106. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 9 Verse 3 - 4 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 9 (Verses 3 - 4) of the Bhagavad Gita. In this series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of the Bhagavad Gita (The Song of God).

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0:00.0	Ome, Basudeva, Suttam, Devam, Kamsachanuram Ardanam, Devaki, Paramanandandam, Krishna,
0:13.0	Vande, Jagad Guru.
0:18.0	So, in this class we are studying the Bhagavad Gita.
0:23.6	We are on the ninth chapter.
0:26.6	And we have just started the ninth chapter.
0:30.6	The nine chapter is called the Royal Secret and the Royal Knowledge.
0:35.6	Raja Vidya Raja Gwija, the Yoga of the Royal Knowledge and the royal knowledge. Raja Vidya Raja Guilla, the yoga of the royal knowledge and the royal secret.
0:41.7	What is this royal knowledge and royal secret?
0:44.4	It is this.
0:46.5	In the eighth chapter, Krishna talked about God.
0:52.0	What God?
0:53.1	The god of theistic religion, the personal God.
0:56.0	The God who is the creator, preserve, a destroyer of the universe, the God whom we pray to.
1:02.5	So that God. The God whose incarnation Krishna himself is.
1:07.7	Krishna is incarnation, avatar of God. So that God, in technical language, in Vedantah,
1:12.4	this is called Saguna Brahman, God or Brahman with attributes. Now, in the, and what do you do
1:21.6	with that God? You pray to that God. You worship that God. You meditate on that. And at the end of our lives,
1:29.8	if we are truly devout and pious and we want God and nothing but God, then we go on
1:38.1	to live in the presence of God after the death of this body. Basically, to put it very simply,
1:47.5	oversimplifying. If you are devoted, if you are truly believing, faithful, then after death,
1:54.6	you get to go to heaven. So that's the conventional idea of God and religion, which you find in
1:59.4	most, in all theistic religions.
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