Shraddhatraya Vibhaaga Yoga - Shrimad Bhagavad Gita seventeenth Chaper

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita seventeenth Chaper – Shraddhatraya Vibhaaga Yoga

Arjuna: Hey krishna if someone don’t follow Shastra vidhi (way as told in vedic literature) and worship you with devotion as per their wish, then those people will be satvik, rajosik or thamasik?

Bhagawan shri Krishna: Human based on the body they get (as per the karma) will be satvik, rajosik and thamasik. Humans way of thinking will be based on this three gunas. People who are satva guna will worship gods, people who are in rajoguna will worship yaksha and rakshasas. People who are in thamoguna will worship spirits and devils.

People who worship me in a way which is not as per Shastra by harming themselves, to get their wishes come true, are people who have aasurik gunas.

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Three types of food will be liked by humans. Food which will increase the life span, which will give energy, which are not dry, which are sticky (example ghee), healthy will be liked by people who are satvik. This kind of food will keep the person pleasant and happy.

Foods which are extreme bitter, sour, salty, hot, cold, spicy, dry, which will create more thirstiness will be liked by people who are rajosik. This kind of food will cause disease and suffering.

Food which is cooked 3-4 hours back, which have lost its taste, which is spoiled, which is smelling bad, which is tasted by others, which is not clean will be liked by people who are thamasik

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Doing yagna and worship as per Shastra without expecting anything is satvik.

Doing yagna or worship expecting something is rajosik

Yagna or worship which is done not considering Shastra and without devotion is considered as thamasik.

Shraddhatraya Vibhaaga Yoga bhagavad gita

Worshipping gods, brahman’s (hear brahman means good people who are great devotees of god, it doesn’t have anything to do with caste), being pure, practicing brahmacharya, ahimsa and doing good things are considered as sharirika thapasya (thapasya done by body)

Talking truth, talking good and not hurting others by words is considered as Vak thapasya (thapasya done by voice)

Having pleasant manas, being good, being silent, self-control, having pure (good) thoughts is considered as manasik thapasya ( thapasya done by manas)

Above mentioned thapasyas, if done without expecting anything then it is considered as satvika thapasya

If thapasya is done for a desire or to showoff then it will be rajosik thapasya.

If it is done without understanding and by harming self and others then it is call thamasik.

Donation which is done as karthavya (duty) without expecting anything to a person in need is satvik

Donation which is done expecting something or given unwillingly (not by complete heart) is considered as rajosik

Donation given to a wrong person or a donation given by disrespecting the donation taker is considered thamasik

People who do tapasya, yagna, dhana (donation) without expecting anything will get moksha.

Arjuna rememeber yagna, thapasya, dhana and any other work done without shraddha ( concentration and selflessness) will not help the person in both  iham ( in the present life) and param (after life).

With this shrimad Bhagavad gita Seventeenth Chapter – Shraddhatraya vibhaaga Yoga has been completed

Purushottama Yoga - Shrimad Bhagavad Gita fifteenth Chapter

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita fifteenth Chapter – Purushottama Yoga

Bhagawan shri Krishna: Arjuna this universe is like inverted tree having roots in the upward direction and stems growing towards downward direction. This stems which are downwards represent the kamya karmas (works done to get something especially worldly things) of human world. This tree is called Ashwatha vruksham (samsara vruksham)

The more you get involved in the kamya karmas, the stems will grow and you will move away from roots. So one should find the roots and its starting point, by using non attachment as tool.

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Jiva (soul) will carry his experiences (or karmas) from one body to another. In this way jiva will be leaving a body (death) to get a new body (birth). In this new body he will again get manas, ears, tongue, nose, eyes, and skin. With them he will again start experiencing the world and keep doing karmas.

Normal people can’t understand how a jiva (soul) will leave the body and based on karma which body he is going to take. But people having jnana chakshu (divine eyes- rishis and great people will get this power because of their tapasya) can know it.

Sun who is giving light and heat to the universe, is getting energy from me. In the same way moon is also getting energy from me. All the planets are in their place and rotating properly because of my energy.

Purushottama Yoga Bhagavad Gita

I am the jataragni (digesting power) in every living being and digesting the food. I am there in the hrudayam (soul) of every human being. All the vedas are there to understand me. I am the one who has given the vedas.

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Jivas (souls) can be divided into two

1.Kshara (souls which are in a physical body and which keeps changing the body – like souls in human , animals etc)

2.Akshara (souls in spiritual world , where the body will not change and will not undergo any physical change)

And there is paramatma who is taking care of Kshara, Akshara and all the universes. Since I am different from kshara and Akshara, Vedas call me as Purushottama.

