Extracts from Bhagavad Geeta :

These extracts are collected from the Book “ The Holy Geeta – commentaries by Sri. Chinmayananda”. The page numbers e.g, p161 etc indicate the same pages in which those passages or explanations appear.

Kauravas : 100 in Number; Ungodly forces of negative tendencies in man’s bosom
Mind is born blinded to Truthwedded to an Intellect-has assumed blindness ( like Gandhari & Dhritharashtra)

Geeta = 701 stanzas

Maharathi = in charge of 11000 archers

Total effectiveness of 5 > & better equipped than kauravas.

Twice born = Once from mother’s womb. 2nd time thro’ study & contemplation as a cultured Hindu, called Brahmana.

Conch = War bugle to send forth roaring confidence into the hearts.

Hrishi + kesa = Lord of the senses.

p.25 Pritha = another name of Kunthi

Sin = mistake committed by misunderstood ego.

p.28. No element can destroy another element subtler than itself. I.e. Atma can not be killed

p.160 Man will fall in 2 paths .

1) Active - Path of Action = Karma Yoga, selfless activity gives mind a chance to exhaust all vasanas. 2. Contemplative - Path of Knowledge = Jnana Yoga

Thus purified mind gains such a flight that it can steadily soar into the subtlest realms of meditation and finally come to gain the Experience of Transcendental Absolute.

Ignorance functions in Intellect & expresses itself as Desires.
Desires function in mental zone & expresses itself as Thoughts.
Thoughts function in Outer world & expresses itself as Actions.

Supreme is beyond every thing.

All activities other than Yagna activities bring Vasana bondages & the individual’s ultimate Development & strength will be arrested.

For men of Wisdom, all pairs of opposites are to the mind only not him.

The discriminative capacity in us gets screened off by insatiable desires.

96. The Westerners inspiration is an accidental and mysterious happening over which mortal has no control at all. According to Rishis, inspired Living is the real godly destiny of man when he lives in perfect unison with the self in him. Ordinary success beam into inspired Achievement.

p-91. Equanimity in all mental challenges is a factor that ensure true success in all . i.e. keep the mind open for its flow; it should not get clouded by ego sense.

p-100. Hindu religion is 5000 years B.C i.e. 7000 years from now.

Mental impressions can not themselves bring any disaster or or reward unless they are connected with the external world i.e., thro’ the needle point of our ego centre.

p-101. Ritualistic acts: If unfinished – then no fruits; if done not fruitfully--à Sin.( like wring medicine)
But, these 2 dangers are not in Karma yoga .

p-104. Ritualistic portion of Vedas is the means and the Vedantic portion of Vedas is the end. (i.e., Realization thro’ meditation is the end).

Avoid inward dissipation of or wastage of mental energy. Bring the Best in you and forget yourself in the activity. Don’t dream of fruits.

Wrong imagination, False expectation, Fruits of action, Anxieties for results, fears of future calamities- are all nerve racking mistakes belong to ego.

When the Thought flow is in a state of flux or agitated , it is called mind; when it is single pointed, calm and serene in its own determination, it is called Intellect.

So, Buddhi Yoga means ‘ to be established in the devotion to the Intellect’ The objective mind working under the control of Subjective mind is called Buddhi Yoga.

Once the Intellect in us is purified thro’ the Art of steady work called devotion thro’ work it is possible to peep to Reality.

p-125.Intellect is contaminated by ignorance . Thro’ Right Knowledge it can become desire less.

Burning desire for sense objects; Blinding attachment with emotions and Jealous preference for one’s pet ideas.

Chariot has 5 horses = 5 senses
Exalted in pleasure and dejected in pain.
6 common things for all : Birth, Existence, growth, disease, decay, death.

Sankya = the logic of reasoning by which the true nature of Reality is comprehended.

Yoga sasthra, capacity to withdraw senses at Will from the fields of Objects is Pratyahara accomplished thro’ Pranayama.

Learn to live in self control and train to live among sense objects with the least attachment and aversion for them.
Quotient of Happiness = No.of desires fulfilled / No.of desires entertained.

