*Need of BHAGAVAD-GITA*
*The Bhagavad Gita As Never Before* for three very reasons:
*Your guide to Living Forever*
We are all living under the delusion that death is inevitable; that every person must grow old and die, and immortality is a myth. Contrary to this general belief, Krishna and Jesus both say that man can be free from death and live forever in eternal youthfulness.
*You Are God* is the only books that bring forth the true meaning of the words of these prophets and say that it is possible to become free from old age and death and attain immortality. The book unravels the secret in the words of God and place before the reader the age-old wisdom that will liberate mankind. It shows the way to God, that is, to the highest wisdom and eternal fulfillment.
*Your only source to know yourself*
You may have acquired entire knowledge of this world and even of the whole yourself? Do you have knowledge of your inner self? Do you have answer to the eternal question: Who am I?
You need to discover yourself to find eternal happiness which is the most elusive thing in the world. This is possible only through the wisdom which is elucidated in *You Are God*.
For the first time, here is a book that provides you self-knowledge and reveals that man is God or ‘you’ are God.
*You Are God* unfolds the words of Krishna and Jesus that will allow you to attain self-realisation that you are God. It will help you to be free from stress and disease and be happy forever and attain immortality.
*Your way to fulfillment*
In this world, our desires always exceed our achievements, thereby leaving us with a sense of unfulfilment and frustration. This is because we have not grasped the true meaning of the words of God. His knowledge has not been assimilated by us; we are unable to understand the path shown by the prophets. We have not understood the highest wisdom.
*You are God* is the treasure that explain the wisdom of God through the words of Krishna, Jesus and other prophets and help you fulfill all desires in order to lead a happy and peaceful life and attain immortality. This is the path of discovery of self and the highest wisdom of God.
*Gist of every chapter in Gita*
*Chapter 1*
Wrong thinking is the only problem in life.
*Chapter 2*
Right knowledge is the ultimate solution to all our problems.
*Chapter 3*
Selflessness is the only way to progress and prosperity.
*Chapter 4*
Every prayer can be an *act of prayer*.
*Chapter 5*
Renounce the ego of individuality and rejoice in the bliss of infinity.
*Chapter 6*
Connect the higher consciousness daily.
*Chapter 7*
*Live what you learn*.
*Chapter 8*
Never give up on yourself.
*Chapter 9*
Value your blessings.
*Chapter 10*
See divinity all around.
*Chapter 11*
Have enough surrender to see the truth as it is.
*Chapter 12*
Absorb your Mind and Heart in the *supreme lord*.
*Chaptet 13*
Detach from maya and attach to Divine.
*Chapter 14*
Live a lifestyle that matches your *vision*.
*Chapter 15*
Give priority to Divinity.
*Chapter 16*
Being good is a reward to itself.
*Chapter 17*
Choosing the right over the pleasant is a *sign of power*.
*Chapter 18*
Let go, let's move with the *union of God.*
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
[26/06 2:40 pm] Ramachandran: *Who Is God?*
He is the source of light in all luminous objects.
He is beyond the darkness of matter.
He is knowledge. He is the object of knowledge. He is the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone's heart.
Lord said
"I enter into each planet, and by my energy, they stay in orbit. I become the moon, and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables. "
[26/06 2:41 pm] Ramachandran: *Arrogance Only Grows*
Today, I got this desire, and tomorrow I will get that one; all these riches are mine, and soon I will have even more.
Already, I have killed these enemies, and soon I will kill the rest. I am the Lord, the enjoyer, successful, happy, and strong, noble, and rich, and famous. Who on earth is my equal?
[26/06 2:42 pm] Ramachandran: *Good Work Never Goes To Waste*
No one who does good work, will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.
[26/06 2:44 pm] Ramachandran: *Give The Pure Gift of Love*
A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.
[26/06 2:44 pm] Ramachandran: *Result is not our main moto.*
When we work for getting fruits or the result from a particular action, we can’t really be our best in it.
It also gives us a lot of worries about the result.
We may also feel disheartened if our task or action does not yield good outputs.
Therefore, just doing our work without really thinking about it’s result should be our motive.
[26/06 2:45 pm] Ramachandran: *Death is the only true*
This world is not immortal.
One who takes birth dies one day and that is the ultimate truth of this world.
Nothing exists permanently. One has to leave this world, even though he wishes not to. No magic can actually help a person to stay forever.
Everyone has their set life periods. They vanish after completing them. No matter how great one is or how power one posses, all have to die one day.
[26/06 2:46 pm] Ramachandran: *Progress and development are the rules of this universe.*
Things may not be the same, the way they used to be. Things and circumstances change.
