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Adhri Paul
• Martin Roy
• To accomplish one’s Dharma, one must be able to
accomplish their work with the philosophy of Karma Yoga,
which is do your work as you would do an offer without any
expectations in return. Self-liberation should not even be
an expectation.
• And to be able to do Karma yoga, one must first understand
the origin of the human being and his role on earth,
through the guidance of a guru (learning about
atma/consciousness versus material).
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• Martin Roy
• He must also learn to discriminate between actions
arising from the soul versus actions arising from
personal/material desires. Having this self-knowledge
and offering our actions to God are some of the
characteristics of a realized man.
• And doing all actions through Karma Yoga can eventually
stop the reincarnation process. But again, getting free
from reincarnation process should not even be an
expectation.
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About Instructor
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Objective of chapter -1
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Bhagavad Gita
Chapter -1 Summary
•The first chapter of Bhagavad-Gita describes two
main points:
1. Arrangement of army on the battle of
Mahabharata.
2. Arjuna's compassion, confusion and surrender
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Chapter 2
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BG -2.47
karmaṇy evādhikāras te
mā phaleṣu kadācana
mā karma-phala-hetur bhūr
mā te saṅgo ’stv akarmaṇi
• You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are
not entitled to the fruits of action.
• Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your
activities, and
• never be attached to not doing your duty.
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Bg. 2.50
बु यु ो जहातीह उभे सु कृतदु ृ ते ।
त ा ोगाय यु योगः कमसु कौशलम् ॥ ५० ॥
buddhi-yukto jahātīha
ubhe sukṛta-duṣkṛte
tasmād yogāya yujyasva
yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam
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Lamentation / Confusion
Main reason :
Attachment to results
Attachment to sense enjoyment ( Vishaya Bhoga )
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Sense
Control
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Higher taste
Bg. 2.59
परं ा िनवतते ॥
paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate
Though the embodied soul may be
restricted from sense enjoyment, the taste
for sense objects remains.
But, ceasing such engagements by
experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in
consciousness.
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Power of senses
The senses are so strong and impetuous, O Arjuna, that they
forcibly carry away the mind even of a man of discrimination
who is endeavoring to control them. BG 2.60
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Bg 2.70
āpūryamāṇam acala-pratiṣṭhaṁ
samudram āpaḥ praviśanti yadvat
tadvat kāmā yaṁ praviśanti sarve
sa śāntim āpnoti na kāma-kāmī
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Bg 2.70
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Bg. 3.2
ािम े णेव वा ेन बु ं मोहयसीव मे ।
तदे कं वद िनि ये न े योऽहमा नुयाम् ॥ २ ॥
vyāmiśreṇeva vākyena
buddhiṁ mohayasīva me
tad ekaṁ vada niścitya
yena śreyo ’ham āpnuyām
My intelligence is bewildered by Your equivocal instructions.
Therefore, please tell me decisively which will be most beneficial for
me.
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My intelligence is bewildered
by Your equivocal
instructions. Therefore,
please tell me decisively
which will be most beneficial
for me.
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Bg. 3.4
Lord Krishna said:
न कमणामनार ा ै पु षोऽ ुते ।
न च स सनादे व िस ं समिधग ित ॥ ४ ॥
na karmaṇām anārambhān
naiṣkarmyaṁ puruṣo ’śnute
na ca sannyasanād eva
siddhiṁ samadhigacchati
Not by merely abstaining from work can one achieve freedom from
reaction, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection.
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Bg. 3.5
न िह कि णमिप जातु ित कमकृत् ।
कायते वशः कम सवः कृितजै गुणैः ॥ ५ ॥
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3 Modes of
Nature
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Three modes
of nature
Mode of Goodness
Mode of Passion
Mode of Ignorance
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Bg. 3.6
कम यािण सं य य आ े मनसा रन् ।
इ याथा मू ढा ा िम ाचारः स उ ते ॥ ६ ॥
karmendriyāṇi saṁyamya
ya āste manasā smaran
indriyārthān vimūḍhātmā
mithyācāraḥ sa ucyate
One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells
on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a
pretender.