Meditation is the path in which the ego learns to withdraw the false evaluation of itself.

Ignorance causes desires ; desires are seeds from which actions arise.

Evolution falls in 3 stages :
1. Desire prompted activity
2. Selfless dedicated activity
3. Quiet meditation

p-297. Karma yoga + meditation --à soon Self-Realization

Karma yoga accomplishes purification of Intellect ; so better state of Quietitude
Mind reflects the condition of Intellect ; so it can’t have disturbance, So, Tame & equanimous.

Karma yoga --à inward peace. So very easy to guide his sense organs and appetites. Therefore once yogin controlled his BMI he is fit for the highest meditation.

p-303. A doctor won’t operate his wife because of his attachment
Ego thrives in the BMI. With the end of ignorance ego also ends. Ego = Jiva

When the ego discovers the self it becomes the Self- Atma.

Only when we are in contact with the world of objects, we suffer the agitation in life otherwise object can not by itself bring any disturbances like waves can not do any harm to us if we are in the banks. Only when we are in the sea we will be tossed hither & thither.

Ch-2/58. In ach individual 5 distinct beams of same awareness or Conscious light protrude like antennae and give him complete Knowledge.

According to west ‘to control’ is to suppress. Suppressing is psychologically not healthy. But Vedic theory says it is not suppression. It is an inward blossoming, inner growth and Development by which one’s earlier fields of enjoyment thro’ senses drop out to make room for the perception of ample joys and more satisfying Bliss.

Attachment causes burning desire
Any obstruction to this desire shoos him to Anger
He forgets his sense of proportion relatively between things and beings.
He loses his discrimination capacity ( Buddhi) which leads to complete destruction.

Sobs, sighs and sorrows.

Joy created thro’ satisfaction of desires can never be complete.

Sanyasa = renouncing all desires and ego.

Study of scriptures under a master
Independent analysis of Vedantic truths + meditation à Self Development . To live this life of Tranquility is Jnana Tapas.

Path of Action : Activity to get detached from Desire, Fear and Anger.
Path of Love : by taking refuge in the Self.
Path of knowledge : discriminative analysis and constant attempts in the identification of the Self. ( Jnana Tapas.)

These 3 paths are the 3 techniques to perfect & purify our mind and to make it single pointed because there are 3 types of men. Some identify with Body, -- Mind, -- Intellect .

p-231. Car petrol drives to death or destination.

Ignorance of BMI splits into spectrum; Ego less Godman finds every thing as God.

p-340- To bring mind under control is similar to getting on a wild horse and riding. It is v.difficult. It is Yoga Arudha. Mounted steed of the mind.

p-341- Selfless activity is good for a beginner. Developed seeker needs more quietitude. First , work w/o self is the means and then work on the self is the means.

Yogarudha means inward state of a man who has not only withdrawn himseld from sense contacts and activities in the outer world but also dried up all sangkalpa disturbances in his own mind.

Meditation : Sitting single pointed ness is achieved by 1- subduing mental imagination and 2- controlling wild activities of the sense organs.

For what? For inner purification only. I.e., agitations in mind are its impurities.

p-361- Fisher woman can not sleep in a flower shop until a Fish basket is kept near her nose.i.e., Ego does not believe that there is an Existence Supreme.

p-344- An external source will constantly help a true seeker striving on his path but it is really healthy only when his Thought is complemented with sufficiently intense self efforts.

p-364- When one is steadfast in his physical and subtler life, he releases from himself a large qty of psychic vitality.

At the peak of meditation , the seeker comes to a perfect halt.

Concordant x Discordant

Sleep = Non-apprehension of reality ; Dream = Mis-apprehension of reality.

Desires are not unhealthy – they can not bring us sad; but disproportionate amount of clinging to our desires is the cancer of our mind which brings agonies in life. Ie., Longing after desires is bad.

The infinite Bliss transcends the senses ( anti indhriya ). The Bliss of self recognition is permissible only thro’ pure Intellect & not by the senses.