With this Shrimad Bhagavad Gita fifteenth chapter – Purushottama Yoga has been completed

Gunatraya vibhaaga yoga - Bhagavad Gita Fourteenth Chapter

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Fourteenth Chapter – Gunatraya vibhaaga yoga

Bhagawan shri Krishna: Arjuna I will tell you about the knowledge, with which many rishis are getting moksha

Prakruthi (nature) is made up of three gunas- satva, rajo and thamo guna. This 3 gunas will be binding the atma (soul) to a body.

Since satva guna is pleasant it will make a person enlightened , healthy, getting attached to world peace and make you interested in actual knowledge. It will make you satisfied and bind you slightly only to these things.

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Rajo guna will arise desire in you. So if rajo guna is there, it will make the person to do a lot of karmas to get worldly things/pleasures. And because of this karmas you will be bonded.

Thamo guna will make the person to be in moha (illusion) and make the person lazy, carelessness and sleepy. Because of this things person will be bonded.

Satva guna will make a person happy and peaceful. Rajo guna will make a person to do more work for things which are not permanent and bring ashanthi (not being peaceful)

Thamo guna will make a person to do bad and will bring danger.

Gunatraya vibhaaga yoga bhagavad gita

If a person dies when he is in satva guna he will reach higher worlds (like Swarga (heaven)). If a person dies when he is in Rajo guna he will be born again as human. If a person dies when he is in thamoguna he will be born either as human who will face lot of issues or as animal or tree etc.

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A person who understands and experiences that all three gunas are of prakruthi and he is atma (soul) and different from it(prakruthi), will reach me and will not be born again.

Arjuna: what are the characteristics of a person who will grow above all the three gunas? And how he will grow above all the three gunas?

Shir Krishna: A person who has grown above all the three gunas will understand that gunas are prakruthi. So he will be stable and see happiness& sadness, soil & gold, enemy & friend as same. He will give up all the karmas.

If a person have bhakthi towards me and who always think about me can easily grow above the three gunas

With this Shirmad Bhagavad Gita fourteenth chapter – gunatraya vibhaaga yoga has been completed

Bhakthi Yoga - Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Twelfth Chapter

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Twelfth Chapter – Bhakthi Yoga

Arjuna: hey Krishna, there are people who worship you in saguna rupa (considering god in some form) and Nirguna rupa (seeing god in everything without any form). In this 2 types of people who are best?

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Bhagawan shri Krishna: people who keep their whole concentration on me and worship me with complete devotion are best, in whatever form (saguna or nirguna) they worship. For the people who worship me as nirguna rupa, it will be very difficult to control manas. Reaching me by worshipping in nirguna rupa is difficult.

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Arjuna keep your manas and buddi in me, then for sure you will reach me. If you can’t keep your manas and buddi constantly in me, then try to reach me by abyasa yoga (like doing japa, tapasya….). If you can’t do abyasa yoga, involve yourself in the karmas belonging to me (like doing good working in the name of god, or doing Pooja or works related to temples etc). If you are so weak that you can’t do karma’s belonging to me, then do sharanagathi (completely surrendering) to me and offer the karma which you do for yourself and give up the karma phala. By sacrificing the karma phala, you will get peace.

Bhakthi Yoga Bhagavad Gita

A person who is always satisfied, who has controlled his manas, who is always calm, and who has offered his manas and buddi to me are close to me”.

With this shrimad Bhagavad Gita twelfth chapter Bhakthi Yoga has completed.

Vibhuti Yoga - Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Tenth Chapter

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Tenth chapter – Vibhuti Yoga

Bhagawan shri krishna: Even gods and rishis  don’t know about my origin, because I don’t have birth and death. People who get to know me as the one, who don’t have start and end and as the ruler of the universes will get rid of all his papa’s (Sins). I will give the knowledge of how to reach me, to the people who worship me with devotion

Arjuna: How can a person reach you by always thinking about you. In what all forms of you we should meditate? Tell me about your greatness and vibhuti (Incarnation of power)

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Bhagawan shri Krishna: I will tell you some of my important vibhuti’s. I am Vishnu, I am Shiva, I am the sun, moon, vedas, energy in living beings, kubera, ocean, kumaraswamy, omkar, indra, air, ganga, Kalam(time), ……… I am there in everything. There is no limit for my Vibhuti. I have told only very few.

