Special posting on Srimadbhagvad gita- 25

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥४-७॥

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥४-८॥


Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligious--at that time I descend Myself.
In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.4:7



कर्मण्ये वाधिकारस्ते म फलेषु कदाचना
कर्मफलेह्तुर भुरमा ते संगोस्त्वकर्मानी॥ ................च २, ४७


You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.............2:47

These two verses you might be seen lot of places in India  people quoting  misquoting  promoting etc whatever, my sole intention to bring the important verses of srimad bhagvad gita to generate curiosity in their own self and see beyond these two above verses.
Bhagvad gita is very much relevant in modern society in fact whatever be the society till the humans survive it is useful, but it should be read in a way that we can apply the principle in our daily life, not just sake of ritual or dogmas, in fact it is letter to all civilization by lord Krishna to give him answer, and if we don't reply by our actions how can he know what we have done. Gita is certainly much more than about two verses.
The entire Gita is important part of life, it should be read and practiced with proper understanding developed with competent teacher.My little effort is to bring curiosity to every one to read and apply.

special verse:

यं यं वापि स्मरन्भावं त्यजत्यन्ते कलेवरम्। तं तमेवैति कौन्तेय सदा तद्भावभावितः॥८- ६॥

प्राणी जो भी स्मरन करते हुऐ अपनी देह त्यागता है, वह उसी को प्राप्त करता है हे कौन्तेय, सदा उन्हीं भावों में रहने के कारण।..................................8:6


Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail..............................8:6

Kumara Vaisnava Sampradaya: Kesava Kasmiri's Commentary

Not only by thinking of Lord Krishna alone does one attain His eternal nature; but whatever one thinks at the moment of death one becomes without fail. This is being stated with the words (yam yam) meaning whatever. Whatever one is thinking at the last moment of death will transport one to become the very object or conception one contemplated while dying. The reason Lord Krishna also gives with the words sada tad-bhava- bhavitah meaning due to being completely absorbed in such contemplation the powerful prominence of the final thought and image infuses itself upon the consciousness determining their next birth.

Finally , whatever state he is being when he leave this body at point of death that state of mind only he would continue to be in, this verse can be read in other way too what ever state of mind he is composed today is the result of the past life's conclusive state of mind..!!!, so it means that this cycle would repeat again if we are unable to detach yourself from the state of mind at the time of death, which is certain expect the timing. as we don't know the timing is it not that what ever state of mind i have today can be carry forwarded. hence when i discovered this reality, does it not mean that i should possess such a state of mind where i should not be attached to karma yet i do the action part. does it not mean that i should do this all times, morning, day, mid-day evening and night...should i not be aware of the lord all the times...as i dont know when the death will become reality.

When this is so much true than why we set a time for doing puja in the morning or lighting a lamp in the evening , as if its a duty rest of the time we are very much dipped our-self in the world.

So here what i conclude is we must practice aware full living always..all times..that is mindful living. stated by Gautama Buddha. Lord should be all times part of life, not just we go to certain place where we call we are doing prayer or puja/aarti and allow God to sit there and we do our work as our mind says(God cant be just at one place one should follow him omnipresent) .The moment we begin to understand that we are not only the body we are a soul (individual soul or consciousness), we begin to understand the mind and its mechanism, and by the grace of sat guru the individual ego vanishes , and the we meet the ultimate consciousness the lord.

How come we keep our mindset on lord at final stages when we never met him while living? how can we meet him after death when we could never know him while living which is been allotted us to with mechanism to upgrade ourselves and we just wasted it with entertainment?!!! so being in lord is not affair of Thursday or Sunday...its every day every moment..all times..

Until we meet our lord...the conflict continues..we continue to seek new new things, we continue to be unstable and unhappy even after most of our desires (material) been fulfilled in our life. we remain still unhappy. Every one shiould strive to make a better tommorow than today. It would only possible if our Today is better than yestarday, we can wake up with better tommorow ,so its now to wake up and take charge to a turn around cling to make ourselves better. The gist of Gita to my understanding is "nishkam karma" can also be said as Total work without regret.

 I concluded these postings on Srimad Bhagvad gita, the mistakes which  i might have done  while writing or explaining, pardon me for that am still a learner and sailing in the same boat as you are in, while writing this, my intent is to bring curiosity to know the reality of life, and stop ourselves becoming slaves of mob mentality. stop seeing others for progress, see yourself. Life is not a race; its just a correction of our being, which we did in past stored as experiences, which lead to  our perception and finally become our choice.

some well known personalities what they said about  Srimad Bhagvad-gita


Albert Einstein
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

Mahatma Gandhi
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Sri Aurobindo
The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

Carl Jung
The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in his Timaeus in which it states..." behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant." This correlation can be discerned by what Krishna expresses in chapter 15 of  Bhagavad-Gita.

Swami Vivekananda
The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught  by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.


 Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda
The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna. 

Adi Guru Sankaracharya
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-Gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-Gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures. 



Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bhagavad-Gita  is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time  the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute. 



Dr. Albert Schweizer
The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.



Aldous Huxley
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Sri Ramanujacharya
The Bhagavad-Gita  was spoken by Lord Krishna to reveal the science of devotion to God which is the essence of all spiritual knowledge. The Supreme Lord Krishnas primary purpose for descending and incarnating is relieve the world of any demoniac and negative, undesirable influences that are opposed to spiritual developement, yet simultaneously it is His  incomparable intention to be perpetually within reach of all humanity.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
Advise everyone to follow the instructions of  Srimad Bhagavad-Gita as spoken by  Lord Krishna. In this way authorised by Me become a spiritual master and redeem this world.


Prayers..

Sarve’tra sukhinah santu
Sarve santu niramayah
Sarve bhadrani pashyantu
Maa kaschit dukhamapnuyat

May everyone in the world be happy.
May everyone be healthy.
May all experience what is good.
May there be no suffering.



Lokha, Samasta Sukino, Bhavantu ......................(X3)
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti-e

May all beings, in all worlds be blessed with freedom, health and happiness
Om, we invoke the Divine Primordial Source Energy to infuse us with
Peace in all bodies, Peace in all minds, Peace in all souls.

om tat sat