Once established, this Transcendental Bliss never departs from the seeker.

p-312- Detachment Yoga = Technique of withdrawing the mind from the objects by lifting it to planes of higher contemplation.

p-396- Sanyasa : 1) Renouncing all clinging attachments to objects of world.
2) Renouncing all lingering expectations for the fruits of actions.

p-415- types of Seekers :

Tapaswins, Jnanis, Upasana. Meditators

Tapaswins : Thoughtless & dull witted , physical self-denial
Gnanis : who read scriptures and remember their declarations.
Karmis : selfless work
Upasanas : who perform worship
Meditator : One who withdraws himself from his ownfalse identity with BMI thro’ contemplation upon the nature of the Self. This is the best.

Different types of meditators according to Objects of contemplation. Best is one who worships ME.
i.e., BMI merged in the Self and with Shraddha devotes himself in the Self is the Firm and steadfast meditator.

Four MahaVakyas taken from 4 Vedas:

1. Consciousness is Brahman
2. That Thou Art is Brahman ( Essence, Significance )
3. This Atman is Brahman
4. I am Brahman

World of Stimuli reaches us thro’ 5 senses
Point of focus of 5 sense organs is called Mind
Impulses received by Mind are classified and systematized into the knowledge of perception by Intellect – assimilation.

All the above 8 are lower nature.

Pure Consciousness is Higher Nature. It is a spiritual spark.

p-427 - Mind gets its support from the judgment of Intellect

Jagat = World of Objects + feelings + ideas that we Experience together is Jagat.
Similar to : Pearls in Thread; but Thread is not seen. Different forms of world in Spiritual Truth which is Supreme Self.

p-432- It is the Consciousness in us that expresses itself as an Intelligent individual – similar to Electricity in the Bulb.

Kama = Desire for what is absent
Raaga = Attachment = Affection for what already one has.

Infinite Thoughts and infinite ideas – classified in 3 moods of subtler Body. They are :
1. Sathwa 2. Raja 3. Thamas

I am not in them; but they are in ME. Super imposition of matter upon Spirit.
436- Post can only explain ‘ the ghost of your vision had risen from me alone as much as I alone lend to it its existence but I ( the Post ) am not in the Ghost.

p-441- If un-intelligently , I invoke the Truth to play thro’ my mind which is mal-adjusted with wrong tendencies, the spirit flowing thro’ such an instrument brings sorrows to myself and disturbances to others. It is similar to switching on the fan in Winter and complaining the Electricity.

7 / 16. Four types of men:

1. Men dissatisfied with even the best in life ( Artah) for total relief from spiritual distress.
2. Seekers of knowledge – to know my nature
3. Men who want to fulfill their desires.
4. Men who approach the Sanctum Sanctorum ( i.e. Gnani )

p-455 – every one is Divine incarnation to a degree.
Unactivity = Satwa
Activity = Rajas
Inactivity =Tamas
Agitations = Vikshepa
Vieling = Avarana

Seeker need not deny all sense objects and punish himself and persecute physical urges and biological needs. Strive rightly to gain true success.

Joys and sense objects are also glimpses of Spiritual Bliss- Brammananda.

Ch- / 29 Self-Realized man is proficient in all activities ( karma) He knows the working of the psychological forces i.e., AdiAtma.

Knowledge of world objects = Adibootha
Working sense organs, Mind & Intellect = Adi Daiva
Conditions of perception = physical, mental & intellectual = AdiYagna

p-354- Adi Daiva is the special faculty that presides over each apparatus of knowledge and acting in living creatures.

The presiding deities of sense organs of BMI are called devatas, i.e., faculty of vision is eyes, faculty of Audition is ears etc.

p-478- Upasana = Prayer and concentration
Unbroken flow of Thoughts = Meditation

p-482 – 1. Self is Ancient
2. Over ruler ie., mud in mud pots
3.minuter than atom = subtlest of the subtle
4. Nourisher of all = The strength of a canvas in a painting or screen in a cinema theatre.
5. Of Form inconceivable.

3 conditions for meditation :

1. Contrilling the senses
2. Confining the mind in the heart to arrest previous impressions from agitating
3. Heart = Conceptual center when Love, Kindness, Devotion, Surrender, Charity etc spring up.
Withdrawing all the Pranas : Withdrawing the Intellect from the identifications with the Lower.

