13th November 2016
Geeta discussion class ,Richmond
VA. U.S.A .
Thank you for giving me opportunity to share my views on these shlokas. i.e. shloks no 7-8-9-.of ch 10th
This ch. is named ,"Vibhuti yoga",but it has strings with earlier chs. also . In ch. 7, Krishna describes His power &importance. He tells Arjuna by describing the creation of universe. He says that He is everywhere . All happenings are His wishes .
After 9th ch. , now He could have noticed that Arjuna has started absorbing and understanding the teachings; Krishna is ready to give Arjuna, the knowledge of Vibhuti qualities.Vibhuti means:- person having power with perfect self .The word perfect ,we have seen described in ch. 9 and how one can become perfect by having SPECULATIVE KNOWLEDGE . "kRISHNA is called BHAGWAN. Why? Parashar muni describes this way . Krishna has all 6 opulences;i.e. full strength, full fame , full wealth,here we have not to take it as material wealth, , we have to take wide and broad meaning of wealth;.knowledge ,beauty ,and renunciation So He is Supreme Personality or Bhagwan .
Uptill now Krishna said,He IS the creator of each and everything, Even BRAHMA is creation of Krishna, who is known as HIRNYAGARBH . And Brahma menifested maharshis, sanak ,aadi . So Brahma is Pitamaha and he was created by Krishna so , Krishna is PRA-PITAMAHA .
Coming to these three shlokas, Krishna says that, the highest spiritual perfection is The knowledge about Me . i.e. Supreme personality. !And unless one is not firmly convinced of manifold manifestations,and My Being, convinced about My yoga power;one cannot engage oneself in Devotional Services.One who knows Me as Vibhuti-Perfect self- and My yoga power i.e. creator of whole universe. ;realises THE INFINITE .
In 8th shloka he says;HE IS THE SOURCE of all spiritual and material world .It is said in UPNISHAD;- Narayanad brahma jayate, Nrayand prajapati prajayte, means , brahma.who is called prajapti creates praja, , Nrayand Indro jayte, Nrayanad Ashtvasvo, Elevan rudrau, twelve Adityas.All are created by Nrayana . They are expansion of Krishna . This comes in the 1st line of the 8th shloka ,"ahm, sarvsya ..... By knowing perfectly this ,one becomes devotional person from heart and worships ME .
In 9th shloka,He describes about pure devotee. who is pure devotee? One who knows about Krishna's Vibhuti and Yoga power;then surrenders to Him is pure devotee .The group of such devotees get satisfection in conversing about Krishna. They exchange knowledge and enlighten each other. just as we do here. They feel blessed. In immature stage they enjoy by devotional services;but once they fully become dedicated in services; become matured with understanding about LORD;they are situated in love of GOD. They feel happy . Last time we were asking what is happiness . I think THIS IS the ETERNAL HAPPINESS.Material happiness comes and goes; but this stays in heart for ever which leads towards uplifting the soul .
Later on in comimg shlokas, He says who are constantly devoted to serve ME ;I give knoledge to them to come near Me., I enlighten them how to come near Me.
So in these shloksa we can understand the supreme Lord . His power and come to know that He is pra-pitamaha of all beings.
As I know , all religions,in their religious books say same thing that ;there IS Almighty who controls the whole universe. All creatures are creation of Almighty. Almighty lives in all creatures;so everybody should love each other .Even wild animals are not fighting unneccessary . only if any danger is there for their lives or their cub's live they become agressive .Otherwise they live natural living by nature's rule "jivo jivsya jeevanm."They hunt to servive.Sometimes they take care of other animals also . Only the human beings, knowing fully that they are doing wrong,still they do wrong; fight for country, borders, religion, to show power or just to scare others.
Then comimg to Geeta Q. comes; why this battle? Why Krishna encourages Arjuna ? Because , the other party had done injustice. But before this Krishna DID try to solve the problem by negosiation with Kaurvas in Hastinapur;which failed.So we can not say Krishna encourages Arjuna. H e simply tells him to do karma. His moto is ;-- "Do the imposed or given karm with full faith in ME ,with full devotion and dedication, without any attechment or affections; without any expectations. Come ,surrender yourself to Me and I will take care of you "
This is THE GEETA .
Thank you .
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ATTECHMENT TO PRESENTATION OF 7-8-9 SHLOKAS ON 13TH NOV. 2016
In my presentation I had reffered about 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras and 12 Adityas.I came to know their names,so I am sharing it ;thinking, somebody may be interested in it .
8 (eight) Vasus---1-Dhar ,2-Dhruv,3-Som ,4-Aha, 5-Anil,6-AAnal ,7-Pratyush,8-Prabhaash
11 (eleven) Rudras ---1-Rudra,2-Hara,3-Bahuroop,
12 (tewlve)AAdityas---1-Dhaataa,
There are 2 (two) Kumaaras,named -Ashwini and Kumaar
Total 33 (thirty three )It is said that Hindus have 33 koti devi-devtas. Koti is a word from sanskrit language .It has two meanings .One koti means crore,and second koti means type.Here the Hindu philosophy has taken the meaning types and not crore. So HINDUS HAVE 33 TYPES of DEVI -DEVTAAS .AS GIVEN ABOVE .
In addition to this I have got the under written informations ,which I would like to share .
