71. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 5 Summary | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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🗓️ 25 April 2021

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Chapter 5 summary 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,
0:03.1	Suttam-Devam, Kamsachanurramaddanam,
0:08.0	Devaki, Paramanandam, Krishna, Vande, Jagad Gurum.
0:28.6	So in the Bhagavad Gita, we have come up to the end of the fifth chapter, and we were doing these last few verses.
0:33.6	The fifth chapter brings together some great themes of monastic life, householder life,
0:41.3	Ghyana Yoga, Karma Yoga, and then concludes by introducing the next chapter as it were.
0:48.3	The theme is meditation.
0:51.3	So, we saw the verses 27 and 28 sparshan kittwa bhae bhaehyae bhaean chakshu, Chayvantari, Bhruo, Pranapana, Samu Kritva, Nasa,
1:16.6	Nassabhyanthrya, Mano-Buddi, Muni Mokhhhhra Parayana, Vigyahhraudha,
1:24.6	and, and, Sada mucta yvasa.
1:28.3	So the yogi
1:30.3	So the yogi
1:35.3	meditates.
1:37.3	And you can see in this verse
1:40.3	the elements of the Ashtanga yoga are clearly present,
1:46.5	withdrawing one's senses from the contact with their objects.
1:51.9	That is not looking, not listening or hearing sounds outside
1:56.7	or tasting, touching, smelling.
2:00.7	So then focusing the gaze,
2:05.6	control of the breath with the goal of calming the mind,
2:11.1	controlling the mind,
2:13.0	then control of the senses,
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