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    Krishna advises Arjuna on his duty as a warrior and explains key spiritual concepts. Arjuna is confused about fighting his relatives but Krishna says he should act with detachment from the fruits of action and focus on his duty. The document discusses the eternal nature of the soul and how material attachment leads to rebirth. It promotes performing one's duties for Krishna through bhakti yoga as the easiest path to self-realization and liberation from material existence in this age.

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    Bhagavad-Gita

    As It Is
    Chapter 2 - Contents Of The Gita Summarized
    Krishna's revelation to
    Arjuna

    What is true compassion?


    ● Madhusudana, the killer of
    demon Madhu speaks
    ● Krishna calls his arguments low
    class and petty
    ● Based on body consciousness
    ● Compassion should be for the
    drowning man, not his dress
    Arjuna's confusion

    ❖ How can we kill our superiors?


    ❖ Better to live by begging
    ❖ Defeat even in Victory
    ❖ A prosperous kingdom here or in
    life in heavenly planets cannot
    satisfy him
    ❖ Arjuna confused about his duty
    Right action to remove confusion

    ● Arjuna's surrender to Krishna as


    Guru.
    ● Smiling Krishna becomes grave
    in His new role.
    ● Calls him a fool for lamenting.
    ● Though his words were true
    according to dharma and Raja
    neeti.
    ● Need Spiritual solutions to
    material problems.
    Knowledge to free us from misery

    All of us are individual souls eternally-


    BG 1.12
    Impersonalism defeated
    Death is merely a change of dress
    That keeps happening even in life- BG
    2.13
    Happiness and distress like summer and
    winter seasons – BG 2.14
    Steadiness in both leads to liberation or
    at least to higher material life
    Who am I? /what are
    my real self/soul's
    qualities?
    Body is temporary, soul is permanent
    Soul pervades the whole body as
    consciousness
    Material body sure to come to an end
    The soul neither kills nor is killed
    No birth and death for soul - BG 20
    Change of old bodies give rise to new
    ones- BG 22
    No sinful reactions- No sin for performing Dharma

    Judge hanging a Criminal Doctor performing surgery


    None of his weapons of sword, fire, water or
    wind can destroy the soul.
    Soul is invisible, inconceivable and
    immutable- beyond the senses.
    The next body determined by your actions
    now.
    Arjuna advised to fight for his elevation, not
    degradation.
    No cause of lamentation any way

    • Even if you think the soul


    lives and dies for ever like
    Buddhists and atheists.
    • Birth and death
    inevitable.
    • Body is unmanifest,
    manifest and again
    unmanifest.
    • Should perform duty and
    not lament.
    How to understand
    the Soul? ❖ Soul is amazing for all– how both
    in great and tiny bodies.
    ❖ Austerity, not sense gratification,
    required to understand.
    ❖ Self understanding through right
    knowledge.
    ❖ Bhagavad gita gives knowledge
    of soul, Supersoul and their
    relationship.
    ❖ Krishna can be accepted only
    after great penance and
    austerities.
    ❖ But through pure devotee’s
    mercy one can understand easily.
    ❖ Then life is successful.
    Different ways to
    understand the soul
    • Jnana yoga - Controlling
    the senses with
    detachment.
    • Karma Yoga - Doing your
    duty selflessly
    •Ashtanga Yoga
    •Bhakti Yoga - Easy
    process for this age
    Duty from a materialist’s perspective

    • Kshatriya’s duty is to fight


    • Fighting for dharma leads to
    heavenly planets
    • Non –performance of duty leads
    to sins
    • Will lose your reputation as a
    great fighter
    • Dishonour, worse than death for
    the respectable
    • Kingdom or heavenly planets
    both good for enjoyment
    • Duty for a cause 
    • Tolerating summer and winter
    seasons
    • Leads one to self realization and
    eternal life
    • Or atleast  to higher material life
    Duty as a karma
    Yogi
    • Even a little advancement can
    protect you from degradation-BG
    2.40
    • Should be resolute in purpose-BG
    2.41
    • Not knowing the purpose of the
    Vedas, materialists want only sense
    gratification in this life and the next
    • Karma Yoga or Buddhi Yoga
    satisfies the real purpose of the
    Vedas
    • Can fulfil all purposes of the Vedas
    Consciousness of a
    Karma Yogi
    • Action with self knowledge
    • Right to perform action
    • Not attached to results(given
    by Krishna)
    • Does not think himself the doer
    • Not be attached to laziness- BG
    2.47
    • Equanimity in results to work is
    Yoga
    Results of Karma
    Yoga • Frees one from all material
    reactions
    • Escape all suffering
    • Easily achieve liberation as
    compared to a jnani
    • Paves the way to understand God
    and surrender to Him
    • Indifference to all Vedic rituals for
    fruitive results
    • Divine consciousness
    Symptoms of one in
    divine consciousness
    • Has overcome his mind which
    gives rise to varieties of
    material enjoyment
    • Free from excessive
    attachment, fear and anger
    • Unaffected by good and evil he
    may obtain
    • Not praising nor despising it
    • Fixed in knowledge
    Symptoms of one in
    divine consciousness • Uses only when required- like a
    tortoise
    • Fixed in higher consciousness
    due to higher taste
    • Senses are very strong- can carry
    away even a man of
    discrimination
    • In relationship with Krishna, easy
    to control senses
    • Difficult in the path of jnana – of
    renunciation of work
    How does one fall into Material consciousness?

    • Contemplating on sense gratification


    • Develops attachment
    • Attachment turns to lust
    • Unfulfilled lust leads to anger
    • Anger causes delusion
    • Leads to bewilderment of memory of self
    • Intelligence is lost
    • Falls down to Maya- BG 2.62-63
    How to overcome Maya?

    • Regulative principles of
    freedom
    • Prevents the boat being
    swept away by the wind of
    our senses
    • Give Satisfaction in Krishna
    Consciousness
    • Can get transcendental and
    steady intelligence
    • Leads to peace and happiness
    • The attached materialst and the
    detached spiritualist are like Night
    and day
    • The mind of the devotee is like
    ocean- not disturbed by rivers of
    material desires
    • Free from false ego and
    possessiveness
    • Internally renounced and peaceful
    -even though active
    • At the time of death can enter the
    kingdom of God
    •Two birds on a tree- Soul and
    Super Soul in the heart
    •Heart as the seat of all energy
    and life
    •Turning to the Super soul for
    end to suffering
    ❖Easy process for this age to realize
    your self
    ❖Bad effects of not doing one's
    duty 
    ❖Infamy and degradation
    ❖Distress due to criticism
    Easy practise of the
    principles of Bhagavad
    gita in this age
    •Appearance of Krishna as Lord
    Chaitanya
    •His mood and mercy
    •Chanting of the HARE Krishna
    Maha Mantra
    •Read the Bhagavad gita and
    Srimad Bhagavatam
    • Develop great wisdom effortlessly
    Verse
    Hari Bol.

    An ISKCON Koramangala Presentation


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