07/04/22 pm – Aspects of Bhagavad-gita (Hindi) – Delhi

-Description of Bhagavad-gita chapters
-The reason why bhakti chapter is in the middle of Bhagavad-gita
-Definition of dharma and adharma
-Adharma made for the sake of Krishna is dharma and dharma made not for Krishna is adharma. Example of Yudhishthira who did not want to lie for the sake of Krishna (Ashvathama elephant)
-To lie to save someone’s life is not a lie. It’s truth
-Bhagavan makes lila, human beings make karma
-Story of a boy bit by a snake while plucking the flowers to serve a deity
-Lila of Bhakti Prajnana Keshava Gosvami Maharaja teaching Narasimha Maharaja to give all the money collected to a guru not keeping a cent for some reason (teaching: we should give everything to our guru as we cannot digest those material things and thus should be cleansed to become prasada)
-Jiva should not even think of doing rasa-lila
-Mahaprabhu asks Raya Ramananda of a topmost goal
-Bhagavan Ramachabra excellently followed varnashrama-dharma. The reason why He killed Bali
-Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura: The more you follow varnashrama-dharma the more you enter bhakti. Otherwise there will be no happiness neither in this life nor in the next one
-Bhagavan is pleased when you follow varnashrama-dharma
-śruti-smṛti-purāṇādi-pañcarātra-vidhiṃ vinā aikāntikī harer bhaktir utpātāyaiva kalpate: not to follow rules and regulations of bhakti pretending to be a one-pointed devotee is just bringing disturbance to a society
-Gita is such a priceless book. It explains all tattvas
-Bhagavan is very pleased when we read Bhagavad-gita
-Bheda-abheda: svagata-bheda (there are no differences between Bhagavan’s body parts), sajatiya-bheda (there are no differences between Bhagavan and His incarnations) and vijatiya-bheda (there are no differences between Bhagavan and what is completely opposite of Him)