Three (3) RUNA --1-Dev runa ,2-Pitru runa, 3-Rushi runa
Four (4)Yugas--1-Sat yuga,2- Tretaa yuga ,3- Dwaper yuga ,4- Kali yuga
Four (4) Dhaam --1-Dwarika dham ,2-Badrinaath dham ,3- Jagnnath puri dham ,4- Rameshwar dham
Four (4) peetha--1-Shaaradaa peeth,2-Jyotish peeth (known as Joshi math near Badrinaath )3- Govardhan peeth (known as Jagnnath )4- Shrugeri peeth .
Four (4)Vedas -1- Rugved 2- Atharv ved ,3- Yajurved ,4- Saam ved
Four (4)Aashramaas 1-Brahm charya ,2- Gruhashtha ,3- Vaanprasth 4- Sanyaas
Four (4)Antah karan -1-Man,2- Buddhi ,3- Chitt ,4- Ahankaar
Five (5) Gavyas-1- Cow milk ,2- cow ghee ,3- Dahi made from cow milk 4- Go mutra ,5- Gobar .
Five (5) Dev 1-GaNESH ,2- vISHNU ,3- Shiv ,4- Devi ,5- Surya .
Five (5) Ttva-1-pruthvi ,2- Jal ,3- Agni ,4- Vaayu ,5- Aakaash
Six(6) Darshan -1-Vaisheshik ,2- Nyaay ,3- Saankhy ,4-Yuog ,5- Purv mimaansaa ,6- Dakshin mimaansaa .
Seven (7) Rushi--1- Vishwa mitra ,2- Jamadgni-3-Bhardwaj ,4- Gautam ,5- Atri ,6- Vashishtha ,7- Kashyap
Seven (7) puri .-1- Ayodhya puri ,2- Mathuraa puri ,3- Maayaa puri ( Haridwar) 4-Kaashi ,5- Kaanchi (shiv kanchi -vishnu kanchi )6- Avantika 7- Dwarika puri .
Eight (8)Yogas 1- Yam ,2- Niyam ,3- Aaasana ,4- Prayanaaayam ,5- Prtyahaar ,6- Dhaaranaa ,7-Dhyaan 8- Samaadhi
Eight (8) Lakshmi -1-Aaagdh ,2-Vidyaa ,3- Saubhagya,4- Amrut ,5- Kaam 6- Satya ,7- Bhog ,8- Yog lakshmi .
Nine (9) Durgaa .-1- Shail putri ,2- Brahm chaarini ,3- Chandra ghanta ,4- Kushmaanda ,5-Skand maata 6- Kaatyaayni ,7- Kaal raatri ,8- Maha gauri ,9- Siddhi daatri
Ten (10) Deeshaa ,1- Purv,2- Pashchim ,3- Uttar ,4- Dakshin ,5- Ishaan ,6- Nairuty,7- Vaavyvya ,8- Agni 9- AAkaash ,10- Paataal.
Ten (10) Avtaar ,1- Mtsya ,2- Kashyap ,3- Vraah ,4- Narsinha ,5- Vaaman ,6- Parshuraam ,7 -Shri Raam ,8- Shri Krushn , 9- Buddha ,10- coming,- Klki .
Twelve (12) months ,as Vikram year . 1- Kartik, 2- margshirsh (magshar)3- Posh ,4- Maha ,5- Falgun ,6 Chaitra 7- Vaishaakh ,8- Jyeshth,9- Aashaadh 10 Shraavan ,11- Bhardpad 9( bhadarvo ) 12- Ashiwin (aaso )
Twelve (12) Raashi ,1- Mesh ,2- Vrushabh ,3- Mithun ,4- Kark ,5- Sinha ,6- Kanya ,7- Tula ,8- Vruschik ,9- Dhanu ,10-Makar ,11- Kumbh ,12- Meen
Twelve (12) Jyotirlingas ,1- Somnaath ,2- MAllikarjun,3- Mahakaal ,4- Om kaareshwar ,5- Baijnaath ,6-Rameshwarm ,7-Vishwanaath,8- Trayambkeshwar ,9-Kedaar naath 10 -Drushneshwar ,11- Bhimaashankar ,12- Naageshwar .
Fifteen (15),-1Padvo ,bij ,trij , choth , panchami, shashti , saptam ,ashtami, navmi , dasam ,ekaadashi , dwaadashi ,teras, chaudas, poonam --these are shukla paksh . Again fro m 1 to 14 the same name but in KRUSHNA paksh , and the fiftinth day is called Amavaasya.
Eighteen (18) Smuritees. 1- Manu, 2-p vishnu ,3- Atri ,4- Haarit ,5 Yaagn valkya ,6- Ushanaa ,7 Angeera , 8-Yam ,9- Aapstamb ,10- Sarvta ,11- Kaatyaayan ,12- Brahaspati ,13- Parashar , 14- Saankhya ,15- Likhit ,16- Daksh , 17- Shata taap 18- Vasishth.
Geeta was told on Ekaadashi of Margshirsh in shukla paksh. It was sunday and at the same time Sanjay and Dhrutraashtra had also heard it ,as sanjay was narating the view of battle field . It is said that Geeta was told in 45 mits. but for me it is un beieveble 'coz 700 shlokas can not be spoken in that time . Anyways. GEETA IS COUNTED AS UPNOSHAD and called GEETOPANISHAD.
This I have received and I do not know the authenticity but I put it in this as one record. At least our future generation can know something about our religion , or can do research on this . Astu
