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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

25. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 2 Verses 67-69 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8681 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 2 (Verses 67-69) 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

In the Vesudeva,

0:04.0

Vandhya,

0:06.0

Kamsachanuram Ardana

0:09.0

Devaki Paramanandam

0:14.0

Krishna

0:15.0

Vande Jagad Gurum

0:18.0

In the Bhagavad Gita, we are studying the second chapter almost towards the end.

0:27.6

Arjuna had asked a question about the enlightened person.

0:33.6

The term used there is the one of stabilized wisdom. And we who have been associated, we have been studying Vedanta for some time,

0:42.3

we know the importance of that term because ultimately the question comes down to it

0:47.3

is this, that I begin to get what Vedantah philosophy is teaching me,

0:53.3

but how can I make it steady and how can I

0:59.2

implement it in my life? How can I live it? So that stabilized wisdom is a particularly very

1:06.8

well-chosen phrase. Arjun asks that questions, Thita Pragya. And in that discussion, we came across a term last time

1:14.6

Prasada.

1:16.6

Prasada not in the term of the offered food, which is so beloved to devotees.

1:20.6

Food is offered to the deity and then we take it.

1:23.6

But Prasada here means pure mind.

1:26.6

And a pure mind is usually associated with gladness, with happiness, with joyfulness.

1:33.3

So, Prasanna, there is a word prasanna in Sanskrit and in most Indian languages.

1:41.3

It generally means a wholesome gladness. That's a good way of putting it.

1:46.6

If you look into your own, those who have Indian languages, if you notice how Prasanna is used,

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