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Bg. 3.7
य यािण मनसा िनय ारभते ऽजुन ।
कम यै ः कमयोगमस ः स िविश ते ॥ ७ ॥
yas tv indriyāṇi manasā
niyamyārabhate ’rjuna
karmendriyaiḥ karma-yogam
asaktaḥ sa viśiṣyate
On the other hand, if a sincere person tries to control the
active senses by the mind and begins karma-yoga [in Kṛṣṇa
consciousness] without attachment, he is by far superior.
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Bg. 3.8
िनयतं कु कम ं कम ायो कमणः ।
शरीरया ािप च ते न िस े दकमणः ॥ ८ ॥
niyataṁ kuru karma tvaṁ
karma jyāyo hy akarmaṇaḥ
śarīra-yātrāpi ca te
na prasidhyed akarmaṇaḥ
Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than
not working. One cannot even maintain one’s physical
body without work.
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Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working.
One cannot even maintain one’s physical body without work.
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Bg. 3.9
य ाथा मणोऽ लोकोऽयं कमब नः ।
तदथ कम कौ े य मु स ः समाचर ॥ ९ ॥
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Art of
Working
Work as
sacrifice
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ṅ
ḥ
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BG. 3.13
य श टा शनः स तो
मु य ते सव कि बषै ।
भु जते ते वघं पापा ये
पच या मकारणात ् ॥ १३ ॥
yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo
mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ
bhuñjate te tv aghaṁ pāpā
ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt
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BG. 3.13
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Prasadam
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Bg. 3.14
अ ा व भू तािन पज ाद स वः ।
य ा वित पज ो य ः कमसमु वः ॥ १४ ॥
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Bg. 3.16
एवं व ततं च ं
नानव
ु तयतीह यः ।
अघायु रि यारामो
मोघं पाथ स जीव त ॥ १६ ॥
evaṁ pravartitaṁ cakraṁ
nānuvartayatīha yaḥ
aghāyur indriyārāmo
moghaṁ pārtha sa jīvati
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Bg. 3.16
My dear Arjuna, one who does not
follow in human life the cycle of
sacrifice
thus established by the Vedas
certainly leads a life full of sin.
Living only for the satisfaction of
the senses, such a person lives in
vain.
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Role of leaders
Bg. 3.21
य यदाचर त े ठ त दे वेतरो जनः ।
स य माणं कु ते लोक तदनुवतते ॥ २१ ॥
yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas
tat tad evetaro janaḥ
sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute
lokas tad anuvartate
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Role of leaders
Bg. 3.21
Whatever action a great man
performs, common men follow. And
whatever standards he sets by
exemplary acts, all the world
pursues.
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Lead by example
Bg. 3.22
न मे पाथाि त कत यं षु लोकेषु क चन ।
नानवा तमवा त यं वत एव च कम ण ॥ २२ ॥
na me pārthāsti kartavyaṁ
triṣu lokeṣu kiñcana
nānavāptam avāptavyaṁ
varta eva ca karmaṇi
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Lead by example
Bg. 3.22
O son of Pṛthā, there is no work prescribed
for Me within all the three planetary
systems.
Nor am I in want of anything, nor have I a
need to obtain anything –
and yet I am engaged in prescribed duties.
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Bg. 3.23
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BG 3.24
Devotee does not engage
himself in the senses and
sense gratification,
knowing well the
differences between work
in devotion and work for
fruitive results
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Bg. 3.25
स ाः कम िव ां सो यथा कुव भारत ।
कुयाि ां थास ि कीषु ल कसङ् हम् ॥ २५ ॥
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False ego
Bg. 3.27
कृतेः यमाणा न गुणैः कमा ण सवशः ।
अह कार वमढ ू ा मा कताह म त म यते ॥ २७ ॥
prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā
kartāham iti manyate
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False ego
Bg. 3.27
The spirit soul bewildered by the
influence of false ego
thinks himself the doer of activities
that are in actuality carried out by the
three modes of material nature.
