Srimad Bhagavad Gita || Swami Shantatmananda || Sunday Bhagavad Gita Classes
Ramakrishna Mission Delhi
There is a regular discourse on Srimad Bhagavad Gita on Sundays. This is the audio recording of the same (Sunday, Bhagavad Gita Classes) by Rev. Swami Shantatmanandaji Maharaj in Sarada Auditorium at Ramakrishna Mission, Delhi . The subsequent addition of lectures will be done after each class. All are welcome to join the same. Watch online Classes on our YouTube Channel : Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi , (https://bit.ly/32P2l9f) About Bhagavad Gita: Sri Ramakrishna: "What is the significance of the Gita? It is what you find by repeating the word ten times. It is then reversed into 'tagi', which means a person who has renounced everything for God. And the lesson of the Gita is: 'O man, renounce everything and seek God alone.' Whether a man is a monk or a householder, he has to shake off all attachment from his mind........Sri Ramakrishna ( The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna ) Swami Vivekananda: "Nature will have her way. What can suppression do?" (Gita, III. 33.) That is a terrible [statement] in the Gita. It seems it may be a vain struggle after all. You may have a hundred thousand [urges competing] at the same time. You may repress [them], but the moment the spring rebounds, the whole thing is there again. [But there is hope]. If you are powerful enough, you can divide your consciousness into twenty parts all at the same time. I am changing my psychology. Mind grows. That is what the Yogis say. There is one passion and it rouses another, and the first one dies. If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger, you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream. The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured. We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were....Swami Vivekananda (Delivered in San Francisco, on May 26, 1900, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol.1 ) Website: http://www.rkmdelhi.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rkmdelhi.org Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rkmdelhi Note:-The audio lectures uploaded here may or may not be in the sequence, because it was recorded years ago and date stamped by the audio recorder is not correct when checked manually, however, we have tried our best to put them in sequence after listening to the content.