Bhagavad Gita - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 35-37, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

00:00 - Intro

01:39 - 🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 35:

यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव |

येन भूतान्यशेषेण द्रक्ष्यस्यात्मन्यथो मयि || 35||

yaj jñātvā na punar moham evaṁ yāsyasi pāṇḍava

yena bhūtānyaśheṣheṇa drakṣhyasyātmanyatho mayi

🔴By grasping that knowledge, O pandava prince! you will no longer be deluded as you now are; and through that, you will behold all beings in the Self and then in Me.

13:43 - 🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 36:

अपि चेदसि पापेभ्य: सर्वेभ्य: पापकृत्तम: |

सर्वं ज्ञानप्लवेनैव वृजिनं सन्तरिष्यसि || 36||

api ched asi pāpebhyaḥ sarvebhyaḥ pāpa-kṛit-tamaḥ

sarvaṁ jñāna-plavenaiva vṛijinaṁ santariṣhyasi

🔴Even if, among all sinners, you are the very worst, by this raft of knowledge you will go beyond sin.

27:29 - 🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 37:

यथैधांसि समिद्धोऽग्निर्भस्मसात्कुरुतेऽर्जुन |

ज्ञानाग्नि: सर्वकर्माणि भस्मसात्कुरुते तथा || 37||

yathaidhānsi samiddho ’gnir bhasma-sāt kurute ’rjuna

jñānāgniḥ sarva-karmāṇi bhasma-sāt kurute tathā

🔴As a kindled fire reduces all fuel to ashes, so, Arjuna! does the fire of knowledge reduce all works to ashes.

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Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 33-34, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

00:00 - Intro

00:59 - 🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 33:

श्रेयान्द्रव्यमयाद्यज्ञाज्ज्ञानयज्ञ: परन्तप |

सर्वं कर्माखिलं पार्थ ज्ञाने परिसमाप्यते || 33||

śhreyān dravya-mayād yajñāj jñāna-yajñaḥ parantapa

sarvaṁ karmākhilaṁ pārtha jñāne parisamāpyate

🔴The sacrifice of knowledge, O scourage of foes! is superior to the sacrifice of materials. All works, without exception, Arjuna! culminate in knowledge.

14:58 - 🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 34:

तद्विद्धि प्रणिपातेन परिप्रश्नेन सेवया |

उपदेक्ष्यन्ति ते ज्ञानं ज्ञानिनस्तत्त्वदर्शिन: || 34||

tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśhnena sevayā

upadekṣhyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśhinaḥ

🔴Know it by means of obeisance, exhaustive questionings, service to the (teacher). Knowers who have realized the truth will impart to you that knowledge.

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ABOUT VEDANTA

Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

ABOUT US

Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 31-32, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

00:00 - Intro

09:39 - 🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 31:

यज्ञशिष्टामृतभुजो यान्ति ब्रह्म सनातनम् |

नायं लोकोऽस्त्ययज्ञस्य कुतोऽन्य: कुरुसत्तम || 31||

yajña-śhiṣhṭāmṛita-bhujo yānti brahma sanātanam

nāyaṁ loko ’styayajñasya kuto ’nyaḥ kuru-sattama

🔴They partake of the ambrosial remains of these sacrifices and repair to the eternal Brahman. The non-performer of sacrifices does not own (even) this world; why then, O best of Kuru princes! speak of another?

29:05 - 🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 32:

एवं बहुविधा यज्ञा वितता ब्रह्मणो मुखे |

कर्मजान्विद्धि तान्सर्वानेवं ज्ञात्वा विमोक्ष्यसे || 32||

evaṁ bahu-vidhā yajñā vitatā brahmaṇo mukhe

karma-jān viddhi tān sarvān evaṁ jñātvā vimokṣhyase

🔴Thus have many sacrifices been spread out in the pages of the Veda. Know them all to be born of works. Knowing thus will you be liberated.

