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Bhagavad Gita - January 25, 2008
Chapter 2, Verses: 28-32
Swami Yogatmananda

Vedanta Society of Providence

 

 

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II.28: O descendant of Bharata! All beings remain unmanifest in the beginning; they become manifest in the middle. After death they certainly become unamnifest. What lamentation can there be with regard to them?

II.29: Someone visualizes It as a wonder; and similarly indeed, someone else talks of It as a wonder; and someone elase hears of It as a wonder. And someone else, indeed does not realize IT even after hearing about It.

II. 30: O descendant of Bharata! This embodied Self existing in everyone's body can never be killed. Therfore, you ought not to grieve for all these beings.

II. 31: Even considering your own duty you should not waver, since there is nothing else better for a Kshatriya (warrior) than a righteous battle.

II.32: O son of Prtha! Happy are the Kshatriyas (warriors) who come across thiskind of battle, which presents itself unsought for and which is open gate to heaven.

 

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Summary of this lecture:


Like the waves on the ocean, all the forms appear and disappear; they are not there 'before' birth and 'after' death. What is seen in the middle is also continuously changing. Why should one take the appearing and disappearing of these to heart? The Real thing is the unchanging self; it has neither birth nor death. What a wonder is this Self! The greatest of all wonders! Unlike anything in the world and yet within everything. We do not easily accept the existence of the Self because it's unlike anything that we experience.

 

 

 

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