All the activities of Krsna described in Srimad-Bhagavatam, beginning even with the pastimes concerning Putana, are transcendental. Nasta-prayesv abhadresu nityam bhagavata-sevaya ( Bhag. This can be done if we regularly discuss Srimad-Bhagavatam and hear about Krsna’s activities. We should gradually come to the sattva-guna, so that we may avoid the two lower gunas.
So I want that advancement amongst all of my students, so your are responsible that the standard will be maintained. And if the students get knowledge more and more, they will automatically become convinced and very easily perform their duties for tapasya or renunciation of the material bondage, and that will be their successful advancement in Krishna Consciousness. So we have got ample stock for acquiring knowledge. Read one sloka and discuss and then go on to the next sloka on the next day, and so on, and even you discuss one verse each day it will take you 50 years to finish Srimad-Bhagavatam in this way. So you introduce this system in all of the centers in your zone, and you will discover that everyone becomes very much enlivened by these daily classes. And then we discuss the subject matter very minutely and inspect it from all angles of approach and savor the new understandings. We are holding our morning class here in Los Angeles in the temple and I am speaking from 7 to 8 am, and the process is that we are going through some chapters of Srimad-Bhagavatam by taking one sloka each day, and reading the Sanskrit aloud, each word is pronounced by me and repeated by the students and then altogether we chant the sloka several times until we have learned it. The eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita are classified as ‘Yogas’, starting with the ‘yoga’ of Arjuna’s depression and ending with the Yoga of ‘liberation through renunciation’.I am very much stressing at this point that all of my students shall be very much conversant with the philosophy of Krishna Consciousness, and that they should read our books very diligently at least one or two hours daily and try to understand the subject matter from varieties of angles. This dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, is the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna talked to him, helping him to examine his own motives and desires, and showing him ways to rise above the limitations of his own personality to do what was best for himself and good for society. In his confusion, he no longer knew the course of action that he should take, and he turned to Krishna for guidance. At this crucial moment, Arjuna’s attachment to his preceptors and family came to the fore, and doubt entered his mind as to the ‘rightness’ of the battle.
In the enemy ranks, Arjuna saw his cousins, other relatives and his teachers. Just before the fighting commenced, Arjuna asked Krishna to place his chariot between the two armies, so that he could take a good look at his enemy. Krishna agreed to drive Arjuna’s chariot and thus to be with him throughout the battle. Arjuna chose to have Krishna with him, and Duryodhana was delighted to add the vast, skilled army of Krishna to his forces. Krishna said that he would not personally lift weapons and fight in the battle, but the cousins could choose to have him, unarmed, on their side, or to have the use of his large army. Before the battle began, both Duryodhana and Arjuna went to Krishna to seek his aid. After making all possible attempts to peacefully get back their kingdom, or even the right to own a mere five villages in the kingdom, the Pandava brothers decided to fight a war to gain justice.Īrjuna, the third of the five Pandava princes, was perhaps the greatest and most renowned warrior-hero in the Pandava army.
The army mustered by the five Pandava brothers was to fight the battle against the army of the Pandava’s cousin, Duryodhana, who had robbed them (the Pandavas) of their rightful kingdom and further, refused to participate in any plans for a compromise. It is one of the best-known philosophical texts of Hinduism, and is said to contain the essence of Upanishadic thought.The Bhagavad Gita occurs just before the great battle of Mahabharata begins. The Bhagavad Gita is composed of 701 Shlokas (verses) arranged in 18 chapters. This dialogue takes place in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. The Bhagavad Gita, or the Song of the Lord, is a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu, and his friend and disciple, Arjuna.
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