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Surrender
Bg. 3.30
म य सवा ण कमा ण स य या या मचेतसा ।
नराशी नममो भू वा यु य व वगत वरः ॥ ३० ॥
mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi
sannyasyādhyātma-cetasā
nirāśīr nirmamo bhūtvā
yudhyasva vigata-jvaraḥ
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Surrender
Bg. 3.30
Therefore, O Arjuna, surrendering all
your works unto Me,
with full knowledge of Me, without
desires for profit, with no claims to
proprietorship, and free from lethargy,
fight.
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d) None of these
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Bg. 3.36
अजु न उवाच
अथ केन यु ोऽयं पापं चरित पू षः ।
अिन िप वा य बलािदव िनयोिजतः ॥ ३६ ॥
arjuna uvāca
atha kena prayukto ’yaṁ
pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ
anicchann api vārṣṇeya
balād iva niyojitaḥ
Arjuna said: O descendant of Vṛṣṇi, by what is one impelled to
sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?
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Bg. 3.37
ी भगवानु वाच
काम एष ोध एष रजोगु णसमु वः ।
महाशनो महापा ा िव े निमह वै रणम् ॥ ३७ ॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
kāma eṣa krodha eṣa
rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ
mahāśano mahā-pāpmā
viddhy enam iha vairiṇam
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BG 3.37
The Supreme Personality of Godhead
said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is
born of contact with the material mode
of passion and
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Bg. 3.39
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Bg. 3.40
इ यािण मनो बु र ािध ानमु ते ।
एतै िवमोहय े ष ानमावृ दे िहनम् ॥ ४० ॥
The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of this
lust.
Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living entity and
bewilders him.
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The senses, the mind and the intelligence are the sitting places of
this lust. Through them lust covers the real knowledge of the living
entity and bewilders him
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Bg. 3.41
त ा िम या ादौ िनय भरतषभ ।
पा ानं जिह ेनं ानिव ाननाशनम् ॥ ४१ ॥
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Bg. 3.42
इ यािण परा ा र ये ः परं मनः ।
मनस ु परा बु य बु े ः परत ु सः ॥ ४२ ॥
indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur
indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ
manasas tu parā buddhir
yo buddheḥ paratas tu saḥ
The working senses are superior to dull matter;
mind is higher than the senses;
Intelligence is still higher than the mind; and
he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence.
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Thus knowing oneself to be
transcendental to the material senses,
mind and intelligence,
O mighty-armed Arjuna, one should
steady the mind by deliberate spiritual
intelligence [Kṛṣṇa consciousness] and
thus –
by spiritual strength – conquer this
insatiable enemy known as lust.
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3 Modes of
Nature
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Three modes
of nature
Mode of Goodness
Mode of Passion
Mode of Ignorance
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Types of Karma
Good karma
Bad Karma
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Relative nature
Good and Bad Karma doesn't depend on activity it self
e.g. Murder V/S Killing in a war
Breaking the house-thief V/S Firefighter
Eating - Too much V/S regulated eating.
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Bad Karma
Four activities are considered ABSOLUTELY sinful
Meat eating- as no mercy
Illicit sex- no cleanliness of mind
Intoxication - no austerity
Gambling - No truthfulness
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“Every
action has
an equal and
opposite
reaction.”
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Variants of Karma
Individual Karma
Collective Karma
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“You are
what you
eat”
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Bear
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Tree
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The Lord is
seated in our heart
as the Parmatma
as a witness to
our activities.
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If we engage in sinful
activities of
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Illicit Sex
Meat Eating
Gambling
Intoxication
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…we will
suffer…
… KARMIC Reactions
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…and degrade
to lower life
forms.
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Messages of Water
Masaru Emoto
Hado Institute (IHM) Tokyo
Hado
(pronounced hadou to rhyme with shadow) =
wave/vibration/energy
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"Arigatou“
Water that has been exposed to the words
Thank you in
“You make me sick. I will kill you.“ typed
Japanese
on a paper pasted on the bottle. (Page 94)
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Bach's "Goldberg
Variations". (Page 78)
Beethoven’s music Chopin's
“Pastoral” "Farewell Song".
(Page 79)
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Distilled water labeled "Do It". Distilled water labeled "Let's Do It".
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