Everyday Geeta

April 22, 2013 Many of you have seen individual posts of my series "www.vishwarūpa.infinite - Divine Vision At Our Finger Tips". I liked developing the topic over seven posts. It was also a moment of joy when it got published as a consolidated article in the Gītā Vāņī 2013, the annual publication of the Singapore Gītā Jayanti committee. I am happy to present a consolidate set of links so that you can easily click through read the entire set at one setting. Introduction Accessing the Cosmic Vision Cosmic Form - Moving and UnMoving India's Glorious Deepavali Night Vision The Hubble Reveals the Glorious Heavens Monster Galaxy through the eyes of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Ferocious Teeth! The Lord's Pleasing, Familiar Form! PS: The picture above is titled "Dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra" sourced from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art hosted on Flickr. It shows Hari Om and Namaskaar until the next post

August 10, 2012 This year, the Lord's maya is so great that we have three options for celebrating Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭami. Some celebrated it yesterday, others such as Chinmaya Mission, Singapore and at the Shrinathji mandir are celebrating it today, whereas in Gurvayur and Udipi they will celebrate on September 8th. Given that the Supreme Brahman manifested as the baby Kṛṣṇa in a jail to redeem the subjects of Kamsa, I think it is a nice time to return to the topic of change. In one of Swamini Vimalananda's talks, she made it very clear that "changing परिस्थिति (paristhiti), the external situation, never accomplishes much, only changing मनस्थिति (manasthiti), one's mental situation achieves anything. When Arjuna collapsed at the end of Chapter 1, Śrī Kṛṣṇa was very careful not to use his powers to change the world to make it easy for Arjuna. Starting at verse 2-2, Śrī Kṛṣṇa never lifted a finger to change the external situation. His focus all the way to end of chapte...

June 24, 2012 Following on the series on Indian names in the Geeta, we can now look at 'Paartha' (पार्थ - pārtha), a name which occurs 41 times in the Bhagavad Geeta. This has become popular name for babies nowadays as against the name Paarthasaarathi (पार्थसारथी), which was more prevalent when I was young. Literally, the name refers to the son of Pritha, another name of Kunti, the mother of the Pāṇdavās in the Mahābhārata. Therefore, the term could refer to all three of Kunti's sons, Yudhishthira, Bhīma or Arjuna. Thanks to the Bhagavad Geeta, most associate the name Pārtha with Arjuna. The word Partha in Samskritam also means Prince (in this online dictionary ) or king according to the Apte Dictionary site . Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayanandaji has a very interesting explanation. The first letter प (pa) stands for Parameshwara or the Lord. The word अर्थ (artha) means wealth. So, Pārtha refers to the person for whom the Lord, Parameshwara is the only wealth. With this cont...

April 20, 2012 A  previous post highlighting a beautiful Krishna Arjuna chariot image  has proven to be quite popular.    Here's a beautiful one we saw just recently over one of the gates at the Srirangam Ranganathar koil. You can even spot Hanumanji on the dhwaja flying above the chariot. The photograph was taken by Arundhati.  Of course, one wishes that the geniuses we know exist in India, would figure out a way to place the wires and bulbs more aesthetically. Hari Om and Namaskaar until the next post

January 6th, 2011 I like to look for interesting images that depict the Gita on the web. Here is a beautiful one by Philippe Raffard that I found. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FeteVarkala.jpg