Summary of Gita Class - 17/08/2008

Harekrishna Everyone!!!!

Here is the summary of Gita Class at Suhrud's House on 17th August 2008:

There was a sanskar puja in the beginning for good mental health of the upcoming baby and Manasi.

The recap:
The Bhagwad gita Chapter 2 Verse 39 & 40 were discussed.

Until verse 38 Krishna instructs Arjuna to fight for Fruitive results. He was doing this to actually checking the IQ level of Arjuna and testing if he can be satisfied and convinced to fight. However, Arjuna's speculative calculation and analysis was that he would not want to kill too many people just for gaining material kingdom. This Speculative calculation and conclusion based on his own mental analysis is termed as SANKHYA yoga by lord shri krishna.

In verse 39, Krishna understands that Arjuna will not be satified and convinced to fight the war (or rather his IQ is much more). He needs more higher philosophical explanation as to what is right and what is wrong. This is the FIRST verse from krishna that instructs about NISHKAM karma (without fruitive result)

In Verse 40, Krishna insructs Arjuna that any progress in krishna consciousness is carried by a soul into next life. So there is no fear of falling down unlike in material life where we can go to any lower species depending on our attachment.

Key points:
1. We have two paths to follow: Sankhya Yoga and Bhakti Yoga.
2. Sankhya Yoga - We can speculate and conduct analysis for our entire life time just to reach Krishna (No guarantee this will be successful).
3. Bhakti Yoga - Accept krishna as the supreme and completely surrender.
4. Progress in Krishna Consciousness will be carried over to next life.


Next Class Scheduled @ 4:00pm - 6:00 pm on Saturday, 30th August 2008.

Girish & Ambika's Residence
Unit 8
27-31 Queen Victoria Street
Kogarah, NSW 2217.