We should neither expect people, nor surroundings, not even society to be same. They all change with time. We move ahead.
Universe forgets old things and moves forward, so do we. We should not stick on one point, this will make our existence much more problematic in this world.
[26/06 2:48 pm] Ramachandran: **Desires come and go.*
Desires come and go, but you should remain a dispassionate witness, simply watching and enjoying the show.
Everyone experiences, desires but one should not be moved by them. They should not bother a person.
People sometimes undertake really evil actions because of their desires. So one should not come under the chains of desires.
[26/06 2:50 pm] Ramachandran: *Thoughts about big or small, your or mine should be kept out.*
We should not think about how big or small can we really make things.
All this is materialistic and engages people in tensions and greedy activities.
It makes one profit oriented. Thinking about yours or mine also does the same.
All the life we make and collect things for ourselves. This really does n’t make a difference when we leave this world. We all are turned into ashes after death.
[26/06 3:26 pm] Ramachandran: _Your right is to work only, to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions; let not the fruit-of-action be your motive. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction._
*LET US TRY TO UNDERSTAND THIS GREAT VERSE IN A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE:*
Those who work expect to be rewarded for it. In simple human terms this is a universal expectation, and much work goes into computing the reward, or remuneration as it is nowadays called, both by those awarding it and by those receiving it. Most current disputes centre around this problem, and the definition of what is fair compensation for a specified input of labour.
There is a beautiful parable attributed to Jesus Christ. A farmer, or husbandman, as he is called, is recruiting labourers to work in his fields. From the morning people come to him for employment, and he fixes their wage for the day at one talent. He goes on recruiting workers, almost up to the closing time, fixing the same wage for all, which fact, however, the workers do not know. At the end of the day, when they are paid off, they are shocked and upset to find that those who were employed early in the morning are paid exactly the same as those who joined the workforce just before close of work.
Naturally they protest to the landlord that this is grossly unfair and against all concept of rewarding work. He merely replies that he had fixed the wage for each worker when he was employed, and the worker had agreed to it. That was all, as far as he was concerned. It may be concluded that if he chose to pay the same rate irrespective of how long a person worked, that was his own affair.
In this parable we see one concept of reward. The generosity of the husbandman is to be emphasized.
He rewards a person for agreeing to work, without being bothered about the quantity of work put in. In other words, the employer is rewarding the workers' willingness rather than the ability or quantum of service rendered to him. This may be considered to illustrate the problem of work and reward at one level.
Lord Krishna teaches that man has the right to work, but has no right over the fruits of such work. He teaches the correct approach as being one of renunciation of the fruits of labour and calls this karma yoga. It is of course a very difficult idea to accept. It is not merely an idea, it is an ideal.
*But if we think deeply over this, what is the conclusion that we can draw?*
Surely Shri Krishna does not deny us the right to exist, which is what his teaching would imply if man were to receive no reward for his work. It is implicit in one's existence that the means for such existence will be provided but one has to leave this to the Provider, and not waste time on calculating the reward that one should receive. The Provider knows what to give, and if man applies himself to the calculation of what he should get he is, by implication, questioning the knowledge, and more so the generosity, of the giver.
So the proper attitude for human beings is to work without thinking of the reward they will or should receive. This puts the question of work and reward at a higher level of human endeavour, by making man work in the confidence that his needs will be met fully and completely. *The mercenary attitude is done away with, and if this teaching is universally adopted, it will at one stroke do away with all meanness and corruption attendant on this problem.*
[26/06 3:56 pm] Ramachandran: *what is it that work really gives us?*
Is it merely a reward to be received slavishly from another person? Or is it something higher than this? To my mind, if Shri Krishna's teaching is correctly interpreted, what it really means is that *one thinks in terms of reward only so long as one thinks that he is working for another person,* and therefore the other should pay or reward the work done. Karma yoga teaching, properly understood, should mean that *one should not think he is working for another but for one's own self!*
If this idea comes, then who is to reward the worker? From where is the reward, if any, to come? *Surely the Self is the one to reward itself!*
When we study the results of work, divorced from any concept of reward, an *illuminating knowledge* dawns upon us. We find that what work really confers on us is the ability and power to undertake bigger, higher work. Whether it be in the physical or mental/intellectual fields of human aspiration and endeavour, this fact is absolutely true.
Every piece of work, undertaken and successfully completed, endows us with the ability and power to go up to the next higher level of work. Is this not a reward? Why then are we universally blind to this? It is because we have conditioned ourselves to thinking that reward must come from outside ourselves.
[26/06 3:59 pm] Ramachandran: *What happens to a physical worker who neglects his work?*
He loses the capacity to do his work efficiently and correctly. His muscles become flaccid, and continued idleness makes them ultimately atrophy. So a stage comes when the work has to be withheld from him.
