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🗓️ 22 December 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ome, Vasudeva, suttam, Devam, Kamsachanuram Ardanam, |
0:10.0 | Devaki, Paramanandam, Krishna, Vande, Jagad Gurum. |
0:27.1 | We are studying the Bhagavad Gita, and we are in the second chapter. |
0:31.7 | Of the 18 chapters, the second chapter is the most important. |
0:35.2 | It basically contains the essence of the teaching. |
0:40.3 | And in the second chapter, the teaching about the Atman, ourself, who we really are, |
0:42.3 | that is the central teaching. |
0:44.3 | So that's what Sri Krishna has been telling Arjuna till now. |
0:48.3 | We have covered that part. |
0:50.3 | We have studied about that. |
0:51.3 | While wrapping up that teaching, the doctrine of the Atman, |
0:56.7 | Sri Krishna mentions two important concepts in Indian thought. |
1:06.5 | Not just Vedanta or Hindu thought, but also Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, the Indian, an important |
1:15.8 | concept of the Indic worldview. What are these two concepts? The first one is given in |
1:23.1 | verse 27 and the second one in 28. We have done up to 27 last time. |
1:29.5 | In 27, Sri Krishna said, |
1:33.4 | for those who die, for those who are born, |
1:36.5 | death is certain. |
1:40.1 | Death is certain for those who are born. |
1:42.8 | This is common sense. |
1:43.8 | We all know this. This is common sense. We all know this. |
1:44.5 | This is one truth that we all know without any kind of religion, whether you are theist, atheists, |
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