Hare Krishna Edwin 🙏. It's so lovely that you share your wisdom on such important topics and in such a way that is easy to understand and very thorough. I've been watching your video's and the lectures on Rutgers page for the past 4 years and its changed my life. With love from South Africa. 🙏
Thank you SO MUCH for making this wonderful content available. This has been the most useful insight into the Gita since I read Stephen Mitchell's Gita, which originally bridged the gap for my Western Mind. The comparison with and reference to Patanjali is also extremely useful. Bless you. 🙏
action without any fruit. awareness, attention without any goal to reach. the process/action is end itself. Once you are in action, there is no self at all, there is awareness not to achive anything, not nirvana, not mukti, not salvation, not freedom from sins. our seeking of freedom from sins is itself ego, self (Ashtavakra Gita) This talk is related to religious goals, pursuit, nirvana, mukti, salvation, nothing to do with practical world, but it can be applied there. Like, making things.
@@priortokaraew7569 According to Ramakrishna, "Sattva begets bhakti. Even bhakti has three aspects: sattva, rajas, and tamas. The sattva of bhakti is pure sattva. When a devotee acquires it he doesn't direct his mind to anything but God. He pays only as much attention to his body as is absolutely necessary for its protection. But a paramahamsa is beyond the three gunas. Though they exist in him, yet they are practically non-existent. Like a child, he is not under the control of any of the gunas. That is why paramahamsas allow small children to come near them- in order to assume their nature. Paramahamsas may not lay things up; but this rule does not apply to householders. They must provide for their families." - Sri Ramakrishna
How is there free will when everything is pre ordained? If your birth is pre planned, your death is pre planned, what makes one think everything in the middle isnt too😂
Hare Krishna Edwin 🙏. It's so lovely that you share your wisdom on such important topics and in such a way that is easy to understand and very thorough. I've been watching your video's and the lectures on Rutgers page for the past 4 years and its changed my life. With love from South Africa. 🙏
thank you for these important videos that you publish.
💯❤️thank you sir ❤️
Thank you SO MUCH for making this wonderful content available. This has been the most useful insight into the Gita since I read Stephen Mitchell's Gita, which originally bridged the gap for my Western Mind. The comparison with and reference to Patanjali is also extremely useful. Bless you. 🙏
Thank you! Seems like all the religions are teaching the same fundamentally.
action without any fruit. awareness, attention without any goal to reach. the process/action is end itself. Once you are in action, there is no self at all, there is awareness not to achive anything, not nirvana, not mukti, not salvation, not freedom from sins.
our seeking of freedom from sins is itself ego, self (Ashtavakra Gita)
This talk is related to religious goals, pursuit, nirvana, mukti, salvation, nothing to do with practical world, but it can be applied there. Like, making things.
Other 2 lectures on Bhagavad Gita is private. Why Sir?
Was it Ramana Maharshi who said Bhakti is the mother of Jnana?
and what is the mother of Bhakti?
@@priortokaraew7569 Perhaps Ramana had an answer to that as well. I have yet to read his works.
@@priortokaraew7569 According to Ramakrishna, "Sattva begets bhakti. Even bhakti has three aspects: sattva, rajas, and tamas. The sattva of bhakti is pure sattva. When a devotee acquires it he doesn't direct his mind to anything but God. He pays only as much attention to his body as is absolutely necessary for its protection. But a paramahamsa is beyond the three gunas. Though they exist in him, yet they are practically non-existent. Like a child, he is not under the control of any of the gunas. That is why paramahamsas allow small children to come near them- in order to assume their nature. Paramahamsas may not lay things up; but this rule does not apply to householders. They must provide for their families."
- Sri Ramakrishna
How is there free will when everything is pre ordained? If your birth is pre planned, your death is pre planned, what makes one think everything in the middle isnt too😂
@@elaibuchanan6319 Good question! I personally think we'll never know, only bhagavān can answer that question. We're mere toys in his play.
- Mayank
@@EdwinBryantOfficial never a truer word. Thanks for the reply.