Svayam Bhagavan

While Phaedrus, the Bhagavad Gita, Epicurus’ Letters to Menoeceus, and the story of “The Priest Walchelin and the Hellequin’s Hunt” all offer slightly different theories on what happens after death, they all agree that the death of the body is inevitable. However, the texts fail to give explicit instruction on how mortals should best live their life so as to be best situated for existence after death. Identifying how the texts instruct people to live life in a way that’s meaningful despite its temporary

Paper Assignment 2 Prompt 1 When it comes to the subject of love and desire, it would seem that The Symposium and The Bhagavad Gita disagree as to whether those qualities are beneficial to achieving spirituality or detrimental. In the Symposium, Plato states that desire is part of the pathway to achieving spirituality. By contrast, the unnamed author of the Bhagavad Gita seems to state that desire is an obstacle in the pathway to achieving divinity. Their perspectives can seen through their texts

In the book Bhagavad Gita, Krishna teaches Arjuna how to reach the highest stage of spirituality, and ultimately the divine God. Krishna gives Arjuna a clear road map to follow so he can reach this goal. Yoga is the main tool to obtain spirituality and it takes a lot of hard work and true determination to do so. The main part of reaching spirituality is to depart this world and sense objects, and build strong morals. Upon giving up worldly desire, one cannot but seek the Devine and by seeking God

First step in gaining the supreme knowledge about the God is to understand oneself. First six chapters of the Bahgvad Gita deal with the objective of understanding true nature of the self. “Demystifying the Bhagvad Gita (Vol-I): Understanding the self” is based on first six chapters of the Bhagvad Gita to help readers understand this ancient wisdom with modern knowledge. This book is a sequel of “Demystifying the Bhagvad Gita (Vol-I): Understanding the Self”. We saw in the last chapter of volume-I

The duration of life in a material reality may be very long, but all living bodies in the material world are eventually subject to a thing of the past and have to again develop other bodies. This idea of one life coming after another, continuing an endless cycle of life; allows death to never exist. In the epic Bhagavad Gita by the scribe Veda Vyasa, the theme of reincarnation is portrayed by Lord Krishna, telling a young warrior named Arjuna, to not dwell on the physical nature of this world because

The quest towards developing the ideal human character is sought after in both the Bhagavad-Gita and Confucius’ The Analects. In the Bhagavad Gita, the concept of sacred duty is prevalent throughout the text, as the warrior-prince Arjuna faces a moral dilemma throughout the story. In Confucius’ The Analects, filial piety is a virtue which impacts an individual’s character in relation to the Confucian religion. Sacred duty within the Gita requires the protection of one’s dharma, which is defined as

The Bhagavad Gita and A Thousand and One Nights serve as a lesson for how to live and act in the world. A Thousand and One Nights employs parables to expound on the decadence of human nature and the Bhagavad Gita discusses how to live a spiritual life without complete withdrawal from society. In A Thousand and One Nights, the dualism between vengeance and mercy as told through Shahrazad’s stories teaches us about the complexity of life and need for empathy in an unjust world. By choosing to be vengeful

In this state, one feels a deep sense of connectedness with all forms of life around him/her, thus paving the way for compassion and cooperation. Sri Bhagavan said, “We believe that the Oneness Blessing will ultimately bring about oneness we are talking about. You no longer have the sense of separation. People feel they belong to the same family. We believe that the world will become a global family. We

Description Lord Krishna is one of the most popular Gods in Hinduism. Krishna is considered the supreme deity, worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism in a variety of different perspectives. Krishna is recognized as the eighth incarnation (avatar) of Lord Vishnu, and one and the same as Lord Vishnu, one of the trimurti and as the supreme god in his own right. Krishna is the principal protagonist with Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita also known as the Song of God, which depicts the conversation between