First Time Gita Delivered Was Spoken

Vivasvân the name of the present sungod, to whom
Bhagavad-gîtâ was explained a 120.400.000 years ago

No difference between reference and referent

Hare Krishna Friends, So Lord Krsna's instructions to Arjuna to "remember Me" and Lord Caitanya's injunction to "always chant the names of Lord Krsna" are the same instruction. There is no difference, because Krsna and Krsna's name are nondifferent. In the absolute status there is no difference between reference and referent. Therefore we have to practice remembering the Lord always, twenty-four hours a day, by chanting His names and molding our life's activities in such a way that we can remember Him always. Source:Bhagavad Gita As It Is by HDG. A.C. BhaktiVedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

Our greatest success

Lecture
Los Angeles - July, 1971
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

He (Lord Caitanya) was traveling in South India. He saw one brahmana reading Bhagavad-gita. And persons who knew him, that "That man was illiterate," it was not possible for him to read Bhagavad-gita... But still, he was trying to read it, and crying also. So while others were criticizing, Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to him,

 "Brahmana, what you are reading?" So he could understand that "This person, He's not come here to criticize me. He's serious." So he talked seriously, "Sir, I am reading Bhagavad-gita. Unfortunately, I am illiterate." Now see. He is illiterate and he is reading Bhagavad-gita.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu inquired that "How is that, you're reading Bhagavad-gita and you say you are illiterate?" He said, "Yes, actually I am illiterate, but my Guru Maharaja asked me that 'You should read every day eighteen chapters.' So what can I do? (laughter) I have to carry out the order of my spiritual master. So I have simply taken this book. I am seeing it."

Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Oh, you are not seeing it, simply. You are crying also." "Yes, Sir, I am crying also." "Then if you are not reading, how you are crying?" "Sir, I am not reading, but I'm feeling." "What is that?"

"As soon as I take this Bhagavad-gita in my hand, immediately I feel Krsna and Arjuna sitting on the same chariot, and Arjuna is ordering Krsna that 'You drive my chariot between the two soldiers,' and Krsna is driving. So I am simply feeling how Krsna is nice, that He can work as a servant of His devotee. When I feel like that, I cry, how Krsna is so kind."

Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately embraced him, that "You are really studying Bhagavad-gita."

So unless we develop our love for Krsna, there is no meaning of reading. And if we can develop our love for Krsna just like this brahmana, even without reading any book, that is wanted. That is wanted. Mayy asakta-manah. Therefore Krsna also confirms, mayy asakta-manah, "Simply by increasing attachment for Me." ...If you simply understand Krsna, then everything will be understood. Because Krsna is everything, God is everything. To understand Krsna, simply this attachment... Mayy asakta-manah...So the whole process is to increase our feeling of love for Krsna. That is required. Not anything else...

Everyone is working to get some result. That is called fruitive activities. So a pure devotee has no such desires. He has no other desires. Anukulyena krsnanu-silanam. Their only business is how to please Krsna. That can be done by everyone, if he wants. ...So if we want to love Krsna, Krsna will let us know. Krsna is within you. Simply we have to decide that we shall love Krsna only. That is wanted. Then everything is there. ...If you do not love, do not develop your love for God or Krsna, then what is the use of your philosophizing and scientific knowledge?...

Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommends this. Prema pumartho mahan. Our greatest success of life is how to love God, Krsna. That is greatest success. Now you can do it.

Arjunacharya

Arjunacharya was writing a commentary on Bhagvad Gita, and it came to the Shloka where Lord Krishna says, "He carries what we have and provides what we lack." How is that Lord will come Himself and deliver the goods? Oh, it is not possible. He might be sending through some agents. Let me change His words from "I bear the burden and deliver."and instead write "I send some agent who delivers." After some time, I shall go and take bath now. In the meantime, two very beautiful boys came with a cart full of highly valuable items like fruits, grains, ghee and vegetables. Arjunacharya's wife was there at home. My dear mother, Arjunacharya has sent these goods to you. Please take delivery. Arjuncharya's wife :-Oh, You are so beautiful boys, and he has given these items to you to get it there? Arjunacharya is not so cruel. How is that he has given so much burden to you???? Boys: He asked us to carry on our heads, How can we carry so much? I refused to carry on my head, so he has beaten me. Arjunacharya's wife:- Arjunacharya is not so cruel. How he has become so cruel? Ok, take some food stuffs now. Boys : We have to go now, if he will come then he will chastise us. Arjunacharya's wife:- No, no. You sit down, I will prepare foodstuffs for you. Arjunacharya returns after taking bath..... Arjunacharya's wife:- Acharya, you have become so much cruel nowadays ? Arjunacharya , Oh, what is that ??? Arjunacharya's wife :- Two boys, very nice boys, they have brought so many foodstuffs. You loaded on their head and they denied to take it and you have beaten them chastised? Arjunacharya No. I have never done this. Why shall i do it???? Then Arjunacharya understood that Oh My Lord is so great !! He has shown that He actually personally bears the burden and delivers the goods ! Because I cut his alphabets, He has shown that beating mark. MORAL : Krishna's property is unlimited we cannot understand his power by our infinitesimal intelligence. He expands himself to interact with each & every spirit soul personally.

