177. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 15, Verses 7-9 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
5/21/20261 hr 32 min
Swami Sarvapriyananda continues teaching verse 6 from the fifteenth chapter, entitled Purushottama Yoga, the Yoga of the Supreme Being, of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Bhagavad Gita, 'the Song of God,' unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta.
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Chapter 15, Verse 7
ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूत: सनातन: |
मन:षष्ठानीन्द्रियाणि प्रकृतिस्थानि कर्षति || 7||
mamaivānśho jīva-loke jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ
manaḥ-ṣhaṣhṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛiti-sthāni karṣhati
The embodied souls in this material world are My eternal fragmental parts. But bound by material nature, they are struggling with the six senses including the mind.
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Chapter 15, Verse 8
शरीरं यदवाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वर: |
गृहीत्वैतानि संयाति वायुर्गन्धानिवाशयात् || 8||
śharīraṁ yad avāpnoti yach chāpy utkrāmatīśhvaraḥ
gṛihītvaitāni sanyāti vāyur gandhān ivāśhayāt
As the air carries fragrance from place to place, so does the embodied soul carry the mind and senses with it, when it leaves an old body and enters a new one.
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Chapter 15, Verse 9
श्रोत्रं चक्षु: स्पर्शनं च रसनं घ्राणमेव च |
अधिष्ठाय मनश्चायं विषयानुपसेवते || 9||
śhrotraṁ chakṣhuḥ sparśhanaṁ cha rasanaṁ ghrāṇam eva cha
adhiṣhṭhāya manaśh chāyaṁ viṣhayān upasevate
Using the sense perceptions of the ears, eyes, skin, tongue, and nose, which are grouped around the mind, the embodied soul savors the objects of the senses.
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Om Vasudeva Sutam Devam Kamasa Chanura Mardanam Devaki Paramanamdam Krishnam Vande Jagad Guru. So in the Bhagavad Gita, can you hear me at the back, at the back? Yes. The Bhagavad Gita, we are studying the fifteenth chapter, Purushottama Yoga. The sixth verse, a beautiful verse - "Na tad bhasayate suryo na shashanko na pavakah | Yad gatva na nivartante tam dhama paramam mama" We were discussing this last time. I don't know when the last time was, but anyway [laughing] this is the sixth verse of the fifteenth chapter. Very poetic verse. So the fifteenth chapter, if you recall, it starts by describing samsara, world, our lives, and it describes it as a tree, as the, um, great banyan tree, the great, um, uh, tree of samsara. And the tree is a little strange because its roots are up there, and that means they are transcendent, they are subtle, and its branches and leaves are down here, which means our real nature... Down here means this physical