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Spiritual Solutions to Material Problems. Krishna Connect Bhagavad Gita Podcast by Madhudvisa dasa, based on Bhagavad Gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
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The Power of the Disciplic Succession, Guru Parampara | Spiritual knowledge descends through the disciplic succession from Krishna. The representatives of the disciplic succession can not change anything, add anything or subtract anything. Otherwise the disciplic succession will be broken and their preaching will have no potency. Many times in the history this disciplic succession has been broken because the representatives of the disciplic succession did not correctly pass on the knowledge to their students. We can understand how perfect knowledge can be received. This information is given to us by Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the Bhagavad Gita, particularly in Chapter 4 Texts 1 and 2. The Blessed Lord said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku. (Bhagavad Gita 4.1) This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost. (Bhagavad Gita 4.2) These two verses describe the process by which this knowledge of Bhagavad Gita has come into our hands and that process is that Krishna originally spoke Bhagavad Gita at the beginning of time as we know it, at the creation of the universe the the sun god, Vivasvan. Vivasvan, by our calculation is very, very old. We can not even imagine the age of the sun god. This is an unbelievable amount of time. Vivasvan, the sun god then instructed the science of Bhagavad Gita to his sons and disciples. So Vivasvan heard the Bhagavad Gita from Krishna and then Vivasvan spoke the same Bhagavad Gita to his son Manu, the father of mankind and Manu in turn instructed it to Iksvaku. This is the history of Bhagavad Gita. Originally Krishna spoke Bhagavad Gita to Vivasvan the sun god, and that was such a long time ago that we cannot even imagine. Vivasvan then spoke the Bhagavad Gita to his son Manu who is the father of mankind and then in turn Manu spoke that same Bhagavad Gita to Iksvaku who 2,500,000 years ago was the king of this earth planet. We can understand then that Bhagavad Gita has been present in human society for at least 2,500,000 years from the time when Manu instructed it to his son Iksvaku who was then the king of this whole planet. Unfortunately after some time the knowledge of Bhagavad Gita became lost. This is the nature of the material world. Everything we find in this material world goes through different stages. It is created, it exists for some time, it produces some by-products, it dwindles and then it vanishes. This is the power of time, time is very, very powerful and time wears away everything. Even if some very perfect spiritual knowledge is established at some point in time then, because of the destructive nature of time, in time this knowledge will be misunderstood, it will be misrepresented by the various generations. This knowledge of Krishna consciousness that Krishna has given us in the Bhagavad Gita is very delicate knowledge. This knowledge is only potent, it only acts if it is received in the pure disciplic succession and that disciplic succession can be very easily broken. This means that the preachers of Bhagavad Gita have an incredibly great responsibility. As soon as we speak anything, supposedly on Bhagavad Gita which is not simply knowledge that we have heard in the disciplic succession then we have broken the disciplic succession. The responsibility of the reciter of the Bhagavad Gita is to hear the perfect knowledge from his bona fide spiritual master and simply to repeat that knowledge to the people he is speaking to. He has no authorization to present his own opinion or to add anything new or to subtract anything that was originally in the message as it was presented by Krishna to the sun god Vivasvan , as Vivasvan presented that same message to his son | 2/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bhagavad Gita Podcast Chapter 2 Texts 1-38 | This edition of the Krishna Connect podcast is the first part of the second chapter of Bhagavad Gita As It Is. This chapter starts with Arjuna bewildered after seeing all his friends and family members on the battlefield of Kuruksetra ready to fight. Arjuna has decided not to fight and is considering leaving the battlefield and taking up the begging profession, rather than doing his duty and fighting this religious war. It is in this chapter that Arjuna realizes he is bewlidered an that the only way his bewilderment can be solved is with the help of his friend Krishna. He surrenders to Krishna and accepts Krishna as his spiritual master. This second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita is the summary of the whole book. | 1/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bhagavad Gita Podcast Chapter 1 | This edition of the Krishna Connect podcast is the first chapter of Bhagavad Gita As It Is. In this chapter the scene for the whole Gita is set. It starts on the battlefield of Kuruksetra. There two armies are arranged ready to fight. One side, the Pandavas, is lead by Arjuna who has as his chariot drive, Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the other side is the Kurus. It is a family battle. Arjuna asks Krishna to bring his chariot into the middle of the battlefield so he can see both armies and who was there on both sides ready to fight. When Arjuna saw that on both sides so many friends and family members were there he became bewildered and told Krishna that even if they were victorious in this battle still there lives would not be worth living because so many of their friends and family members will be killed in this fight. So Arjuna declares to Krsihna, "I shall not fight." The remaining 17 chapters of the Bhagavad Gita are questions by Arjuna and answers by Krishna that cover all topics of philosophy and spiritual knowledge. In the end Arjuna decides to fight. Those details will be revealed in the future chapters. But here, in this podcast you can hear the introduction to Bhagavad Gita and understand how Arjuna became bewildered and declares, "Krishna, I shall not fight." | 1/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bhagavad Gita Podcast | Introduction to Bhagavad Gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhuapda. This morning I was reading Bhagavad Gita and I realized others may not have so much time to read it so I thought perhaps someone may appreciate it if I recorded it. So this is the first experimental podcast of me reading Bhagavad Gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhuapda. You can listen to this podcast here on at KrishnaConnect.com or you can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes with the following link: Or, if you do not have iTunes on your computer you can subscribe at FeedBurner with this link: | 1/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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