Summary of Bhagavad Gita

[viji_53 0]

1.Wise men do not sorrow over the dead or living.

2.Soul is eternal.

3.The un real has no existence and the real never ceases to exist.

4.The soul neither kills nor get killed.

5.Death is certain for the born and rebirth is inevitable for the dead.

6.Do your duty with out attachment.

7.The mind which is free from passion,fear and anger is called stable mind.

8.The mind that neither rejoices nor recoils when it meets good or evil is stable.

9.He who has given up all desires,attachment,egoism and thirst for enjoyment attains peace.

10.GOD takes birth from age to age to protect virtuous and to punish the evil doers.

11.He who acts, offering all actions to GOD and shaking off attachment,remains untouched by sin ,like lotus leaf by water.

12.The omnipresent GOD does not receive the virtue or sin of anyone.

13.Everything happens for the best.

14.He who sees GOD present in all beings,never loses HIS sight.He also never loses HIS sight of him.

15.Mind is restless,but can be controlled through meditation.

16.GOD is the supreme goal,supporter,lord,witness,abode,refuge,wellwisher seeking no return,origin,and end,resting place,store house and imperishable seed.

17.GOD brings full security and personal attention to those who constantly think of HIM in a disinterested spirit.

18.GOD delightfully accepts even water when offered with love.

19Know it for certain that HIS devotees never fall.

20.WHo takes refuge in HIM attains the supreme goal.

21.Those who fix their mind on HIM,be devoted to HIM,worship HIM,linking themselves with HIM and depending on HIM,go to Him.

22.HIS devotees ever remain contented and take delight in HIM.

23.He is the universal self seated in the hearts of all beings;so He alone is the beginning,middle and also the end of all beings.

24.Those who fix their mind on HIm will easily cross the ocean of birth and death.

25.If you can not steadily fix your mind on GOD,then seek to attain HIM through yoga of reapeted practice.

26.Get rid off I and Mine to attain HIM.

27.Realizastion of GOD is the true knowledge.

28.Satva drives one to joy;Rajas to action;while Tamas,clouding wisdom,incites one to error as well as sleep and sloth.

29.Wisdom follows from Satva,greed from Rajas,obstinate error, stupor and also ignorance follow from Tamas.

30.We have come to this world with empty hand and we have to go back with empty hand.

31.Surrender to the LORD is the best means of attaining SALVATION.

32.Take refuge in HIM alone,by HIS mere grace you will attain supreme peace and eternal state.

33.Where ever there is BHAGAVAN KRISHNA ,there is Arjuna;Where ever there is BHAGAVATGEETA,glory ,victory,and unfailing righteousness are there.

34.He who hears the Holy Gita with reverence is liberated from sin.

 

 

[shvu 1]

 

That is a good summary.

 

13.Everything happens for the best.

Can you let me know which verse says this ?

 

Thank you

 

 

 

 

[shvu 1]

Yes tintin,

 

But there is no way of communication without words. So there has to be this compromise. However once this compromise is done, one can see that they have given a very excellent and inspiring description.

[tintin 0]

The summary is magnificient. But what a pity that the ultimate truth which is silence has to be wrapped in some many words but yet it is nowhere near to its description.

 

 

[viji_53 0]

The mind that neither rejoices nor recoils when it meets good or evil is stable.

conveys Everything happens for the best.

[melvin 1]

 

Vedic Mantra of Purification

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om apavitrah pavitro va

sarvavastham gato pi va

yah smaret pudarikaksam

sa bahyabhyantavah sucih

sri vishnu sri vishnu sri

vishnu

 

" Unpurified or purified, or

even having passed through all

situations, one who remembers

the lotus eye of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead is cleansed

within and without. "

 

nama om visnu padaya krishna

prestahya bhu-tale srimate

bhaktivedanta-svam iti namine

 

" I offer my respectful obeisances

unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhakti-

vedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is

very dear to Lord Krishna, having

taken shelter unto His lotus feet."

 

The summum bonnum of Bhagavad-gita

is to surrender unto Krishna`s lotus

feet and become His pure-devotee.

One should therefore follow the foot-

steps of a pure devotee like Bhakti-

vedanta Swami Prabhupada and his

associates and chant the Hare Krishna

maha-mantra, "... there`s no other

way... no other way... in this age of

Kali-yuga, " says Lord Chaitanya Ma-

haprabhu.

 

Jesus Christ said to his disciples,

" I`m the Way, the Truth, and Life."

Krishna consciousness therefore is

the only Path, the Absolute Truth,

and the very Life of a pure-devotee

who is cent-percent so much in love

with God.

 

That is our conclusion: ON NAMO BHA-

GAVATE VASUDEVAYA.

 

[viji_53 0]

Hi! Shvu,

Gita says the person with stable mind attains God. The stable mind can be attained when you take pleasure & pain in the same way. To get that feeling you take what ever happens, happens for the best. Just to convey that meaning I repeated the meaning of unattachment in another form ,ie.what ever happens , happens for the best. Actually we do not have any verse in Gita mentioning it.

Thanks.

viji_53

[viji_53 0]

Hi! Melvin

I fully agree with you. Surrendering to the Lord is the best means to attain God. Especially in this age of Kali yuga repeating the names of the lord Hari is easy and every body can do it. God is beyond caste, creed, colour and religion. Each individual is eligible to attain Him. Youger days are more conducive to attain Him. We should try to attain Him when our eyes are sharp, mind is stable, when the body is healthy & when words flow with out falter.May the Lord Hari help us with His blessings to fix our mind on Him.

Thanks.

viji_53