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Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

ABOUT US

Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 29-30, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 29:

अपाने जुह्वति प्राणं प्राणेऽपानं तथापरे |

प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणा: || 29||

apāne juhvati prāṇaṁ prāṇe ’pānaṁ tathāpare

prāṇāpāna-gatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇāḥ

🔴Some intent on breath-control, blocking the movement of the in-breath and out-breath, sacrifice the in-breath in the out-breath, and similarly, sacrifice the out-breath in the in-breath.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 30:

अपरे नियताहारा: प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति |

सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषा: || 30||

apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇān prāṇeṣhu juhvati

sarve ’pyete yajña-vido yajña-kṣhapita-kalmaṣhāḥ

🔴Yet others, with strictly regulated diet, sacrifice vital breaths in vital breaths. All those are conversant with sacrifice, having destroyed their sins by acts of sacrifice.

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Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

ABOUT US

Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 25-28, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 25:

दैवमेवापरे यज्ञं योगिन: पर्युपासते |

ब्रह्माग्नावपरे यज्ञं यज्ञेनैवोपजुह्वति || 25||

daivam evāpare yajñaṁ yoginaḥ paryupāsate

brahmāgnāvapare yajñaṁ yajñenaivopajuhvati

🔴Some Yogins offer sacrifices to deities; others sacrifice in the fire of Brahman. by means of the sacrifice itself.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 26:

श्रोत्रादीनीन्द्रियाण्यन्ये संयमाग्निषु जुह्वति |

शब्दादीन्विषयानन्य इन्द्रियाग्निषु जुह्वति || 26||

śhrotrādīnīndriyāṇyanye sanyamāgniṣhu juhvati

śhabdādīn viṣhayānanya indriyāgniṣhu juhvati

🔴Others sacrifice the senses, hearing, etc., in the fires of restraints; yet others sacrifice objects like sound in the fires of the senses.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 27:

सर्वाणीन्द्रियकर्माणि प्राणकर्माणि चापरे |

आत्मसंयमयोगाग्नौ जुह्वति ज्ञानदीपिते || 27||

sarvāṇīndriya-karmāṇi prāṇa-karmāṇi chāpare

ātma-sanyama-yogāgnau juhvati jñāna-dīpite

🔴Yet others sacrifice all sense-activities and all activities of vital breaths in the fire of self-restraint, kindled by knowledge.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 28:

द्रव्ययज्ञास्तपोयज्ञा योगयज्ञास्तथापरे |

स्वाध्यायज्ञानयज्ञाश्च यतय: संशितव्रता: || 28||

dravya-yajñās tapo-yajñā yoga-yajñās tathāpare

swādhyāya-jñāna-yajñāśh cha yatayaḥ sanśhita-vratāḥ

🔴Other ascetics, subject to severe disciplines, sacrifice their material possessions, their penances, spiritual exercises, prescribed lessons, and knowledge.

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Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

ABOUT US

Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 23-24, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 23:

गतसङ्गस्य मुक्तस्य ज्ञानावस्थितचेतस: |

यज्ञायाचरत: कर्म समग्रं प्रविलीयते || 23||

gata-saṅgasya muktasya jñānāvasthita-chetasaḥ

yajñāyācharataḥ karma samagraṁ pravilīyate

🔴Whose attachment has vanished, who has been liberated, whose mind has been established in knowledge and who works as a sacrifice, all works are dissolved.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 24:

ब्रह्मार्पणं ब्रह्म हविर्ब्रह्माग्नौ ब्रह्मणा हुतम् |

ब्रह्मैव तेन गन्तव्यं ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना || 24||

brahmārpaṇaṁ brahma havir brahmāgnau brahmaṇā hutam

brahmaiva tena gantavyaṁ brahma-karma-samādhinā

🔴The means of the sacrificial offering is Brahman; Brahman is the oblation placed in the fire of Brahman and by Brahman is the sacrifice made. This sacrificer, who concentrates on the act that is Brahman, reaches Brahman alone.

