Week 23 , Bhagwat Gita Chapter 8(Shlokas 1-14) Chants

Friends , we have covered the chapter 8 first 14 shlokas (Akṣhar Brahma Yog) and here are my three learnings from the shlokas covered today.

Three Critical Learnings

1. The fundamental questions from Arjun on What is Brahman , What is adhyatma , What is Karma, What is adhibhuta, what is adhidaiva and Who is Adhiyajna is answered in the chapter.

2. Actions are thoughts which comes in mind and also the physical action done through various senses. One should constantly PRACTICE to engage the mind in that One Consciousness so when he leave the body he would remember of him alone and attain him

3. One way to Practice to fix mind on the Consciousness is restrain your 9 gates( 2 eyes , 2 ears , 2 nostrils . mouth , Urinary opening and excreta openings) and draw the life breath to head and heart region and concentrate.

And as always please share your views in the comments . Have a happy week ahead.

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Week 14, Chapter 4( Shlokas 15-28) Chants

So friends welcome to week 14, we talk about doing actions with awareness so that we are not touched by fear, anger & cravings. But people gets confused when to act and when not to act. We also learn in these verses how to overcome feverishness. We do actions where we expect results and some where we dont expect any results. Expectations brings feverishness. We should be equipoise in gain and loss. Comparisons always brings jealousy. We learnt that doing all action as Yagya will help and we also learnt about the different types of yagya. Hope you all enjoy my recordings and dont forget to put your feedbacks in comment. See you next week.

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