"The Four Aspects of Mind" - The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda

Part 2 - http://www.crystalclarity.com/product.php?code=BEBPB The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda as remembered by his disciple, Swami Kriyananda. This book shares the profound insights of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, as remembered by one of his few remaining direct disciples, Swami Kriyananda.

This revelation of India's best-loved scripture approaches it from an entirely fresh perspective, showing its deep allegorical meaning and also its down-to-earth practicality. The themes presented are universal: how to achieve victory in life in union with the divine; how to prepare for life's "final exam," death, and what happens afterward; how to triumph over all pain and suffering.

Swami Kriyananda worked with Paramhansa Yogananda in 1950 while the Master completed his commentary of the Bhagavad Gita. At that time Yogananda commissioned him to disseminate his teachings world-wide. Kriyananda has in his lifetime lectured, taught, and written over one hundred books based on Yogananda's teachings.

The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita is available from Crystal Clarity Publishers.

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[SilverRedIndigo]

I feel a genuine kindness from you and true love and compassion for humanity.

Your eyes, you manner and your voice are very soft and refined.

Would you say that someone who was not seeking detachment from the world, but was rather harnessing their emotions and mind to the task of creating justice in the world is also caught in the wheel of delusion?

Sometimes it seem so to me.

[AnandaWorldwide]

It is important to realize that justice exists only in God. Yes, I

feel compassion for all humanity, but if I "harnessed my emotions" to the task of creating justice, I'd be very frustrated, and probably would lose my compassion in the emotion of anger at the prevalent lack of justice.

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[AnandaWorldwide]

I long ago realized that the quest for justice in this world is a snare. Thoreau said that, when we see a wrong, we should fight to correct it. Well and good, if there were only one wrong, and if one could fight with compassion and not anger. What, however, if there be a million wrongs? And that, quite simply, is the case on this earth! Without inner peace, I could help no one.

swami kriyananda

[AnandaWorldwide]

One accomplishes more by solution-consciousness than by problem-consciousness.

swami

[finwinstheylose]

no offence but what have you achieved in life, what power do you have to shape the world in this vision

[AnandaWorldwide]

Well, I don't know that I've achieved anything, for whatever I've done of any merit has never been mine. Still, you could read something on the subject yourself, if you want information. It isn't for me to talk about it.

swami kryananda

[joyiswithinyoudotcom]

I love the example given of the horse! Where you explain how the ego works and how to know in ourselves when we are attached to things of this world and how to avoid becoming attached in the first place! Thank you !! It helps. :)

[Chemgirl99]

Thank you Swami. You changed my life with your message.

[SilverRedIndigo]

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Yes, I yearn for serenity. I am now 52 years old and I am weary.

But there is something more important than my personal peace - it is the collective peace.

Yes, I get angry. Oh, and how I get angry and terribly frustrated. That is when I think that my efforts affect this world directly and I "want results". Then God reminds me that there is something else going on behind the screen I see this movie on.

It's something like the Buddhist Boddhisatva.

But yes, I know it is illusion.

Shalom

[SilverRedIndigo]

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So God is in this world.

In this world God is humanity striving to be God and God playing at being human.

There is something else that is accomplished by the wear and tear of struggling for justice. I do not know what and we are not supposed to know what when we are incarnate, but it is very important.

Rabbi Nachman said: We do not accomplish our moral/spiritual task in accordance with the success we achieve, but in accordance with the effort we put in.

[soniameh]

forgive me swamiji in my humble opinion i say that the vedas state that one must show mercy and be a vegetarian, Meat eating carries heavy karma

[gjsterp]

Your belief seems to have given you serenity, humility, and sincerity.

A hard combination to find in other "gurus" of other religions.

[gjsterp]

You need to be more specific as what to read.

I tried to read the Gita, but it seemed too esoteric to me. The allegory was totally alien. I still have a copy, but I don't feel motivated to read it.