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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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Scan # 5 - Krishna reveals his full form......as God to Arjuna. This is an artistic interpretation of a direct quote from the Bhagavad Gita .
We usually consider our eyes as reliable sources of knowledge. In court cases, eyewitness testimonies are deemed strong evidence. Yet valuable as visual perception is, it can be misleading when the action being observed is complex and needs intellectual background to comprehend.
Suppose an eyewitness observed a doctor giving an injection to a patient. If the eyewitness were a child, he or she may see the doctor negatively, as the giver of a painful prick. A more mature observer would see the injection positively, as part of a treatment. But that may not be the case – nowadays with medically assisted suicides on the rise, that injection may well be lethal. Worse still, an unprincipled doctor bribed by greedy relatives might have administered that fatal injection to an unsuspecting patient.
The Bhagavad-gita (15.10) exhorts us to understand the soul not by visual perception alone, but by the integration of visual perception with intellectual education.
Clearly, in complex cases, eyewitness testimony doesn’t tell much. Far more complex than medical matters are spiritual subjects. Naturally therefore the Bhagavad-gita (15.10) exhorts us to understand the soul not by visual perception alone, but by the integration of visual perception with intellectual education. The Gita uses an apt compound word: jnana-chakshushah (eyes of knowledge). When we educate our vision with spiritual knowledge, we see the consciousness that pervades the body as persuasive evidence of a non-material soul. After all, matter that is the building block of the body is unconscious, so it can’t be the source of consciousness.
Gita wisdom offers much more than this inferential comprehension of the soul – it also offers processes for accessing non-material modes of perception. If we follow the process of yoga, especially bhakti-yoga, for activating our latent capacity for spiritual perception, we gain increasing intellectual comprehension and spiritual realization. Being inspired by these insights, we march steadily on the yogic path till we perceive the spiritual realm in its full glory.