40. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 3 Verse 38-39 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 3 (Verse 38-39) 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 Vasudeva,
0:02.0	Son Deva,
0:03.0	Kamsachanuram Ardhanoam
0:07.0	Devaki, Paramanandam
0:10.0	Krishna
0:11.0	Vande Jagadkuram.
0:18.0	So we are studying the Bhagavad Gita
0:20.0	and we are on chapter 3 almost towards the end of the third chapter.
0:27.6	Arjuna has asked a question, prompted by what, instigated by what internal force, does a person unwillingly not want to do anything wrong still does what is sinful what is wrong and we keep doing this
0:44.3	So what is it that makes us forces us to do what is wrong? Does it does not allow us to do what we know to be right? We all know what is right and wrong but we cannot
0:54.5	follow it. Why? So this is a very fundamental question in spiritual life.
0:59.1	Atta keener pahya pruqtoyam papan charitipurusha anichan of
1:04.7	Vashneya Balad Iyvan Yjita. We had seen the question last time. So this is really a practical question. Not only does this force,
1:15.6	this power within us, not allow us to do what is right, that we know what is right and what is wrong,
1:23.6	and yet we are unable to follow the path of dharma, right and wrong, moral and immoral.
1:29.2	Why do we keep making these mistakes?
1:32.4	Not only that, spiritual life.
1:35.6	That becomes so difficult.
1:36.8	Why is it so difficult?
1:39.1	The path of Bhakti, we are supposed to love God intensely
1:43.1	without any desire for anything else just
1:46.0	fall in love with God but why is it so difficult why is it so difficult to love God
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