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.

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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)

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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.

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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

Karma Yoga - Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Third Chapter

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Third chapter – Karma Yoga 

Arjuna after listening to sankya yoga

Arjuna: Krishna don’t confuse me with your words , is it better to give up everything and live like a saint or is it good to do karma? Tell me clearly what is good to me

Bhagavan Shri Krishna: Gyana yoga( giving up and knowing the actual knowledge) is for sankyas(saints) and karma yoga should be followed by yogis. Do your karma(duty).It is better to do your duty than not doing. If karma is not done life journey will not go further.

Considering the good that is going to happen to the world, it is always better to do karma. So it is better for you to do karma. Leave all your karma’s to me, put your chitta(consciousness) in atma(soul), leave desire, affection and do the war.

Who all perform karma as said above will get released from all the karma’s.

In everything (which can be seen,felt,heard……) there will be raga(affection) or dvesha(dislike or enemity). A karma yogi should not be bound by this. Ragadvesha are enemies to karma yogi.

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Arjuna: Krishna why a human is doing papa( evil things) as if someone is forcing them to do? What is the reason and who is responsible for it?

Shri Krishna: Papa(evil) will be born from kamam(desire) , krodh(unnecessary anger) , rajogun(attitude of doing anything for a need). These are the enemies for every person in this world.

Kama(desire) will cover the knowledge of a person as dust covers a mirror. Kama cannot be satisfied. Kama will cover the gyana(knowledge) and with the help of indriyas(sense organs) will lead the person in to moha(illusion).

Indriyas are powerful, manas(thinking power/will….) is more powerful than indriyas, buddhi(power of differentiating good and bad) is more powerful than manas and atma(soul) is more powerful than buddhi. So with the help of atma(soul) control your indriyas and kill kama(desire).

With this third chapter of bhagavad gita – Karma yoga has been completed

Sankya Yoga -Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Second Chapter

Bhagavad Gita Second chapter – Sankya Yoga 

Bhagawan Shri Krishna has seen Arjuna, who is crying 

Bhagawan Krishna: A wise person is not supposed to think like this. Remove this weakness from your heart and stand up.

Arjuna: How can I fight with the respectable persons like Bhishma and Drona?  I am unable to understand what is dharma and what is adharma. I am your sishya ( student) so please teach me.

Bhagawan Krishna: You are thinking about the things which you are not supposed to think. A wise person will not think about the people whether alive or dead

How a person experiences balyam(child age), yavanam(teenage), vruddhapyam(old age). Changing of body also happens in the same way. Means after death, soul will take a new body. Soul cannot be destroyed by anyone.

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Sensations which are caused by indriyas are the reason for happiness and sadness. One should bare them. So Arjuna get up and do the war. How a person changes his clothes when they become dirty, in the same way soul will change the body.

A person who is struck in the cage of luxuries will never get the gyan( real knowledge).

You have the right to do the karma, but you don’t have the right on the fruits of karma. Don’t become the reason for fruits of karma and at the same time don’t stop doing karmas. Be in a stable state and leave the attachment. See both the good and bad results in the same way.

Do your work but don’t get attachment with the work or result. Become sthithapragna by seeing everything as equal.

Arjuna: what are the qualities of sthithapragna?

Bhagawan Shri Krishna: one who will not be sad in bad times and who will not be excited by luxuries , one who has given up affections, fear, anger is called sthithapragna.

 If someone think about things (good, bad or anything universe) then slowly it will develop relation. Because of relation kamam(desire) and then anger will be born.

Because of anger you will experience a kind of shock which leads to destruction of bhuddi (thinking power to differentiate good and bad) which leads to the complete destruction of the person.

One who will leave affection and enmity and keep his mind in control will enjoy the peace even though he is in disturbed world.

Arjuna vishada yoga - Bhagavad gita chapter one

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita First chapter – Arjuna Vishada Yoga

Bhagavad Gita starts with Arjuna vishada yoga. It starts with Drutharashtra(father of kauravas) asking  Sanjaya( who got a boon from Vedavyas to see kurukshetra war from any place) what pandavas and kauravas doing in kurukshetra(war field). Sanjaya starts explaining both armies. Everyone in the war field has blown their shank and are ready to start the war.

Then Arjuna asked lord Krishna to take the chariot in between the two armies so that he can view kaurava army. Lord Krishna has taken the chariot in between both the armies and stopped the chariot and asked Arjuna to look at Bhishma , Dronacharya and other important kings.

arjuna vishada yoga bhagavad gita

Then Arjuna saw his grandfather (Bhishma) , guru(Dronacharya),brothers , friends, sons(brother sons),relatives standing in kaurava army. Seeing all this people, Arjuna was struck by grief and started speaking to lord Krishna.

Arjuna : Hey Krishna after seeing my people Iam unable to think, my mouth is getting dried, I am unable to stand, my gandiva(bow) is slipping from my hand.

Keshava(lord Krishna) Iam unable to understand what good is going to happen by killing our own people.

Hey Krishna, I don’t want victory, I don’t want kingdom, I don’t want luxuries. There is no use in enjoying these things after killing our own people.

We have committed a big sin by getting ready to kill our own people for the sake of kingdom. I will leave my weapon, even if the kauravas kill me it will do good to me.

After saying all this Arjuna fell down in his seat and started crying. With this Arjuna  vishada yoga has been completed.