When a living entity comes in contact with the material creation

Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 3:36-37
By His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami

Although the living entity sometimes does not want to act in sin, he is still forced to act. Sinful actions are not, however, impelled by the Supersoul within, but are due to another cause…
When a living entity comes in contact with the material creation, his eternal love for Krishna is transformed into lust…
Therefore, lust is the greatest enemy of the living entity, and it is lust only which induces the pure living entity to remain entangled in the material world…This material creation is created by the Lord to give facility to the conditioned souls to fulfill these lustful propensities, and when completely baffled by prolonged lustful activities, the living entities begin to inquire about their real position.

The Vedic culture

The Vedic culture is respected all over the world, and there are people everywhere eager to understand it. The highest perfectional stage of understanding Vedic culture is explained in the Bhagavad-gita, in the Fifteenth Chapter (15.15), where the Lord says that the purpose of all the Vedas is to understand Him (Lord Krsna).

Moksha / Nirvana / Samadhi / Liberation / Mukti

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moksha
Moksha - Comes from word Moha infatuation or delusion and Shaya - Finish
Nirvana as Moksa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana#Nirvana_as_Moksa
Samadhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

Simplest way Of attaining True Liberation
Chapter 8. Attaining the Supreme

TEXT 7

tasmat sarvesu kalesu
mam anusmara yudhya ca
mayy arpita-mano-buddhir
mam evaisyasy asamsayah

SYNONYMS
tasmat--therefore; sarvesu--always; kalesu--time; mam--unto Me; anusmara--go on remembering; yudhya--fight; ca--also; mayi--unto Me; arpita--surrender; manah--mind; buddhih--intellect; mam--unto Me; eva--surely; esyasi--will attain; asamsayah--beyond a doubt.

TRANSLATION
Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Krsna and at the same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting. With your activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you will attain Me without doubt.

PURPORT
This instruction to Arjuna is very important for all men engaged in material activities. The Lord does not say that one should give up his prescribed duties or engagements. One can continue them and at the same time think of Krsna by chanting Hare Krsna. This will free one from material contamination and engage the mind and intelligence in Krsna. By chanting Krsna's names, one will be transferred to the supreme planet, Krsnaloka, without a doubt.

Can a person in Samsara attain mukti
Chapter 3. Karma-yoga
http://www.asitis.com/3/index.html
Chapter 5. Karma yoga--Action in Krsna Consciousness
http://www.asitis.com/5/index.html
Chapter 18. Conclusion--The Perfection of Renunciation
http://www.asitis.com/18/index.html
http://harekrishnainfo.blogspot.com

Though
A Krishna Devotee Automatically Gets Liberated (as free supplement)

Six types of Liberation

1. sayujya, merging with the body of the Lord (means merging into the Brahman effulgence of the Lord.) – SB-1.9.40
2. salokya, -residing on the same spiritual planet as the Lord (means that after material liberation one is promoted to the planet where the Supreme Personality of Godhead resides) -SB -2.7.49
3. sarupya, (means attaining a four-handed form exactly like that of the Lord.) – SB – 2.7.49
4. sarsti and (means attaining opulences like those of the Supreme Lord,) -SB – 2.7.49
5. samipya (means remaining an associate of the Supreme Personality of Godhead) -SB – 2.7.49
6. vimukti (Special mukti) -When after liberation one is situated on the platform of prema-bhakti, one is said to have achieved vimukti, “special mukti.” – SB -4.8.61, SB -10.9.20

How to attain peace?

apuryamanam acala-pratistham / samudram apah pravisanti yadvat
tadvat kama yam pravisanti sarve / sa santim apnoti na kama-kami (Bg 2.70)
A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires—that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still—can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires. (Bg 2.70)

vihaya kaman yah sarvan / pumams carati nihsprhah
nirmamo nirahankarah / sa santim adhigacchati (Bg 2.71)
A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego—he alone can attain real peace. (Bg 2.71)

Silence

Chapter 10. The Opulence of the Absolute
TEXT 38
maunam caivasmi guhyanam
Of secret things I am silence = > Greatest Secret is Silence,once it is revelead to another it does not remain Secret, To Quote - You Say to a person Donot Say to Another , that Peason says to another Do not Say to Another and this cycle continues
Silence means that one is always thinking of self-realization.The person in Krsna consciousness observes perfect silence in this sense.

Mind Nature and Control

Chapter 6. Sankhya-yoga
TEXT 34

cancalam hi manah krsna
pramathi balavad drdham
tasyaham nigraham manye
vayor iva su-duskaram

SYNONYMS

cancalam--flickering; hi--certainly; manah--mind; krsna--O Krsna; pramathi--agitating; bala-vat--strong; drdham--obstinate; tasya--its; aham--I; nigraham--subduing; manye--think; vayoh--of the wind; iva--like; su-duskaram--difficult.
TRANSLATION

For the mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong, O Krsna, and to subdue it is, it seems to me, more difficult than controlling the wind.

Chapter 6. Sankhya-yoga
TEXT 35

sri-bhagavan uvaca
asamsayam maha-baho
mano durnigraham calam
abhyasena tu kaunteya
vairagyena ca grhyate

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Personality of Godhead said; asamsayam--undoubtedly; maha-baho--O mighty-armed one; manah--mind; durnigraham--difficult to curb; calam--flickering; abhyasena--by practice; tu--but; kaunteya--O son of Kunti; vairagyena--by detachment; ca--also; grhyate--can be so controlled.
TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lord said: O mighty-armed son of Kunti, it is undoubtedly very difficult to curb the restless mind, but it is possible by constant practice and by detachment.

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