What is said in the bonafide scriptures like Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagvatam about action and its effects, soul, miseries, and devotion?
What happens after death? Is there any life after death? What are the different stages that the soul has to through after death?
How to get out of the cycle of action-inaction-reaction according to [...]
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Questions on soul & life after death
Gitaaonline Answers – Does your Karma “get” you?
One of our readers has put forth a very interesting and thought provoking question. This instantly strikes a cord since many of us can relate to this and other similar circumstances where-in we wonder whether a particular happening is on account of one’s Karma.
I would like to hear the thoughts of our learned readers – [...]
A Way to Live – Guruji’s Gita in Practice-2&3
An Analysis of KARMA YOGA from Chapters 2 and 3
CHAPTER 2
2.47: Your right is to work, not in the results of that work; Let them(fruits) not be the cause of your action. May you not be attached to inaction.
Purport: What you are doing right now, do it without your mind forever [...]
Discovering God in Work – Bhakti Yoga 10
In the last post, we discussed the need for constant practice. A question might arise in our minds. We have a family, wife / husband and so how is it possible to think of the Lord 24 hours? In such a circumstance, what do we do? The Lord says, “even if we cannot practice [...]
The Essence of Gita
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The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna. It is narrated in the bhiishhma parva of the Maha Bharata and was subsequently recorded by Vyasa for the benefit of humanity. It comprises 701 verses in 18 chapters. The Mahabharata has given us many great values, but the two most [...]
Ch.4: Renunciation of Action in Knowledge
Sanksrit Verses
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In the beginning of this chapter the Lord tells Arjuna that this knowledge was first imparted by him to suryadeva (Vivaswan),who then passed it on manu, ikshvaaku, then the kings and so on. So this knowledge is parampara praptham. But in the course of time, it was lost to the world. [...]
Ch.3:Communion through Action
Sanskrit Verses
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Hearing the discourse on the path of knowledge, Arjuna’s confusion only increases. Arjuna wants to know, how it is acceptable for him to fight the war, when the Lord has described renunciation of action as the means to God realization. The rest of the chapter is Lord Krishna’s answer to this. [...]