Vibhuti Yoga Shrimad Bhagavad Gita

Arjuna why to mention all this, entire universes are taken care by only 1 percent of me

With this Bhagavad Gita chapter ten – Vibhuti Yoga has been completed

Jnana Vignana Yoga - Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Seventh Chapter

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita seventh chapter – Jnana Vignanan Yoga 

Bhagawan shri Krishna: I will tell you about the knowledge, after knowing which there is no need to know anything else .

Out of 1000’s of people there will be 1 who will be trying to get moksha. Out of those people who are trying to get moksha, there will be very few people who will understand me as I am.

One nature (form) of mine is divided into 8 – earth, water, fire, air, sky, manas (thinking power/ brain), buddhi (wisdom of differentiating bad & good and choosing to do good things), ahankar (attitude)

There is one more nature (form) which is greater and different than previous nature (form). It is the soul.

All the living beings are born because of this 2 natures. I am responsible for creation and destruction of nature. There is nothing greater than me.

Jnana Vignana Yoga Bhagavad Gita

Arjuna, I am the light in moon & sun, I am the omkar in Vedas, I am the heat in fire, I am the life in all the human beings.

All the thamasik, rajas and satvik thoughts will come because of me. But remember I am not in them. These thought create illusion (Maya) because of which the entire world (living beings) will not be able to recognize me, who is different and beyond this illusion. It’s almost impossible to come out of this Maya (illusion). But people who believe and worship me can come out of this Maya.

After many janmas (life’s) human will get jnana (actual knowledge), that I am everything and starts worshiping me. This kind of people are very less.

Since I will be covered by yoga Maya all can’t see me. World (people) can’t understand that I am the one who doesn’t have start and end.

I know people of past, present and future. But no one knows about me.

People who understand me, will keep their manas in control and keep remembering me every movement.

with this bhagavad gita seventh chapter – Jnana Vignana Yoga has completed

Atma Yoga - Shrimad bhagavad Gita sixth chapter

Shirmad Bhagavad Gita Sixth chapter – Atma Yoga 

Bhagavan shri Krishna: karma sanyasi is the one who do the karma (duty) without any expectations or karmaphala (result). One who can’t give up his expectations and wishes can never become a yogi.

One should improve himself. A controlled mind (manas) is like a friend and uncontrolled mind is like an enemy.  (Below are the steps given by bhagavan shri Krishna to control mind)

One should place a cloth or a mat in a neat place and should sit on it. Then he should first relax. He should sit in such a way that his neck, head and backbone should be straight. Then he should look at the tip of the nose and then he should meditate on me (god).

A person who eats more or less, who works more or less, who sleep more or less can’t practice dhyanam (meditation).

One should control his thoughts by meditation and should keep his manas in athma.

When manas (thoughts) which is not constant moves here and there we should get it back to our athma.

The person who is able to find me in all human beings and all human beings in me is always close to me.

Arjuna: Krishna I think it’s difficult to practice athma yoga with this manas which is not constant.

Mind is very fickle. As it is very difficult to control a strong wind in the same way it is very difficult to control manas.

atma yoga bhagavad gita

Shri Krishna: There is no doubt in this. It is very difficult to control manas. But with practice, vairagya and self -discipline it is possible to control manas.

Arjuna: Krishna what will happen to a person who try to achieve this but unable to achieve and to a person who   achieved it and unable to stay in that stage. Will he be deprived of the both enjoyments in this world and the yoga as well?

Bhagawan shri Krishna: Arjuna nothing goes wrong for a person who tries to do good.

A person who tried but unable to achieve yoga will go to punyalokas (better world) stay there for many years and then will be born again as a human to very good parents and in good family. Then he will get back the knowledge which he has achieved in previous life. He will start his journey towards yoga from the point where he has stopped earlier.

Of all the yogis person who fill his manas with me, is the best 

With this bhagavad gita sixth chapter Atma yoga has been completed

Sanyasa Yoga - Bhagavad Gita Fifth Chapter

Bhagavad Gita fifth chapter – Sanyasa Yoga

Arjuna: Krishna once you are saying that giving up karma is good and on the other side you are saying karma yoga (doing work without expectations) is good. Please let me know which is the best in both

Bhagavan Shri Krishna: Karma sanyasa (giving up), karma yoga both will take you to the same place. But in this both,  karma yoga is better than karma sanyasa.

One who does not hate, who does not have desire is the nitya sanyasi (perfect/continuous sanyasi). only fools will say that sankya yoga and karma yoga are different. If one is practiced perfectly result of both will be achieved (received)

karma sanyasa yoga bhagavad gita

A yogi who has got the true knowledge will consider that breathing, smelling, seeing etc are done by indriyas (sense organs) but not by him.

