RE: Geeta

[Guest guest]

Om Namo Narayanaya!

It is very encouraging to see your mail Vinod. I too was hoping that we could

get started around Vishu, so that is good! You raise very good points about

organizing the mails; I hope Sunil can help us with organizing the mails

timewise and just putting them in a single folder every week, so that if some

one has missed a mail or not had time to read, he/she can go back to that folder

and catch up.

I am still hoping more members will respond. Ideally if we have 9 people on

this, each of us can take responsibility for 2 chapters; otherwise we can just

decide on the most important chapters we want discussed and go with that. Post 2

slokas every Monday or if we are starting on Vishu day, it is a Thursday. So we

can have 2 slokas every Thursday or every other Thursday? and spent the time

between to discuss or address any points.

 

Om Namo Narayanaya!

 

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" PS, Vinod K (GE Energy) " <vinod.ps wrote:

 

!! Sri Rama Jayam !!

 

Veena - Let me tell you that " Krishna " has opted you to initiate this sacred

proposal of divinity. I am very much eager to express my welcome this

great-great idea. As I have heard from the leading acharyas - " Bhagavattam " is

the soul of Krishna & " Gita " is his mind ..... But understanding GITA being a

very responsible & serious job, extreme attention & involvement of each one of

us is always expected. Hence, interested devotees to share this pious task must

come forward & brief out there plans to frame this work in a proper going. Let

me express my interest to this job at first.

Veena, I agree with you on the point that one needs to understand the full depth

of each shloka that our Lord stated in GITA & hence, prioritising shlokas &

concerned chapters is also very important. Hence, a period of 2 weeks (as I

feel) must cover the entire essence of 2 or 3 selected shlokas. Let us not keep

the discussion restricted to one day....but keep it moving every day. Becoz, we

will be sending our purports on each shlokas, the subject tile should speak the

" Chapter number & the shloka number " in every message. Moreover, to retain the

continuity of discussion, the sorting of mails timewise is another IMP job.

Thirdly, one should take the responsibility of combining these messages on the

same shloka into one message & refloat it across the group at the end of each

day. This will help all of us to keep the track of flow & understanding. Once,

the entire discussion on a shloka gets completed, it should be documented as one

file in our database for easy access & a review, if

required.

 

Wish to hear more on this.

Through a sincere planning, hopefully by VISHU time we all can start with this.

 

Hare Krishna....

Hare Rama....

 

 

 

 

Veena Nair [vee_1807]

Friday, April 01, 2005 1:02 AM

guruvayur

[Guruvayur/Guruvayoor] Re:Krishna Bhagavan group !!

 

 

 

Yes I did get this email abt the Krishna Bhagavan grp while ago and deleted it!

 

I wanted to ask the group if it would be possible for us to start a weekly

posting of slokas from the Geeta? Members who regulary post to this group could

volunteer to post 2 or 3 slokas from the Gita once a week (we could fix a day)

and then the next few days whoever wanted to post queries or further

interpretations or explanations for those slokas could do that. We could post

the Sankrit version of the sloka alongwith the English version so that most

members wd have no problem reading it. But we do need conscientious members who

would take responsibility for a certain chapter, post all the slokas, however

many weeks that takes, and then the next volunteer could start the next chapter

and so on. So say every Monday we cd post the 2/3 slokas with their literal

meaning, as given in the text we are referring to, and then a brief summary of

the explanation in our own words. In the subsequent days, if other members want

to add to it they cd do that. Then next Monday the next 2/3! and so

on.

 

What does everyone say? if you think it is a do-able idea, then pl send out an

email about which chapters you would like to do, a preferred day that you want

to do this and number of slokas per day (once a week).

 

I hope lot of people will respond.

Om Namo Narayanaya!!

 

" PS, Vinod K (GE Energy) " <vinod.ps wrote:

 

!! Sri Rama Jayam !!

 

Today evening, I have received one mail from " Krishna Bhagavan " group

( - <rx_rajeev rx_rajeev) inviting my

membership. I am really surprised to see this especially when I saw --- " This

invitation expires in 7 days (??) " ......and, " Free kerala based Sri Krishna

forum to solve all your problems (??)... "

This appeared to me more as a business advertisement.

I am very unhappy to see " Krishna " projected this way.

Please let me know, if any of you have received a similar thing.

Your suggestions are very important in this respect.

 

Thanks.

 

Hare Krishna ......

Hare Rama ........

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Om Namo Narayanaya.

 

It is nice when group members discuss a issue thoroughly before agreeing to it

in any form or manner. It is even better when such exchanges take place with an

attitude of mutual respect and encouragement. Grateful thanks.

 

I read the Geeta every Ekadashi and find it to be a source of big strength and

faith.

It doesn't matter what the problem:

Whether the loss of a loved one, whether a disagreement with family or

friends, whether money or illness problems, whether lack of motivation or

lack of a goal in life. Even if you don't have any problems in life, and you

have everything a normal human would want, but also think that there is

something more to life than just growing up, studying, getting a job, getting

married and having children, the Geeta inspires and encourages.

 

So the idea was to share with group members something that can only do good. If

someone has never read the Geeta, this might be a good time to start. The fact

that books are available in English/Hindi/Sanskrit (and I assume most members in

this group are comfortable with one of these languages) makes it easier to read,

because most books have the actual slokas alongwith the English or Hindi

pronunciation. If some members still feel intimidated, don't worry; you can

follow the discussion among members and maybe the desire to read will come on

its own, which is even better.

 

We could just start with a single chapter, could be Chapter two, which has 70+

slokas where Bhagawan sets out the entire Geeta (the great Teacher that He is,

He first tells you what he is going to teach in chapter 2, and then teaches the

matter in the next 15 chapters and then summarizes the whole text in chapter

18). Or we could do chapter 12 which is Bhakti Yoga and has only 20 slokas. Once

we see through this successfully we could then decide if we want to continue.

 

I have and refer to 1) " Shankaracharya's Geeta Bhashya - an English translation

by Dr.A.G. Krishna Warrier published from Ramkrishna Math, Mylapore, Chennai 2)

Swami Chinmayananda's discourses on the Geeta, who gave lot of lectures in India

and even more in the U.S. and 3) the 'Geetamrutam' by the late Shri Pandurang

Shastri Athavale whose discourses on the Geeta have been collected into a book

and was basically meant for the common man.

 

We could start by talking about the significance of the Geeta, the reasons why

God chose Arjuna for narrating the Geeta, then the invocation prayer : " Om

Parthaayprathibodhitaam... " which again talks abt the significance of the Geeta

and then start with the slokas.

 

If one is in this group, it means one is a devotee of Guruvayurappan and wishes

to be part of a satsang. Talking abt the Geeta or any scripture is only a way to

increase that devotion and become closer to God. We do it in our way, sharing

what we have understood from what we have read, and raising questions if we

don't, hoping that way to also bond as a group.

 

" Vasudevasutam-devam kamsa-chaanura-mardhanam

Devaki-parmaanandam Krishnam-vande Jagatgurum "