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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

31. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 3 Verse 16-18 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8681 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 3 (Verse 16-18) 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

Oh,

0:02.0

Vasudeva Sutam Devam

0:05.0

Kamsachanurramarthanam

0:09.0

Devaki Paramanandam

0:14.0

Krishna

0:15.0

Vande Jagad Guru

0:18.0

Good evening everybody. We are resuming our Bhagavad Gita classes temporarily for about a month.

0:31.6

So I'll be here till the end of January. So we'll have our regular classes on Fridays. And we'll take it up where we left it.

0:43.0

We are doing the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, and we had done up to the 16th verse.

0:50.9

Don't feel, I'll give you a little bit of a recap.

0:55.0

I remember this statistics teacher we used to have,

1:00.0

and he would, you know, in statistics, nowadays it's called data science,

1:04.0

but used to have these long derivations.

1:07.0

So this implies, this implies, this implies, this, this implies this,

1:09.0

and the whole blackboard would be full of formulae.

1:12.6

And this gentleman would fill up the blackboard and the end of the session comes summer vacations.

1:20.6

And when he comes back, the first class after the summer vacation, he starts off, it comes straight, picks up a chalk.

1:26.6

This implies, and then he goes, we are totally at sea.

1:31.3

The third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna, is talking about, that yes, ultimately

1:39.7

we have to attain enlightenment, call it God realization or self-realization.

1:45.5

But until that point, what do you do with life?

1:49.1

We are still working, we are still living our life in this world, and how do you live life

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