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ABOUT VEDANTA

Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

ABOUT US

Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 20-22, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 20:

त्यक्त्वा कर्मफलासङ्गं नित्यतृप्तो निराश्रय: |

कर्मण्यभिप्रवृत्तोऽपि नैव किञ्चित्करोति स: || 20||

tyaktvā karma-phalāsaṅgaṁ nitya-tṛipto nirāśhrayaḥ

karmaṇyabhipravṛitto ’pi naiva kiñchit karoti saḥ

🔴Giving up attachment to the fruits of works, eternally content, independent, the man, engaged in works as he is, does nothing at all.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 21:

निराशीर्यतचित्तात्मा त्यक्तसर्वपरिग्रह: |

शारीरं केवलं कर्म कुर्वन्नाप्नोति किल्बिषम् || 21||

nirāśhīr yata-chittātmā tyakta-sarva-parigrahaḥ

śhārīraṁ kevalaṁ karma kurvan nāpnoti kilbiṣham

🔴Free from wxpectations, controlling mind and self, renouncing all possessions, one who does but an exclusive form of bodily work incurs no sin.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 22:

यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सर: |

सम: सिद्धावसिद्धौ च कृत्वापि न निबध्यते || 22||

yadṛichchhā-lābha-santuṣhṭo dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ

samaḥ siddhāvasiddhau cha kṛitvāpi na nibadhyate

🔴Content with what is gained by chance, beyond dualities, rid of competitive spirit, equanimous in gain and loss, one is not bound in spite of working.

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ABOUT VEDANTA

Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

ABOUT US

Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verse 19, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 19:

यस्य सर्वे समारम्भा: कामसङ्कल्पवर्जिता: |

ज्ञानाग्निदग्धकर्माणं तमाहु: पण्डितं बुधा: || 19||

yasya sarve samārambhāḥ kāma-saṅkalpa-varjitāḥ

jñānāgni-dagdha-karmāṇaṁ tam āhuḥ paṇḍitaṁ budhāḥ

🔴Him the wise call a man of discrimination, all of whose undertakings are free from desire-prompted imaginations and all of whose works have been consumed in the fire of knowledge.

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ABOUT VEDANTA

Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

ABOUT US

Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verse 18, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 18:

कर्मण्यकर्म य: पश्येदकर्मणि च कर्म य: |

स बुद्धिमान्मनुष्येषु स युक्त: कृत्स्नकर्मकृत् || 18||

karmaṇyakarma yaḥ paśhyed akarmaṇi cha karma yaḥ

sa buddhimān manuṣhyeṣhu sa yuktaḥ kṛitsna-karma-kṛit

🔴Whoso beholds non-work in work and work in non-work is wise among men; he is integrated; he does all works.

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ABOUT VEDANTA

Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.

ABOUT US

Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 14-17, from the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 14:

न मां कर्माणि लिम्पन्ति न मे कर्मफले स्पृहा |

इति मां योऽभिजानाति कर्मभिर्न स बध्यते || 14||

na māṁ karmāṇi limpanti na me karma-phale spṛihā

iti māṁ yo ’bhijānāti karmabhir na sa badhyate

🔴Works do not taint me; I desire not their fruits. Whoso knows Me to be such, is not bound by works.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 15:

एवं ज्ञात्वा कृतं कर्म पूर्वैरपि मुमुक्षुभि: |

कुरु कर्मैव तस्मात्त्वं पूर्वै: पूर्वतरं कृतम् || 15||

evaṁ jñātvā kṛitaṁ karma pūrvair api mumukṣhubhiḥ

kuru karmaiva tasmāttvaṁ pūrvaiḥ pūrvataraṁ kṛitam

🔴 Knowing thus was done by ancient seekers after liberation. Therefore you too do only work, as was done by the ancients in bygone days.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 16:

किं कर्म किमकर्मेति कवयोऽप्यत्र मोहिता: |

तत्ते कर्म प्रवक्ष्यामि यज्ज्ञात्वा मोक्ष्यसेऽशुभात् || 16||

kiṁ karma kim akarmeti kavayo ’pyatra mohitāḥ

tat te karma pravakṣhyāmi yaj jñātvā mokṣhyase ’śhubhāt

🔴What is work? What is non-work? In respect of these questions the sages even are deluded. Therefore, I shall elucidate the nature of work, by knowing which you will be delivered from evil.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 17:

कर्मणो ह्यपि बोद्धव्यं बोद्धव्यं च विकर्मण: |

अकर्मणश्च बोद्धव्यं गहना कर्मणो गति: || 17||

karmaṇo hyapi boddhavyaṁ boddhavyaṁ cha vikarmaṇaḥ

akarmaṇaśh cha boddhavyaṁ gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ

🔴Indeed you ought to know about work; also you ought to know about bad work; and, besides you ought to know about non-work. Profound is the course of work.

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