The Bhagavad Gita and Swami Vivekananda
The Bhagavad Gita and Swami Vivekananda
The Bhagavad Gita and Swami Vivekananda
A discourse
This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly.. Live in the midst of the battle of lifeIf you have found the centre, you cannot be moved.
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Karma yoga
Right action Duty without desire
the action one has done cannot be destroyed until it has borne its fruit; no power in nature can stop it from yielding its results
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Gnana yoga - Realisation of the Ultimate truth Individual consciousness- Universal consciousness- Ultimate Reality
Action ---- Knowledge --- Wisdom one idea that I see clear as daylight is that misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else
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Aatma samyama yoga Body and the Universe All pervading oneness
Be good, do good
The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart
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Akshara Parabrahma yoga Passion, one idea, longing, end of life, fulfilment,bliss
Man is an infinite circle You have to grow from inside out.None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
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Rajavidya- Raja guhya yoga Confidential knowledge of the ultimate truth Belief Whatever you do, devote your whole mind, heart, and soul to it
11. Viswaroopa darsana yoga Vision of the Universal Form Opulence and splendour Divine grace
12. Bhakti yoga the path of devotion Total surrender Total immersion Oblivion and Ecstasy
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The world is not a childs play- and great men are those who build highways for others with their hearts blood. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed
14. Guna triya vibhava yoga Three qualities 1 material nature 2 ignorance 3 passion Goodness The self-seeking man who is looking after his personal comforts and leading a lazy life- there is no room for him even in hell.
15 Purushotama prapti yoga Realisation of the ultimate truth Action and reaction
Where is fate, and who is fate? We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The world can be good and pure, only if our lives are good and pure.
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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.
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Shradhatraiya vibhaga yoga The three divisions of material existence Goodness Passionate nescience The three Ds Man is made up of three qualities-brutal, human and godly. That which tends to increase the divinity in you is virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice. You must kill the brutal nature and become human you must transcend that too and become pure bliss, Sachidananda, fire without burning---
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Complete renunciation No desires, no wants Absence of all emotions good or bad Sacrifice, charity and austerity The watchword of all well-being,of all moral good is not I, but Thou