Bhagavad Gita

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Dear Learned friends,

I think you will agree that Gita is the essence of Hindu Philosophy and

possibly the last great work in this category. But there is a contradiction in

the sense that many people believe it to be a book of Bhakthi or believe that

reading it would give Punya. I also understand that it is used in courts for

swearing an oath by Hindus.I hope all of you agree that there is something amiss

there..Reading of Gita is great , if we understand the meaning and use it to

choose our own path to understand the ultimate truth.This does not make it a

holy book but a book that would help us understand our relegion and make us

great human beings.

What do you think about this? Do you think that positive vibrations are

produced by reading and that will give us Punya?What is your opinion of it being

the bed rock source for sustaining diverse philosophies of Hinduism such as

Advaitha, Vishishtadwaitha ,Dwaitha, Bhkathicult, KarmaYoga etc. ,? Ramachander

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your opinion of it being the bed rock source for sustaining diverse

philosophies of Hinduism such as Advaitha, Vishishtadwaitha ,Dwaitha,

Bhkathicult, KarmaYoga etc. ,? Ramachander

 

Probably it is the origin of those schools of thought, but in a rather

ill-digested way. The Puranas elaborated his life and personality in

a way that was unknown in the age when the Mahabharat was composed.

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dear friend,

 

the gita is holy. the slokas, per se have the power to

give you some selected results- why ? evry sound in

this world has a prescribed result upon chanting. the

words have vibrations.

 

there is a goddess of gita. i e if u worship gita

alone and not krishna, still you nd up with some

results.

 

thirdly, u need not read gita as a holytext.More than

being religious, it is an ideology.a practical guide

to the man striving- whethr in the sphr of material

world such as in the professional aspects, domestic or

social arenas.. or in the sphere of spiritual

struggle.

 

kishore

 

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dear friend,

is it necessary to chant

can we not repeat in mind

pl clarify

thank u

jaynkbali

 

On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 k s wrote :

> dear friend,

> the gita is holy. the slokas, per se have the power to

> give you some selected results- why ? evry sound in

> this world has a prescribed result upon chanting. the

> words have vibrations.

> there is a goddess of gita. i e if u worship gita

> alone and not krishna, still you nd up with some

> results.

> thirdly, u need not read gita as a holytext.More than

> being religious,  it is an ideology.a practical

> guide

> to the man striving- whethr in the sphr of material

> world such as in the professional aspects, domestic or

> social arenas.. or in the sphere of spiritual

> struggle.

> kishore

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advaitin, k s <t00234> wrote:

> dear friend,

>

> the gita is holy. the slokas, per se have the power to

> give you some selected results- why ? evry sound in

> this world has a prescribed result upon chanting. the

> words have vibrations.

 

Thanks for that, Kishore, but I believe that, by the time of the

Gita, the Vedic tone system had been lost. Therefore you do not chant

it but recite it. My knowledge of Sanskrit is very rudimentary, but I

can say the "Yasvatmaratireva syad........." couplet.

Martin.

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I feel it is more important to understand and apply Bhagavad Geeta than just

chanting. It is a yoga shaastra and not a stuti or stava. Chanting helps

to make us remember what one has already understood and contemplate on its

meaning and apply. The beauty of Bhagavad Geeta is the more one

contemplates the more its gets revealed. Swami Chinmayanandaji used to tell

us - "it is not how many times you go through Bhagavad geeta - but how many

times it goes through you - even if it goes through you once its purpose is

served" -

 

Hari OM!

sadananda

 

 

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hello

 

wud u please care to explain?

 

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dear friends,

 

 

many people recognise the need for practicing. esp

the scriptures like gita and vedas.

 

what i am saying is more preliminary. practice is

important and the next step to chanting.

 

chanting will , like all of us have agreed, make us

remember. but more than that, let us not forget that

the vedas,upanishads and gita are made up of mantras

and the very words comprising of these slokas have

power in themselves.

 

chanting them repeatedly will give u power and results

in themselves- whether u understand them r not ,

whether u try and practice them or not.

 

though ofcourse, a true sadhaka will go further and

implement the above two (higher) steps (ie

understanding the scriptures and practicing them)

without fail.

 

i am not sure whtether i am giving an appropriate

example, it is like hearing a good song in an alien

laungage. even though you cannot understand a word of

it or you cannot sing back, the mere hearing of the

song has some effect on you

 

hope i am clear.

 

 

kishore

 

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advaitin, k s <t00234> wrote:

> hello

>

> wud u please care to explain?

>

 

The language of the earliest Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, had a three

tone system. Thus reciting the Vedas sounds like chanting, though it

is actually some approximation to the way the language was really

spoken. Sanskrit properly speaking came later. The tone system was

lost and the grammar became more complicated, eventually

excruciatingly so. Fortunately the Gita is towards the simpler end

of the scale. The Vedic phrase:

 

sa janaasa Indrah

 

has high tone on the first syllable, middle on the second, low on the

third and fourth and high on the last two. This couplet from the

Gita:

 

 

yastvaatmaratireva syaadaatmatrptashcha maanavah

aatmanyeva cha santushtastasya kaarya na vidyate

 

can be recited more or less like modern poetry. In fact chanting it

gives a false impression.

Mart.