"Bhagavad-Gita As It Is" by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. COPYRIGHT NOTICE: This is an evaluation copy of the printed version of this book‚ and is NOT FOR RESALE. This evaluation copy is intended for personal non-commercial use only‚ under the "fair use" guidelines established by international copyright laws. You may use this electronic file to evaluate the printed version of this book‚ for your own private use‚ or for short excerpts used in academic works‚ research‚ student
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Social dharma entails our national‚ societal‚ and occupational responsibilities. Personal: Personal dharma is svadharma‚ our own perfect individual pattern in life. Part 2: Arjuna’s Dilemma 1. Read the account of Arjuna’s dilemma in the Bhagavadgita. Write down two quotations from Arjuna’s speech that you think most clearly express his concerns and insights. “Oh Krishn‚ seeing my kinsmen standing with desire to fight‚ my limbs fail and my mouth becomes dry” “I see no use of killing my kinsmen
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and spiritual discipline. Yoga can also be traced back in the Bhagavadgita. In this most popular and sacred book‚ Bhagavadgita‚ Yoga means the synthesis of action‚ devotion and knowledge. The Bhagavadgita defines Yoga as “that state than which there is nothing higher or worth realizing and firmly rooted in which a person is never shaken even by the greatest pain; that state free from all pain and misery is Yoga.” In the Bhagavadgita‚ Yoga is considered as one with Sankhya. On one hand‚ Sankhya means
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principles and values of Christianity. The Roman Catholic Church acknowledges tradition along with Bible as the source for their doctrine. Central to Hinduism are the Smritis‚ or books of revelations‚ which include the Vedas‚ the Agamas and the Bhagavadgita‚ which Hindus revere as God in word form and which are considered to be eternal‚ inviolable and revealed by God for the welfare of the worlds. Tradition‚ law books‚ the epics and the Puranas and the writings of several enlightened scholars‚ philosophers
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• Images of Vishnu‚ Shiva & some other Hindu Gods feature I time in this period. Gupta Literature in India • Kalidas‚ the great Sanskrit dramatist‚ belonged to this period. His books are: Abhigyanashakuntalam the other work being the Bhagavadgita‚ Meghadutam‚ Kumarasambhavam etc. • Apart from Kalidas‚ others were Sudraka (author of Mrichchakatikam)‚ Bharavi ‚ Dandin. To this period belongs 13 plays written by Bhasa. Most famous of these was Charudatta. • Vishnu Sharma wrote Panchtantra
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The Bhagavad Gita is a Hindu sacred text of 7000 verses within the Mahabharata‚ which is commonly acknowledged as Sruti literature and talks about a battle between the two royal families. Basically‚ It endorses the achievement of the divine consciousness of the Supreme Lord and promotes three main yogas‚ which is tremendously important for achieving good and keeping our mind more concerned with mental and spiritual well-being than physical activity. Relevantly‚ the yoga refers to the practice of
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England to become a barrister-at-law. There were several important influences that he encountered here: the Western material style of life‚ which he decided not to follow‚ and in the simple Russian way of living he found: the New Testament‚ and the Bhagavadgita‚ the bible of the Hare Krishna movement. It was here that he developed a sense of the presence of God in his life and the lives of men. Gandhi then returned to India and studied law in Bombay‚ but he quickly denounced it‚ feeling that it was immoral
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Buddhism vs Hinduism Hinduism and Buddhism are the two main religions of Ancient India. Both religions share Common beliefs but also have their differences. Some differences are the deities worshipped‚ the founders of the religions‚ sacred writings observed‚ and meditation practices. Through out this essay we will explore and compare the similarities and the differences in both of these religions. Hinduism Religion In the Hindu religion‚ the founder was not one person alone. It is
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born on 5 September‚ 1888 in Tirutani‚ a well-known religious center in the Madras State. He was the second son of Veera Samayya‚ a tehsildar in a zamindari. It was a middle-class‚ respectable Hindu Brahmin family. As usual in those days‚ Radhakrishnan was married in 1906‚ at the tender age of 18 and while still a student‚ to Sivakamamma‚ and spent a happy conjugal life with her for half a century before she died in 1956. He graduated
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Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan‚ OM‚ FBA (5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975) was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice-President of India (1952–1962) and subsequently the second President of India (1962–1967). One of India’s most influential scholars of comparative religion and philosophy‚ Radhakrishnan is considered through his efforts to have built a bridge between the East and the West by showing that the philosophical systems of each tradition are comprehensible within the terms
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