śrī-bhagavān uvāca kutas tvā kaśmalam idaḿ viṣame samupasthitam anārya-juṣṭam asvargyam akīrti-karam arjuna TRANSLATION The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Arjuna, how have these impurities come upon you? They are not at all befitting a man who knows the value of life. They lead not to higher planets but to infamy.
sañjaya uvāca taḿ tathā kṛpayāviṣṭam aśru-pūrṇākulekṣaṇam viṣīdantam idaḿ vākyam uvāca madhusūdanaḥ TRANSLATION Sañjaya said: Seeing Arjuna full of compassion, his mind depressed, his eyes full of tears, Madhusūdana, Kṛṣṇa, spoke the following words.
The Bhagavad-gita (5.22) explains that wise people avoid sense pleasures because such pleasures are the wombs of suffering. The Gita’s use of the graphic analogy of a womb (Sanskrit yoni) is meant to protect us from mistakenly equating invisibility with non-existence. Just as the infant within the womb is not visible in the early stages…
The Bhagavad-gita (18.58) urges us to harmonize our desires with Krishna’s desires and to put aside all other desires, recognizing them to be what they are: the false ego’s allurements. However, when we identify too strongly with our false ego, then we mistake its desires to be our own desires. This misidentification may make casting…
The Bhagavad-gita (16.7-20) describes the mentality of the godless materialists who ruin themselves and those around them by their inordinate infatuation with temporary things. Their tragic life-story can be summarized as cry, vie, lie, die, fie. Cry: Being enslaved by their innumerable and insatiable self-centered desires, they live in a state of perpetual inner dissatisfaction,…
Answer Podcast Download by “right-click and save content” Transcription: Why should we worry about any future life apart from this life, Why can’t we use spiritual guidance to be happy and get respite just in this life ? For your question , it is a sincere and important question. It is natural for us to…
Question from Birendra: Answer Podcast Download by “right-click and save content” Transcription: Why did God created a living being and then another living being to eat the former. for example the God created a dear and then a tiger to eat the dear. Why does He destroy His own creation. ? To simplify things, why…
The Bhagavad-gita (5.29) states that knowing Krishna to be our greatest well wisher is essential for attaining lasting peace. When things go wrong, disrupting our material lives and sometimes even our spiritual lives, a doubt may cross our mind: is Krishna really my well wisher? While dealing with such doubts, careful thought will help us…
Many people romanticize the world, fancying it to be the arena where they will fulfill their fantasies. When the world dashes and smashes their dreams, they sometimes oscillate to the other extreme and demonize the world, picturing it as an intrinsically evil place meant to be shunned at all costs. The Gita advocates a balanced…
Analysis of the evolution of the revelation of the Absolute Truth in the Srimad Bhagavatam To hear, please click here
To hear the answer, please click here Answer Summary: 1. The purpose of Vedic culture was to connect everyone with God. 2. When the Vedic culture was prevalent all over the world, the earlier tradition – the wife getting delivered by serving the husband and the husband alone taking initiation – was conducive for fulfilling…
Answer Podcast Download by “right-click and save content” Transcription: What is the vedic”s perspective on the existence of dinosaurs ? When Shrila Prabhupada was asked this question , he said what is dinosaur tinosore minosore what is the big fuss , we have aghasura. So aghasur, was a huge reptile and that is what the…
Answer Podcast Download by “right-click and save content” Transcription: what is the difference between mind , heart, and soul ? The soul is spiritual and eternal part and parcel of the Lord, the soul is the source of consciousness and life in the body. The mind is the part of the subtle body which is…
To hear the answer, please click here Answer Summary: 1. Consciousness being energy of the soul is spiritual, whereas mind is material, being one of the constituents of the subtle material body. 2. The mind is like the screen of the TV whereas the soul is the person watching the TV and consciousness is like…
The Bhagavad-gita (14.10) indicates how the subtle forces of nature known as the modes exert competing psychological influences on us. Their contrary influences cause our feelings to change rapidly, unpredictably and inexplicably, for example, from introspection (goodness) to agitation (passion) to frustration (ignorance) Some of us may experience this downward spiral when we try to…
Question by Venkatesh P: I was reading 9th canto SB, i came across this verse. “After completing the sacrifice, Lord Rämacandra, whose lotus feet were sometimes pierced by thorns when He lived in Daëòakäraëya, placed those lotus feet in the hearts of those who always think of Him. Then He entered His own abode, the…
This ancient Vedic text gives an accurate map of the planetary orbits known to modern astronomy. By Sadaputa Dasa TODAY WE TAKE for granted that the earth is a sphere, but the early Greeks tended to think it was flat. For example, in the fifth century B.C. the philosopher Thales thought of the earth as…
We wish all our readers a very happy and spiritually enriching New Year. To aid you in your spiritual enrichment, we are starting a new feature in the audio lecture section called the Mahabharata Wisdom Series. This feature will have several talks per wee going over various pastimes from the Mahabharata analyzing them for wisdom…
Question: Why do people who follow a religion often claim that their path is the only way? Answer: Because of immaturity. All of us, at our core, are spiritual beings, children of the one supreme God, and so are members of the same one family. Unfortunately, due to our present materialistic misconceptions, we are unable…
Question: Religion causes wars. Wouldn’t the world be much better off without religion? Answer: Let’s discuss the answer in four points: How many of the wars in recent memory were caused by religion? Religion was not an issue in either of the two world wars, nor in most of the other wars like the Vietnam…
Answer: The short answer is no; humans cause war – and justify that warfare using whatever reasons they can find including religion. Religion, if understood and practiced properly, removes the materialism and selfishness and greed that are generally the actual causes of war. Here’s the long answer Many people feel that the world would be…
Question: When the Bhagavad-gita is revered by millions worldwide, why would anyone mistake it to be an extremist book? Is there anything in the Gita itself that lends itself to an extremist interpretation? Answer: The Bhagavad-gita, far from being an extremist book, is a book of wisdom and a message of love. It reveals divinity’s…
The Bhagavad-gita (18.33-35) describes resolution or determination in the three modes of nature: goodness, passion and ignorance. The modes comprise subtle cosmological forces that exert psychological influences on us, thereby impelling us toward certain kinds of action. When our determination is impelled by the mode of ignorance, the force of destruction dissipates the resolutions even…
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