Yoga & Vedanta

Knowledge being the means for one to see oneness is glorified by Lord Krsna next. na hi jñānena sadṛśaṃ pavitramiha vidyate | tatsvayaṃ yogasaṃsiddhaḥ kālenā...

yadṛcchālabhasantuṣṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ | samaḥ siddhāvasiddhau ca kṛtvāpi na nibadhyate ||4.22|| The one who is happy with whatever comes by chance, wh...

If a jñānī - wise person seeing himself/herself is the non-doer ātma, will he/she still perform action? yasya sarve samārambhāḥ kāmasaṅkalpavarjitāḥ | jñānāg...

After elaboration of karma-yoga in chapter three, now in chapter four Lord Krsna elaborates on knowledge of ātmā. In chapter two itself ātmā is explained to ...

One is said to be deluded if one thinks he/she is the doer of various actions instead of the body-mind-sense-complex. prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sar...

na hi kaścit kṣaṇamapi jātu tiṣṭhatyakarmakṛt | kāryate hyavaśaḥ karma sarvaḥ prakṛtijairguṇaiḥ ||3.5|| Indeed, no one ever remains for even a second without...

After listening to third verse, one might doubt that there are two independent paths which lead to moksa. To resolve such doubt, Lord Krsna said: na karmaṇām...

"Deciding for good, which is better, tell me the one thing by which I shall gain liberation". If there is choice between two means, it would mean two means a...

After explaining the characteristic of a sthitaprajña, Lord Krsna reminds to be attentive in moksa pursue, because if being not careful, down fall will happe...

Arjuna is specifically asking for the characteristic of sthitaprajña - one who abides in the knowledge of the self to Lord Krsna. Does it mean there is diffe...

yogasthaḥ kuru karmāṇi saṅgaṃ tyaktvā dhanañjaya | siddhyasiddhyoḥ samo bhūtvā samatvaṃ yoga ucyate ||2.48|| Remaining steadfast in yoga, Dhanañjaya (Arjuna)...

“One who endowed with karma-yoga, will get rid of bondage of action." How does action bind? Every action binds a person by giving the result of punya and pāp...

Summary from previous classes: The teaching of Gītā starts from surrender of Arjuna to Lord Krsna, asking the way to remove his sorrow which is unavoidable f...

Ātmā is distinct from anātmā, it doesn't mean ātmā - me is here, but my body is hanging somewhere else. It means ātmā is not limited by anātmā although it ap...

"Panditāh, people who know the knowledge of the self don't grief", implies that self-knowledge is the solution for sorrow which represents samsārah (life of ...

We still at the beginning of exploring how Gītā is said to be the essence of Upanisad which guide our life for a smoother sailing to cross this ocean of sams...

Last week we have talked about four human goals, where the last one moksa - liberation from all the searching of fulfilment, actually is the underlying goal ...

When we try to see our entire life, the whole life is nothing but ongoing pursues. Infinite numbers of goals and also varies from individual to individual an...

jīvo dhīsthacidābhāsaḥ bhavedbhoktā hi karmakṛt । bhogyarūpamidaṃ sarvaṃ jagat syādbhūtabhautikam ॥ 36 ॥ On account of identification of reflected consciousn...

The teaching is completed by showing the problem of life of becoming (samsāra) and it's solution (ātmā-jñāna), in the same time prescribing the means to prep...