Text XVII English Wording: vavacchariradisu mayayatmadhi – stavadvidheyo vidhivadakarmanam netiti vakyairakhilam nisidhya ta – jjnatva paratmanamatha tyajetkriyah. As long as one... Read more
Nobody can give up work totally. Work is the signature of life in the individual. But the Gita explains that when we work “without anxiety for enjoying the result of work” (that is, without... Read more
Text XIV kecidvadantiti vitarkavadina stadapyasaddrstavirodhakaranat dehabhimanadabhivardhate kriya vidya gatahankrtitah prasidhyati. So argue some men of erroneous logic; but that, indeed,... Read more
However great and holy the work be, it cannot produce the Reality ever present in every one of us. Selfless work undertaken with love and devotion to the Lord and to our fellow man can indee... Read more
Text VIII kriya sarirodbhavaheturadrta priyapriyau tau bhavatah suraginah dharmetarau tatra punah sarirakam punah kriya cakravadiryate bhavah. Action is considered to be the cause for the ma... Read more
Text V aham prapanno’smi padambujam prabho bhavapavargam tava yogibhavitam yathanjasajnanamaparavaridhim sukham tarisyami tathanusadhi mam O Lord ! I am surrendering at Your lotus feet, upon... Read more
Continuing, Lord Mahadeva, as though seeing in his mental vision the scene in the palace, describes how Rama told his beloved brother many ancient stories, emphasizing the right values of li... Read more
This is complete collection of sixty-two verses spoken by Lord Rama to his devoted brother Lakshman are found in Veda Vyasa’s Adhyatma Ramayana, in the Uttarakanda as its fifth chapter... Read more
3. Dost thou desire to know all by thy own experience – that this is knowledge, and that is worth knowing, etc., – then thou shalt fail to know the end of the Sastras even if thine age be ov... Read more
34. The Yogins who contemplate me with one mind as “I am he” are saved from the sins collected during a hundred millions of Kalpas. 35. As the Akasa of the pot is absorbed in the Mahakasa wh... Read more
