो बत महत्पापं कर्तुं ...Bhagavad Gita 1.45
43:12 - यदि मामप्रतीकारमशस्त्रं...Bhagavad Gita 1.46
43:51 - एवमुक्त्वार्जुन: सङ्ख्ये ....Bhagavad Gita 1.47
53:05 - तं तथा कृपयाविष्टम...Bhagavad Gita 2.1
56:49 - कुतस्त्वा कश्मलमिदं...Bhagavad Gita 2.2
58:42 - क्लैब्यं मा स्म गम: ...Bhagavad Gita 2.3
1:05:16 - न हि प्रपश्यामि ममापनुद्याद्....Bhagavad Gita 2.8
1:12:36 - अशोच्यानन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च...Bhagavad Gita 2.11
1:19:03 - न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं...Bhagavad Gita 2.12
1:23:07 - अयमेवाहमित्यस्मिन् संकोचे....Yogavasistha.

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