23. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 2 Verses 59-63 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 2 (Verses 59-63) of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The Song of God".

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0:00.0	So, Vasudeva,
0:03.4	Son Deva,
0:04.0	Kamshajanuram Ardanam,
0:09.0	Devaki Paramanandam,
0:13.0	Krishna, Vande, Jagad Guru.
0:25.6	So we are studying the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. Towards the end, the discussion is,
0:31.6	Arjuna has asked a question about the enlightened person.
0:35.6	What is it like to be enlightened? And that's where the discussion is.
0:40.3	One of the reasons why this section is important is that what is discussed here, these are also the practices which we can do and we are supposed to do.
0:53.3	The word enlightened is not used.
0:57.0	The word used is Thittapragya in Sanskrit, which means
1:01.0	stabilized wisdom.
1:03.0	It's a very precise use of the term.
1:05.0	As we study Vedantah, we begin to get it.
1:09.0	We begin to understand what they are saying. It's not very
1:13.1	difficult really. Stay with it for some time you get it. But then the next question comes that
1:17.5	it fluctuates. It seems to come and go. And it doesn't seem to be a, it's difficult to make it
1:26.6	practical in day-to-day life so this these two issues
1:30.7	that it seems to come and go and it's difficult to make it practical in day-to-day
1:34.4	life is an issue so how to stabilize this?
1:50.0	The practices are discussed here.
1:56.0	Now one of the things one has to do is that one has to stay with this teaching.
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