72. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 6 Verse 1 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Chapter 6 (Verse 1) 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,
0:02.5	Suttam-Devam, Kamshachanuram Dhanuram,
0:07.2	Devaki, Paramanandandam, Krishna, Vandeh Jagadkurum.
0:13.0	Okay.
0:31.6	We were on the sixth chapter.
0:33.6	We're about to start chapter six of the Bhagavad Gita.
0:40.3	I have a little personal fondness for this chapter because when I became a monk, this was the first chapter I was asked to memorize.
0:50.3	It depends on the Swami under whom you start your training first.
0:56.0	So the Swami under whom I joined the order, he would ask us to memorize a verse of the Gita every day, each of the novices.
1:06.0	But we would be given different chapters.
1:10.0	I don't know why he selected the way he did, but for me he
1:13.5	selected the sixth chapter and I started with this. And the first verse I memorized after joining
1:19.7	the order was the first one we're going to do today. So I have this little. And the funny thing
1:26.7	was there was another novice who had a hot temper.
1:30.3	So he was asked to memorize one verse and one verse only.
1:36.3	I think from that verse, Yasmann no dojate lok or lokan no dojate chayah.
1:42.3	I think from the 12th chapter.
1:46.2	One who is not disturbed by the world and one who does not disturb the world.
1:50.3	That's the meaning of the verse.
1:51.9	Such a one is dear to the Lord.
1:53.6	And he had to recite that every night.
1:56.9	He was given one verse to do.
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