Gita For Daily Living

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses  36, 37, 38 & 39 Lecture discusses three types of Sukha - Happiness.  Satvika – Sukha feels like poison in the beginning but in the end it feels like nectar.  Rajasika – Sukha feels like nectar in the beginning but in the end it feels like poison Tamasika – Sukha  feels like poison in the beginning and in the end also it feels like poison. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses  33, 34,& 35 Lecture discusses three types of Dhruti - Fortitude.  Satvika – Dhruti will make the mind focus, optimize the physiological functions in my body and will give capacity to overcome obstacles.  Rajasika – Dhruti may give me success in life but not happiness & Tamasika – Dhrutii will not let me get out of fear, depression and arrogance. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses  29, 30,31 & 32 Lecture discusses three types of intellect.  Satvika – Buddhi will let me see things as they are and will guide me to right things.  Rajasika – Buddhi will make me do things that will cause more sorrows and unhappiness and Tamasika – Buddhi will make me do things which are completely inappropriate. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses  26, 27 & 28 Lecture discusses three types of doers.  Satvika – doers act without getting affected by success or failure, Rajasika – doers act because of desire to enjoy fruits of actions and Tamasika – doers act without any firm commitment or purity of purpose. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses  22, 23, 24 & 25 Lecture discusses three types of actions.  Satvika – actions create bliss and harmony, Rajasika – actions create agitations and Tamasika – actions create destruction and pain. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Episode 340: Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses 19, 20, & 21 Lecture discusses two of the three types of knowledge.  Satvika – Pure knowledge leads to the understanding of unity, and Rajasika – Passionate knowledge creates duality. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses 16, 17 & 18 Lecture discusses three propellers of actions - Knowledge, the object to be known and the knower and three enablers of actions i.e. the instrument, the action and the doer.  Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses 13, 14 & 15 Lecture discusses five constituent causes required for any action. Understanding them can give us the path to liberate ourselves from the bondage of our actions. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses 10, 11& 12 Lecture discusses how a Satvika Tyagi by giving up anxiety for the fruits of actions become a sanyasi and liberates himself from the bondage of actions. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses 7, 8 & 9  Lecture discusses three types of “Tyaga” i.e. Tamsika out of delusion, Rajsika out of fear  and Sattvika with right under understanding.   Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses 4, 5 & 6 Lecture discusses Krishna’s Doctrine of “Karmaphal Tyaga” as the path to achieve supreme bliss. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 18 “Yoga of Liberation through Renunciation” Verses 1, 2 & 3 Lecture discusses difference between Tyaga – giving up and Sanyasa - renunciation. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 26, 27 & 28 Lecture discusses the conclusion of threefold faiths with a caution that any sacrifice, austerity or charity done without faith becomes worthless action and does not yield intended result here or hereafter. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 23, 24 & 25 Lecture discusses the great “niredsha vakya” – indicative statement “Om Tat Sat” OM is the ultimate truth.   Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 20, 21 & 22 Lecture discusses three types of charities people make and who benefits from those charities and how. Not all charities are desirable some are out rightly forbidden. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 17,18 & 19 Lecture discusses everlasting benefits of austerities performed without any expectation for particular result which will lead to ever lasting peace whereas the austerities performed to achieve material gains and powers can lead to pain and agitation. Moksharthi - Please visit YouTube for Bhajans by Neil Bhatt - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8jOW56VdfinQGoaP3cRFi-lSBfxjflJE