Rebirth always suffers Disease decay and death.

Once Self is realized, the ego ends its march thro’ the thorny path of pain and finititude.

Karma = Ritualism
Upasana = meditation
Kalpa = Cycle of creation and dissolution
Acons = Yugas
Time = interval between 2difft experiences
One cycle = 365 days for Devas
Four Yugas = 1 cycle
1000 cycles = 1 day time for the Creator

Sathya Yuga = 1 728 000 years
Treta Yuga = 1 295 000 years
Dwapara Yuga = 854 000 years
Kali Yuga = 482 000 years

So, 4 yugas = 1 cycle

p-498- The actions and Thoughts of the past leave a distinct flavour upon BMI and the future Thoughts are directed by the previously mad Thought channel.

Violinist plays violin makes music – Music is manifest
When violin is kept – no music – ie., Music is Unmanifest

Changing world of Un-manifest must have 1 changeless substratum. Similar to Black board takes calculations, Science , Geography, History , Geometry etc. By evening, Black board alone remains- students leave.

Path of Moksha : No return ( No rebirth).
Path of samskara : Return i.e, Rebirth is there.

p-522- Sun reflects in the muddy pool or in a clear glass of water. It is similar to individual ego has limited BMI as against God Principle which is Absolute Brahman. Scoundral mind projects scoundrel; saintly mind projects saint. But behind both is the Absolute Consciousness .

Saint is also as helpless as scoundrel as Both are under the sway of Prakriti.

Cinema screen does not carry the rain / blood split or tears shed in film.

Infinite egos repeat their parts ordered by their vasanas gathered by them in the past. Similar to steam engine.

Sun illuminates Light in which murder or martyrdom can take place. In this process, neither the glory or the crime comes to Sun.Similarly pure Consciousness illumines the vasanas & lend the capacity to project.

Atmen illuminates Mind & Intellect and creates for the expression of vasanas of worldly objects. “ Nature while I preside gives birth to the world of things and beings”

Self = Purusha
Non-self = Prakriti

There are several factors for success :
1. Consistency of willing and thinking
2. Pouring out ourselves with singleness of purpose
3. Self control

Sun reflects on dull rocks and bright Jewels. The difference is not in the sun but in the object. Similarly Self-Realization depends on the Heart.

Mind, Intellect,Ego and Chit are 4 factors comprising the total inner instrument – 4 boys born out of the mind of the Creator.

7 seers or Rishis = 5 sense stimuli + Intellect+ ego


When there is an urge to express, he has to maintain a constant sankalpa which soon produces a channel of constant Thoughts creating a stuff for inner instrument. This bundle of Thoughts flowing continuously functions as Mind ,Intellect, ego and chit - 4 eternal boys of wisdom.

p-599- For one who meditates He gives Buddhi Yoga ( Right knowledge gained thro’ meditation up on infinite nature if Self.

Power of infinite awareness of Reality comes to Seeker in whom maturity of steady contemplation has come.

Transcendental Experience = Samadhi which is the fulfillment of Buddhi Yoga

A thing existing in the outer world may sometimes be veiled from our perception ( eye, ear etc). Searching Key in dark on a Table .Light is on. Now u got it.But Light has not created the Key.

The Self is un-veiled. Remove unfavourable conditions ( ie. papers books etc) by mastering Buddhi Yoga.

e.g. A Radium watch on a Table in dark covered by papers and books. When papers and books are removed, the watch is found from its own light.

p-603- Ancient Seers, Rishis: Narada, Asita, Devala & Vyasa.

p-604- Animals Heart is overflowing with faith and belief but its Intellect is starved and thirsty.

Method of meditation : 10 /21 onwards.

Adithyas = 12 Nos. Vishnu is the most important Adithya. ( 12 months)
Marut = Of the Winds I am Marichi, the chief deity of Storms
Vasava = King Indra
Creative destruction = Like flower must die to yield its place to Fruit. Fruits perish for the seeds to come out.

