Gita For Daily Living

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 7,8,9,10 Lecture discusses three types of food that people like in accordance with the predominance of Satva, Rajas or Tamas in their mental makeup.  

 Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 5, & 6 Lecture discusses three types of faith in accordance with the predominance of Satva, Rajas or Tamas in a person’s mental makeup.

 Bhagavad Gita Ch. 17 “Yoga of Threefold Faith” Verses 1,2,3 & 4 Lecture discusses the nature of faith in a person who does not depend on the traditional books of wisdom to determine what to do and what not to do.

 Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses  23, & 24 Lecture discusses Lord Krishna’s advice to follow the scriptures to decide what to do and what not to do in life here and now to achieve happiness and the supreme goal of liberation from limitations.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses  20, 21 & 22 Lecture discusses three negative tendencies – lust, anger and greed which make people go through hellish experiences in life and therefore in order to achieve happiness one must avoid them.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 17,18, & 19 Lecture discusses how our egos boosted by the negative tendencies make us believe that our identification with our accomplishments and achievements will make us happy but in fact we end up in immeasurable worries.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 14, 15, & 16 Lecture discusses how negative tendencies make us believe that we are in control of our lives and our actions are helping us achieving security but in fact these tendencies are binding us to more unhappiness and insecurities.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 11,  12, & 13 Lecture discusses how negative – Asuric tendencies make people behave in a manner that binds them to immeasurable worries till their deaths and destructions.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses 8,9,& 10 Lecture discusses how to detect negative – Asuric tendencies in our personality which cause sorrows and unhappiness.

Bhagavad Gita Ch. 16 “Yoga of Divine and Devilish Estates” Verses  5, 6, & 7 Lecture discusses five negative tendencies born out of ignorance in human personality which bind them to the limited ego and cause sorrows and unhappiness.