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 14,15 & 16 Lecture discusses types of Tapas - disciplines we should practice at Physical, Mental and Speech level to achieve purity of mind which is a prerequisite in all spiritual practices.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 11,12 & 13 Lecture discusses the influence of one’s faith on the actions he performs, sacrifices he makes and how that affects his chances of achieving the ever lasting peace.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 5, & 6 Lecture discusses three types of faith in accordance with the predominance of Satva, Rajas or Tamas in a person’s mental makeup.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 1,2,3 & 4 Lecture discusses the nature of faith in a person who does not depend on the traditional books of wisdom to determine what to do and what not to do.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses  23, & 24 Lecture discusses Lord Krishna’s advice to follow the scriptures to decide what to do and what not to do in life here and now to achieve happiness and the supreme goal of liberation from limitations.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses  20, 21 & 22 Lecture discusses three negative tendencies – lust, anger and greed which make people go through hellish experiences in life and therefore in order to achieve happiness one must avoid them.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 17,18, & 19 Lecture discusses how our egos boosted by the negative tendencies make us believe that our identification with our accomplishments and achievements will make us happy but in fact we end up in immeasurable worries.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 14, 15, & 16 Lecture discusses how negative tendencies make us believe that we are in control of our lives and our actions are helping us achieving security but in fact these tendencies are binding us to more unhappiness and insecurities.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 11,  12, & 13 Lecture discusses how negative – Asuric tendencies make people behave in a manner that binds them to immeasurable worries till their deaths and destructions.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 8,9,& 10 Lecture discusses how to detect negative – Asuric tendencies in our personality which cause sorrows and unhappiness.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses  5, 6, & 7 Lecture discusses five negative tendencies born out of ignorance in human personality which bind them to the limited ego and cause sorrows and unhappiness.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 1, 2, 3, & 4 Lecture discusses twenty-six qualities one can cultivate to live a divine life to liberate oneself from the bondage of the ego and egocentric desires.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 15 “Purusottama Yoga - Yoga of the  Supreme Self” Verses  19,& 20 Lecture discusses the nature of Purushottama – the Supreme Consciousness which transcends both the perishable Prakriti – manifest matter and the imperishable but conditioned consciousness.

Episode 314: Bhagavad Gita Ch. 15 “Purusottama Yoga - Yoga of the  Supreme Self” Verses 10,11,& 12 Lecture discusses the omnipresence of the supreme being in all aspects of our life and how the supreme being supports all our activities and perceptions.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 15 “Purusottama Yoga - Yoga of the  Supreme Self” Verses 7, 8,& 9 Lecture discusses How an eternal portion of the Supreme Self becomes a limited Jiva, an individual ego to experience the objects in the prakriti by borrowing the necessary equipment from the prakriti.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 15 “Purusottama Yoga - Yoga of the  Supreme Self” Verses 4,5,& 6 Lecture discusses the state of awareness which does not require any outside knowledge or light to know itself.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 15 “Purusottama Yoga - Yoga of the  Supreme Self” Verses 1, 2 & 3 Lecture discusses the tree of samsara – our world and its source as explained in Upanishad and in this chapter  using the allegory of an upside down tree which has branches below in this world and roots up above I the supreme self..

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 24, 25, 26 & 27 Lecture discusses how a person who transcends the three Gunas of the Prakriti becomes one with the Supreme all-pervading perfect self.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 22, 23, & 24 Lecture discusses the characteristics and behavior of a person who has transcended the three Gunas as recommended by Lord Krishna to all the seekers of liberation.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 18,19,& 20 Lecture discusses how the predominance of Stava, Rajas or Tamas in my mind result either in progress or regress in our spiritual evolution and how we can go beyond the effects of the Gunas.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 15,16,& 17 Lecture discusses how we can use the understandings of the “Three Gunas” to cleanse our Antahkarana the internal instrument - the mind and intellect for our spiritual evolution.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 13, & 14 Lecture discusses Expressions of Satva, Rajas and Tamas in our mind and how the mood of our mind at the time of death determines our next birth.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 10, 11 & 12 Lecture discusses How Satva, Rajas and Tamas bind the pure consciousness with the Prakriti and create identification with the limited self.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 7,8 & 9 Lecture discusses the Qualities of Satva, Rajas and Tamas, and how they bind the infinite self to the limited body, mind and intellect as an individual self.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 4,5 & 6 Lecture discusses three Gunas of Prakriti as the ropes binding the infinite self to the limitations of Body, Mind and Intellect.  Even Satva in spite of having purity and brightness binds the individual to the happiness and knowledge.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 14 “Yoga of the Three Modes of Material Nature” Verses 1,2 &3 Lecture discusses the concept of Purusha as the Universal Father and Prakriti as the Universal Mother.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 29, 30 & 31 Lecture discusses the relationship of the Supreme Self with the lower conditioned self in all things and beings and how understanding of it can liberate oneself from all limitations.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 13 “The Field and the Knower of the Field” Verses 25, 26, 27 & 28 Lecture discusses the unity in the diversity of this world of plurality. The PARMESHVAR – the great Lord is present in all things and beings as the eternal self of all things and beings.