[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]There is a regular discourse on “Srimad Bhagavad Gita” including Guided Meditation or Gita Chanting as scheduled, by Rev. Swami Shantatmanandaji Maharaj on Sundays in the mission premises. This is the audio recordings for the same and subsequent addition of lectures will be done after the classes.
All are welcome to join the same.
About Bhagavad Gita:
Sri Ramakrishna:
“What is the significance of the Gita? It is what you find by repeating the word ten times. It is then reversed into ‘tagi’, which means a person who has renounced everything for God. And the lesson of the Gita is: ‘O man, renounce everything and seek God alone.’ Whether a man is a monk or a householder, he has to shake off all attachment from his mind……..Sri Ramakrishna (The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)
Swami Vivekananda:
“Nature will have her way. What can suppression do?” (Gita, III. 33.) That is a terrible [statement] in the Gita. It seems it may be a vain struggle after all. You may have a hundred thousand [urges competing] at the same time. You may repress [them], but the moment the spring rebounds, the whole thing is there again.
[But there is hope]. If you are powerful enough, you can divide your consciousness into twenty parts all at the same time. I am changing my psychology. Mind grows. That is what the Yogis say. There is one passion and it rouses another, and the first one dies. If you are angry and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger, you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child’s dream. The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured. We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were….Swami Vivekananda (Delivered in San Francisco, on May 26, 1900, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol.1)
Guided Meditation:
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Audio Recoding of the class lecture:
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(01), (02), (03), (04), (05), (06), (07), (08), (09), (10), (11), (12),
(13), (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23)….[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text].[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]A few photos from the mission’s premises: