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I'm graduating in three days from divinity school. There's so much to do between now and then, and I'm so mired in seemingly pointless details, that I have to wonder what on earth the divine has to do with any of this. I'm lost.
It's so easy to stray from the path of right relationship when I'm busy. I become forgetful, lost.
YOU ARE LOOKING AT PILLARS CARVED A THOUSAND YEARS AGO AND HOW---!?
--HOW-- so many bodies' ended up inside a temple? Carved to perfection, in activities and beyond? Sex to Super Consciousness? Well, the answer perhaps lies here: Bagavad Gita: Chapter 13.1
Being there. Thank you for your kind visit and have a good time!
The ocean is greater than all the rivers;
It has no limits,
And its water cannot be measured.
The Bagavad Gita
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
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"words are the least effective purveyors of Truth"- paraphrased from Conversations with God
words can only point towards the truth.. they cannot hold the complete truth because--they cannot hold the same meaning to everyone..they can be interpreted differently..and they can hold different meanings at different times through out history
the words can seem all shiney & real.. but they are merely part of the illusion.. the form. they can only point at the Divine. In order to know the Divine experientually.. one must let go of the form.
nibble on these wise words... and then let them go!
"Tao is beyond all words..it can only be apprehended in silence"
-Chuang Tzu
"That which you see is that which I revealed to you; but that is which I Am, I alone know, and no one else. Allow me, then, this mystery which is my own, and that which is yours, behold it through Me. See me in truth that I Am- not what I said to you, but what you are able to know, for you are My family"
-The Acts of John
" The visible universe comes forth from Me who am invisible Being. All beings have their rest in Me, but I rest not in them. I am the source of all beings. I support hem all, yet I do not rest in them. In the end of the night of time, all things return to Me. And with the dawn, I bring them into the light"
- The Bagavad Gita
French version of Bagavad Gita.....
La Bhagavad-gita est formée d'un dialogue entre Sri Krsna, Dieu, la Personne Suprême, et Arjuna, Son dévot, ami intime et disciple. Arjuna interroge Krsna, qui lui répond en exposant la science de la réalisation spirituelle.
La Bhagavad-gita fait partie du Mahabharata, que compila Srila Vyasadeva, l'avatara-Ecrivain, paru sur Terre il y a 5 000 ans, comme Sri Krsna, pour faire le bien des générations à venir en mettant par écrit la sagesse védique.
Universellement reconnue comme le joyau de le sagesse spirituelle l'Inde.
just reading a good book and reflecting on the different tradition's takes on achieving soul realization..so different and seemingly contradictory..only if you don't recognize the different angles on the one truth..
(sorry to get so deep) but i find it fascinating.. just a few tid bits i really enjoyed--
"The man of the Tao remains unknown. In perfect virtue, he produces nothing. ' No Self' is 'true Self' And the greatest man is Nobody"
~Chuang Tzu
" When one sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, he hates no one."
~ Isha Upanishads
" Strive to know yourSelves. Become aware that you are children of the living Father; and you will know that you are living in the City of God, and you are that City.
~Oxyrhnchus fragment (Gnostic Christianity)
"Seeing the Lord equally, everywhere, one does not injure the Self by the self, and so goes to his reward."
~ The Bagavad Gita
" He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."
~ The Buddha
Hiroshima, 08:16:00 am, August 6, 1945. Directly above the red pin was the hypocenter of the atomic explosion, 600 meters in the air. The pin marks the spot where Shima Hospital had stood moments before. Notice the condition of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall -- henceforth known as the A-bomb Dome, or in Japanese, Gembaku Domu. This is the 08:16 a.m. view...click here for the 08:15 a.m. view.
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One. I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds". -- The Bagavad Gita, chapter 11. These lines flashed through the mind of J. Robert Oppenheimer as he stood in the control room at the Trinity test, the explosion of the first atomic bomb in history, at Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. (Current Biography Yearbook, 1964, p. 331)
The Bhagavad Gita', meaning the Song of the Lord, is in the form of a poetic dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna. It is part of the great Indian epic 'The Mahabharata', and is one of the major religious documents of the world. It reveals how human beings accumulate 'Karma' as a result of their actions in innumerable incarnations, and how to achieve liberation through devotion and knowledge.
The dialogue, which takes place on the eve of an historic battle, probes the nature of God and what man should do to reach him. As 'The Bhagavad Gita' unfolds, this majestic poem provides a fascinating synopsis of the religious thought and experience of India through the ages. This book offers the classic English verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904), long admired for its evocation of the true feeling of the original poetry.
About the Author
Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904), was an English author. After serving as principal of the government college in Pune, India, he joined (1861) the staff of the 'London Daily Telegraph'. He won fame for his blank-verse epic 'The Light of Asia' (1879), dealing with the life of Buddha. The poem was attacked for its alleged distortion of Buddhist doctrine and for its tolerant attitude toward a non-Christian religion. Besides other volumes of poetry, he wrote a number of picturesque travel books and translated Asian literature, including 'The Bhagavad Gita'.
The title is a famous quote from Bagvadgita which means -
"Your right is only to work, and never to its fruits.
Don't be motivated by the fruits of work. Nor should you be attached to inaction"
Shot this during BPW's photowalk to malleswaram. This is SOOC. I had to use Adobe to reduce the image size.
Vedic Cosmos, a spiritual initiative from the house of Nightingale, created history by publishing an opulent edition of the Bhagavad Gita. Refer: nightingaleshop.com/
Bhagavad Gita Ch 08 poster is prepared by ISKCON desire tree for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada and the Devotees.
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For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.
Qualitatively, the small atomic fragmental part of the Supreme Spirit is one with the Supreme. He undergoes no changes like the body. Sometimes the soul is called the steady, or kūṭa-stha. The body is subject to six kinds of transformations. It takes its birth from the womb of the mother's body, remains for some time, grows, produces some effects, gradually dwindles, and at last vanishes into oblivion. The soul, however, does not go through such changes. The soul is not born, but, because he takes on a material body, the body takes its birth. The soul does not take birth there, and the soul does not die. Anything which has birth also has death. And because the soul has no birth, he therefore has no past, present or future. He is eternal, ever-existing, and primeval — that is, there is no trace in history of his coming into being. Under the impression of the body, we seek the history of birth, etc., of the soul. The soul does not at any time become old, as the body does. The so-called old man, therefore, feels himself to be in the same spirit as in his childhood or youth. The changes of the body do not affect the soul. The soul does not deteriorate like a tree, nor anything material. The soul has no by-product either. The by-products of the body, namely children, are also different individual souls; and, owing to the body, they appear as children of a particular man. The body develops because of the soul's presence, but the soul has neither offshoots nor change. Therefore, the soul is free from the six changes of the body.
In the Kaṭha Upaniṣad (1.2.18) we also find a similar passage, which reads:
na jāyate mriyate vā vipaścin
nāyaḿ kutaścin na babhūva kaścit
ajo nityaḥ śāśvato 'yaḿ purāṇo
na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre
The meaning and purport of this verse is the same as in the Bhagavad-gītā, but here in this verse there is one special word, vipaścit, which means learned or with knowledge.
The soul is full of knowledge, or full always with consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is the symptom of the soul. Even if one does not find the soul within the heart, where he is situated, one can still understand the presence of the soul simply by the presence of consciousness. Sometimes we do not find the sun in the sky owing to clouds, or for some other reason, but the light of the sun is always there, and we are convinced that it is therefore daytime. As soon as there is a little light in the sky early in the morning, we can understand that the sun is in the sky. Similarly, since there is some consciousness in all bodies — whether man or animal — we can understand the presence of the soul. This consciousness of the soul is, however, different from the consciousness of the Supreme because the supreme consciousness is all-knowledge — past, present and future. The consciousness of the individual soul is prone to be forgetful. When he is forgetful of his real nature, he obtains education and enlightenment from the superior lessons of Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa is not like the forgetful soul. If so, Kṛṣṇa's teachings of Bhagavad-gītā would be useless.
There are two kinds of souls — namely the minute particle soul (aṇu-ātmā) and the Supersoul (vibhu-ātmā). This is also confirmed in the Kaṭha Upaniṣad (1.2.20) in this way:
aṇor aṇīyān mahato mahīyān
ātmāsya jantor nihito guhāyām
tam akratuḥ paśyati vīta-śoko
dhātuḥ prasādān mahimānam ātmanaḥ
"Both the Supersoul [Paramātmā] and the atomic soul [jīvātmā] are situated on the same tree of the body within the same heart of the living being, and only one who has become free from all material desires as well as lamentations can, by the grace of the Supreme, understand the glories of the soul." Kṛṣṇa is the fountainhead of the Supersoul also, as it will be disclosed in the following chapters, and Arjuna is the atomic soul, forgetful of his real nature; therefore he requires to be enlightened by Kṛṣṇa, or by His bona fide representative (the spiritual master).
Scan # 5 - Krishna reveals his full form......as God to Arjuna. This is an artistic interpretation of a direct quote from the Bhagavad Gita .