This is the ultimate punishment, that work has to be denied to him.
*Who has punished him? The logical answer can only be that by non-performance of the duty entrusted to him, he has punished himself.* The same conclusion attends non-performance of duty at other levels too. *In all cases the worker loses his ability and power to work, and work is withheld.*
[26/06 4:03 pm] Ramachandran: *A great truth of the spiritual dimension is that power is given simultaneously when work is given.*
This analysis reveals that work alone can be the reward of work well done. By doing our work well, all that we can aspire to is for more, higher work and nothing more. But 'nothing more' is misleading, for, as work alone makes growth possible and therefore when work is given to us, it is not merely work that is given to us, but the possibility of infinite growth that is opened up to us.
The Bhagavad Gita once again gives us a clue to this important and *universal truth*, when yoga is defined as 'skill in action' or in other words, skilful performance of one's work.
*The true yoga, or sadhana as I have called it earlier, is therefore nothing but the right performance of work bestowed upon us. This is true yoga, or yogic sadhana at the highest level.*
This implies that there can be no yoga where such 'skill in action' is not developed. *Master once told me that all who participate in His work are really performing the work of Nature, that is, they are participating in Divine work.*
Here it is important to bear in mind that physical rewards, in material form, are things of which we can be deprived by men or circumstances. Power and abilities developed by us by right performance of our work are 'within' us, are non-material, and therefore remain ours forever.
We can never be deprived of them as long as we continue with the right performance of our duties. Such are the indestructible, undiminishable fruits of work properly done.
[26/06 4:07 pm] Ramachandran: Lesson 8
*When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.*
We consider meditation boring. Who can sit still with their eyes closed and without vile thoughts?
But we truly need to take out a few minutes from our busy schedules and sit in dhyana to attain inner peace. Whether it's a quiet corner of our cosy home, or just a secluded spit in office, closing your eyes and sitting in peace will give you immense peace of mind.
[26/06 4:09 pm] Ramachandran: Lesson 9
*There is neither this world, nor the world beyond. nor happiness for the one who doubts*.
Doubts create misunderstandings. They confuse you and fog your mind with unclear thoughts. They also bring indecisiveness and make you a coward.
For instance, if you’re in a relationship and if you have doubts about your partner’s loyalty and love then you will never be able to take your relationship further.
Love has no doubts. If it does, then it’s not love.
[26/06 4:11 pm] Ramachandran: Lesson 10
*We’re kept from our goal not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.*
'Dream big' is the message here. If you’re dreaming about buying a house, you can’t keep it on hold by dreaming about a motorcycle. Although small goals are important, forgetting your ultimate goal will only stunt your growth. Don’t settle for less, strive hard to achieve the bigger goals.
[26/06 4:12 pm] Ramachandran: Lesson 12
*A person can rise through the efforts of his own mind; or draw himself down, in the same manner. Because each person is his own friend or enemy.*
You’re your own best friend. If you have a problem, only you will have a solution to it, and not your friend. To find answers to your questions, you will have to look within. Seeking suggestions from ten different people who you call ‘friends’ is not going to help because they have ten solutions to one problem, whereas your solution is the ultimate answer. Believe in yourself.
*Conversation with God*
1. *Arjun* :- I can’t find free time. Life has become hectic.
**Krishna**:- Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you free.
2. *Arjun*:- Why has life become complicated now?
**Krishna **:- Stop analyzing life... It makes it complicated. Just live it.
3. *Arjun*:- Why are we then constantly unhappy?
**Krishna **:- Worrying has become your habit. That’s why you are not happy.
4. *Arjun*:- Why do good people always suffer?
**Krishna **:- Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don’t suffer.
With that experience their life becomes better, not bitter.
5. *Arjun*:- You mean to say such experience is useful?
**Krishna **:- Yes. In every term, Experience is a hard teacher. It gives the test first and the lessons later.
6. *Arjun*:- Because of so many problems, we don’t know where we are heading…
*Krishna*:- If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides the way.
7. *Arjun*:- Does failure hurt more than moving in the right direction?
**Krishna**:- Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you.
8. **Arjun **:- In tough times, how do you stay motivated?
*Krishna*:- Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.
9. *Arjun*:- What surprises you about people?
*Krishna*:- When they suffer they ask, "why me?" When they prosper, they never ask "Why me?"
10. *Arjun*:- How can I get the best out of life?
*Krishna*:- Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.
11. *Arjun*:- One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.
**Krishna**:- There are no unanswered prayers. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Life is a mystery to solve, not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.
Stay Blessed & Happy..!!
