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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 67 - 68 - The Power of the Senses and an Integrated Mind and Intellect Mar 21, 2024

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Without steadiness in knowledge, the weakness of just one sense organ can cause one’s downfall. Despite hearing the Geeta, we often are unsteady in the conviction of Krishna’s words and allow the mind to get carried away by sense objects, disobeying the intellect’s guidance! Swamiji beautifully illustrates this through the significance of the Satyanarayana Katha.

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 66 - 67 - What’s Wrong with Liking My Stuff?! Jul 16, 2023

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Without clear understanding that all that we seek outside is not going to bring us the peace we seek, the mind will always be restless. Swamiji delves deep into our mind’s flawed logic and tendency to dwell on the objects we desire. He also clearly illustrates the journey from agitation to quietness in the mind that we repeatedly go on when pursuing our desires.

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 64 - 65 - Going Beyond Likes and Dislikes Jun 29, 2023

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It is not that every object attracts us, but depending on our likes and dislikes that the mind develops a desire for certain objects. Taking our mind through the shopping malls of the world around us, Swamiji clearly illustrates how in the peaceful mind of one who has given up strong likes and dislikes, the seeds of their vasanas get completely roasted!

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 63 - The Ladder of Fall (2) Jun 17, 2023

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Obsessive desire for anything constitutes lust. Lust when obstructed leads to anger, and this anger deludes us, causing us to lose our ability to discriminate between what is real and unreal. Swamiji illustrates this through an anecdote in the Ramayana, driving home the clear ways in which our desire for the world outside carries us swiftly down the ladder of fall!

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 61-63 - The Ladder of Fall (1) Jun 01, 2023

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The mind is easily coloured by sense pleasures and the intellect often justifies indulgence, but Krishna explains how an intellect dedicated to a higher goal can lovingly inspire the mind to master, and not just suppress, the senses. Swamiji also introduces Krishna’s famous ‘ladder of fall’ to help us understand how the uncontrolled mind leads us further away from our ultimate goal!

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 59-60 - The Strength of the Senses! May 21, 2023

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How much can one abstain from all the temptations of the world?

When we stay away from the temptations, they eventually turn away from us too. However, Krishna reminds us that the memory of the pleasures continues to tempt even the most intelligent of us! Having withdrawn the senses, the mind must be alert, vigilant and directed into deeper contemplation of the Truth.

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 57- 58 - The Person of Perfection (4) May 10, 2023

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Krishna paints this delicate word-picture of a person of perfection on the canvas of Arjuna’s mind. He even anticipates Arjuna’s queries and begins to eliminate them! How can one so easily withdraw from the world? In today’s episode, Swamiji eloquently explains Krishna’s beautiful metaphor comparing the tortoise and the sthitaprajna!

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 56-57 - The Person of Perfection (3) May 02, 2023

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Swamiji clearly points out how our raga (attachment), leads to bhaya (fear) and krodha (anger), and the stithaprajna is free from them. Their mind is not dependent on any outer object, hence the level of detachment which they operate from.

The person of perfection also sees beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’, neither complains nor praises, and is ever fixed in knowledge of Brahman in all as all.

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 56 - The Person of Perfection (2) Apr 16, 2023

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With a variety of tales, Swamiji explains the self-satisfied nature of one who is equanimous.

We hear of the sthithaprajna’s unshakeable mental attitude towards joys and sorrows, who accepts all that falls in their lap as the Lord’s grace, and has no fear, attachment or anger towards the world and people around them.

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Geeta Chapter 2 Verse 54-55 - The Person of Perfection (1) Mar 30, 2023

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Having heard of this state of ease, Arjuna is curious to understand such a person of perfection. To the untrained ear, his questions may seem childish, but Krishna understands these prattling questions from His student and begins by speaking of the knowledge the sthitaprajna is rooted in.

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