Great people will consider an educated person, an uneducated person, cow, elephant etc. as equal.

A yogi should not think about happiness which has start and end.(which are not ever lasting)

A rishi who’s soul is without impurities, who has control over his thoughts and who pray for the good of all will reach Brahma Nirvana stage.

One who has understood me as the receiver of all yagnas, lord of all the worlds and as well-wisher of everyone will get permanent peace”

With this bhagavad gita chapter five – sanyasa yoga has been completed

Jnana Yoga - Shrimad Bhagavad Gita fourth Chapter

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita fourth chapter – Jnana Yoga  

Bhagavan Shri Krishna: I have earlier told this karma yoga to sun god, from sun god this knowledge of karma yoga was learned by many. But with time, the knowledge of karma yoga was forgotten. So I am telling that sanatana (very old and precious) yoga to you.

Arjuna: Sun god is millions of years elder than you how is it possible that you have taught him karma yoga?

Shri Krishna : you and me have already spent many janmas (life’s). But I remember all those janmas but you don’t remember it.

Arjuna! Whenever there is a problem to dharma and when adharma becomes more, to protect the good people, to eradicate the bad people and to establish dharma, I will be born in every yuga. Who all understands the meaning of my janmas (life) and karmas(works) will not born again(will get moksha). Many great people who gave away affection, fear, anger and kept meditating about me has reached me because of jnana tapasya.

jnana yoga bhagavad gita

Arjuna I will be blessing people in the form they pray me. One who doesn’t keep attachment with karma phala (result) who is always satisfied, who is not dependent on anything and keeps doing the duty is considered as a person who has not done any karma. Controlling the indriyas, prana and understanding brahma tatva (oneness or actual knowledge) is like doing yagna.

Arjuna how fire can burn wood into ashes, in the same way jnana can burn all karmas. One who doesn’t have jnana, concentration and who is always confused will be destroyed. A confused person will not have peace in this life and even after life. One should come out of the confusion with Jnana (actual knowledge).

So Arjuna remove the confusion which is born from ignorance with help of Jnana.

With this Jnana Yoga – fourth chapter of bhagavad gita has been completed

shrimad bhagavad gita - Introduction/Importance

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita – Introduction/Importance

Bhagavad Gita means which is said by bhagavan (god) himself. Bhagavad Gita is also known as Gitopanishad as it is the essence of vedic knowledge and the most important Upanishad in vedic literature. Bhagavat Gita is a part of Mahabharata. It was told by bhagavan Shri Krishna to his devotee Arjuna, before the start of Kurukshetra war. Bhagavat Gita consists of 18 chapters and 700 slokas.

Krishna arjuna bhagavad gita importance

Bhagavad Gita starts with Arjuna vishada yoga and ends with moksha-sanyasa yoga. Every human starts his life with crying (after a kid is born first thing he do is crying) and moksha being the ultimate goal where he has to reach.

So Arjuna vishada yoga represents the birth of a human and moksha yoga represents the ultimate goal one should reach. So 18 chapters in Bhagavat Gita represents the 18 steps a human should climb to reach his ultimate goal,moksha.

Being a human we are supposed to reach the ultimate goal moksha and Bhagavat Gita is the guide which teaches us how to reach that goal. So reading and most importantly following Gita is must for every human.

List of 18 chapters in Bhagavad Gita (chapter names)

1. Arjuna vishada Yoga
2. Sankhya Yoga
3. Karma Yoga
4. Jnana Yoga
5. Sanyasa Yoga
6. Atma Yoga
7. Jnana Vigyana Yoga
8. Akshara para brahma Yoga
9. Raja Yoga
10. Vibhuti Yoga
11. Vishwarupa pradarshana Yoga
12. Bhakthi Yoga
13. Kshetra Kshetragna Vibhaaga Yoga
14. Gunatraya Vibhaaga Yoga
15. Purushottama Yoga
16. Daiva asura Sampad Vibhaaga Yoga
17. Shraddha Traya Vibhaaga Yoga
18. Moksha Sanyasa Yoga

So friends read, understand and follow all this 18 yogas told by bhagawan shri krishna which will for sure help you in getting Moksha. Above all chapters of Bhagavat Gita are explained in an easy and short form for easy understanding of everyone in next posts. Certainly it will help you in understanding the Bhagavad gita

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Jai Shri Krishna