Kupera = Divine cashier, monstrous, ugly creation. 3 fotted fat, short , bellied, small head and protruded teeth.

8 Vasus : 8 seasons. 6 actual seasons + 2 of mind, viz- joy and sorrow.

Meru : 8000 miles peak from which the Spiritual knowledge flows.

Lord of Plant Jupitar = Brahaspathi is the Spiritual Teacher of all celestials.

Brighu : Chief of Rishis, who recites Manava Dharma Shastra wherein he is recognized as Manu’s son.
Aswatha Tree : Pipal tree = ( Arasa maram)

Gandharvas = Subtle entities who constitute celestial Choir who entertain devizas of Heaven with Art and Music.

Chitra ratha is the most brilliant.

Muni Kapila is a Great Thinker. He is the Author of Sankyan Philosophy. Geeta follows this.

13 Objects of Might like Uchisrvar (Winged Horse) , Airavatha ( White Elephant) , were obtained while churning milky ocean by Gods and demons for getting Necktar . These were presented to Indra, the King of Gods.

Of all weapons, I am the Thunderbolt ( Vajra) . Great seer Dadheechi offered his rib bone for the construction of secret weapon Vajra to annihilate a demon who was threatening to shatter the Peace of Heaven.

Kamadhenu : Early by-product of churning the milky ocean.

Manmadhan: 5 Flower tipped Arrows each meant to smoothen one sense organ for the fulfillment of all passionate urges that express themselves thro’ Sense organs.

Vasuki : Siva’s ring finger serpent. It volunteered to act as Rope while churning.

Sarpas : Single hooded
Nagas : Multi hooded
Sesha naga : 1000 headed . Bed for Vishnu
Varuna : Half Fish, half man. Ruler of oceans. Lord of Waters.
Pritiloka : World of manes where departed souls live
Aryama : Ruler of the world of Ancestors

p-629 – State.Jahnu drank the Ganges dry and later for the redemption of man, let her out to flow thro’ ears.

Conch = War Bugle calls man for duty
Discuss= Chakra – to end the genertion
Club = Gathai, Hammer to shape and discipline
Lotus = to rep peace, joy, auspiciousness and happiness.

p-676-Purusha : Body of City with 9 gates

p-680- 18000 Siddhas, perfect masters who are godly in their Wisdom are guiding the seeker in his goal.

Rudhras : Spirit of destruction
Adityas : sun
Vasus : Lords of seasons
Sadhyas : Spirits of skys- middle men to convey our prayers and bring fruitions to us.

Viswa devas = Lesse gods, inferior deities
Ushmapas = Heat drinkers
Gandharvas = Heavenly musicians
Yakshas, Ashwas, Ashwins, Maruts

Pitris: They come to functions dedicated to them and enjoy offerings made to them only so long as it is hot.

Rivers do not lose anything by falling into ocean. Sun—Rain – River – Ocean. Similarly Humanbeings.

p-691- A close and full understanding of any happening removes the fears from its threatening hood. Only when Intellect is doped with ignorance the happenings around him threaten him.

Trinity : Creator, Sustainer, Destroyer.
Observe analyse digest.

World destroying attitude : It is like destroying dilapidated bridges, buildings etc. Lord is merciful.



Why Arjuna had Fear against Kaurava forces?

Drona: Arjuna’s teacher taught Archery. He had special weapons.
Bhishma : Had Powerful celestial weapons – made Parasurama to lick the ground.
Jayaratha: invincible. His father in Tapas “ whoever causes my son’s head to drop down on
earth, his head shall too fall”.
Karna: had powerful missile given by Indra.


Entire world of things and Beings can be classified as : 1- Sat ; 2- Asat
Sat is manifest; Asat is Unmanifest.

Manifest: which can become objects of Experience – for organs of perception,
for the instruments of feeling,
for the Equipment of Thought .


Unmanifest is that which causes perception , feelings and Thoughts . These subtle causes are vasanas.

Post is abode of Ghost.

All pervading : like in all chocolates, sweetness pervades
Upasaka : devotee

4 hands of God represent: Mnao, or Buddhi, Chittha, Ahamkara. I.e., Mind, intellect, Thought stuff and ego sense.

Vishnu’s Blue color reps Color of infinity, measurelessis in Blue. E.g sky, ocean
Yellow dress reps color of earth; Finite
i.e. infinite clothed in finite , playing life game with 4 inner instrumrnts- symbolism of Vishnu.
Lotus reps Peace and prosperity.

Maha Vakyas:
Tat Twam Asi = That Thau Art
Aham, Brahmma Asmi = I am Brahman
Ayam Atma Brahman = This self is Brahman.

Identifying ourselves with the self is Buddhi

p-720- Three stages in which realization of Truth comes to man are:: To Know, To see, To enter.

To know: Intellectual Knowledge of the Goal and path is the beginning of a seeker’s pilgrimage to know.

To see: attempt to masticate the ideas Intelligently understood thro’ his own personal reflections upon information which he has gathered.

To enter : Thro’ a process of detachment from the False and Attachment to the Real comes to Experience the Truth.

For man to gain strength of Cosmic Powers, there are 5 plans:

1. whose work is all dedicated to Lord
2. whose goal is Lord
3. who is devotee of Lord
4. who is free from all Attachments
5. who is devoid of all sense of enmity towards every one.

p-727- Avyakta : Unmanifest = not directly perceivable like sense organs

Path of devotion, Path of Action, Path of Knowledge

Three main conditions to become a true devotee upon a manifest Form:
1. Perfect faith
2. 2. Staedfat in worship
3. one’s mind totally merged with the concept of Lord.

p-733- Three conditions to meditate in Unmanifest Form:

1. Senses controlled
2. Intellectual equanimity ( Sama Buddhi )in all conditions and Experience ( like a father to his naughty son )
3. Intent in the welfare of all beings.




Geeta- p41 to p44.

Page 41

Three types of Arguments:

1. Jalpa : Arguments by vehement criticisms and bitter rejoinder spoken with arrogance in asserting.

2. Vithanda : the champion of discussion mercilessly criticizes the Arguments of the opposite to destroy the edifice of the other.

3. Vaadha: Logical Arguments.

‘ a ‘ is ending sound of all Sanskrit words.

p-740- Na-samsaya = No doubt- you follow one of these to reach Me.


1. There are 2 conditions- Fix your mind on Me; Place your Intellect on Me.
2. If it is difficult achieve it by practicing again and again.
3. If that is also not possible, perform actions for my sake – like a father to a new born son- Un conscious spirit of dedication towards Him will come.
4. If that is also not possible, then take refuge in Me, self controlled, renounce all fruits of actions.

Upasana :

Not only merely a meditation upon the goal but, becoming in an active way, one with goal contemplated upon.

If we entertain in our Mind, the idea that we are the agents of the Divine, executing His activities, then our mind will not only be made to contemplate on the Lord continuously but also, we shall be drawing from ourselves miraculous powers of efficiency, organizational dexterity & confident courage in all our undertakings.


Beauty of expression in the whole of Geeta 12 chapter 8 to 14 ,( 7 stanzas) & chapter 2 - 55 to 68, (14 stanzas).

Ch-12/ 13 to 20

Noble qualities.

1. He realizes that self is every where.
2. He does not hate anyone because RH or LH is not hated by us.
3. Friendly attitude to all living creatures.
4. Ever compassionate to all.
5. He offers security of life to all.
6. Free from egoism.
7. Even minded in pain & pleasure.
8. Unaffected when beaten or abused
9. Always contented he discovers & joy in himself.
10. Steadfast in meditation.
11. Self control & firm in his resolve ever centered on Me
12. Will not create agitation in the world around him.
13 Will not get agitated.
14. Freed from joy, envy, fear, and anxiety.
15. Free from dependence on object or relation.
16. He is pure in discipline, clean at house.
17.Alert. Enthusiasm is key to success in any undertakings.
18.Unconcerned to economize our mental energies.
19. Free from trembling – no inner fear on agitation.
20. Renouncing every undertaking , i.e., to end all beginnings i.e renouncing egoistic sence of self importance and work.
21. Neither rejoices
22. nor hates.
23. nor grieves
24. nor desires
25. renouncing good and evil,
26. full of devotion
27. Equal to foe and friend
28. Equal in Honour and dishonour
29. Equal to Heat and Cold, Pleasure and pain & free from Attachment
30. Equal to censure and praise
31. He is silent
32. Content with anything that reach unasked and unexpected
33. Homeless. i.e., No sense of possession
34. Steady minded
35. Full of devotion
36. Totally following Sanathana Dharma.

p-736- A devotee of infinite Lord surrenders himself totally and acts as a messenger ( like Ambassador to God)

1st 6 chapters explained the term THOU
2nd 6 chapters explained the term THAT
3rd 6 chapters explained the term ART

“ That” dressed up in Matter is “Thou”

Kshtra = Field
Kshtrakjan = Knower of the Field
Prakriti = matter
Purusha = Spirit

When spirit awakens to its spiritual status, it discovers its own Reality in which the Phantom of matter has no existence at all. Similar to Dreamer and Waker.

Kshetra is the field of matter constituted of various Equipments of perception and the vast fields of perceiving.

Kshetrakjna : subject that enjoys the activities of the instruments of perception and the world perceived by them.

Tanmatras = Rudimentary elements i.e., 5 great Elements

Egoism = Ahamkara = I - ness & My-ness
Intellect = Buddhi = determining faculty = rational thinking

Totality of Vasanas = Moola Prakrirti ( Sankyans say ); Maya ( Vedantins say).

10 senses = 5 sense Organs of perception + 5 sense organs of action.

Mind receives Stimuli and executes Judgment

5 senses+ Ego + Intellect +Unmanifest +Mind + 10+5 = 24
24 principles of Tatwas.

Body, Mind , Intellect constitute the entire world of objects and also the perceptions Experienced thro’ them.-à All fields.

Knower has 20 Qualities in 5 verses of Geeta. 8/12.

Here mental, emotional attributes, moral attributes and ethical principles are described.


1. Humility = absence of self esteem
2. Modesty = not proclaiming one’s own greatness
3. Non injury
4. Patience
5. Purity in Thoughts, Dress, surroundings
6. Intense motives
7. Forgiveness
8. Steadfastness, Concentration
9. Absence for the Attachment to Objects,
10. Vairagya
11. Abandonment of Thought of I –ness
12. Perception of evil ,pain
13. Non-Attachment
14. Non-Identity of self with the family.
15. Constant even mindedness on the attainment of desirable and undesirable.
16. Unswerving devotion unto Me by Yoga of non-separation
17. Resorting to solitary places
18. Concern for the society
19. Constancy in self Knowledge
20. Perception and understanding of the end of True Knowledge


Liberation ( Moksha ) from all our imperfections and limitations is the end striven for by all spiritual seekers.

All these Qualities are Knowledge

What is Knower? Brahman is asat ( non-existent)
Consciousness known intelligently, realized intuitively , and Experienced spiritually.

Illuminisity of the self is > > sun, moon, star etc

Heart : is the dwelling place of the self.

Field and its Knower together constitute the womb of all Beings.

p- 796 - Effects in 13 in number. 5 senses+ Mind +Intellect +Ahamkara+ 5 Elements

Causes: Prakriti is the cause in the production of Cause and effect.

In the especially of Pleasure and Pain , Purusha is the Cause.

p-798-- Qualities born out of Prakriti : All duals of opposite : Pleasure, pain, Honour , dishonour, success, Failure etc. Sensations.


Paths:

1. Quiet mind and steady intelligent --à deep Meditation – Highest path
2. By sankya Yoga – i.e., by studying Sasthras
3. Karma Yoga : i.e., selfless activity.

Thus the existing vasanas exhaust themselves and more Tranquility is Experienced by the seeker.

p-817 – The spirit of identifying itself with “ Field” ( Prakriti) becomes the “ Knower” of the Field.
( Purusha).


p- 840 – 3 Gunas:

1. Satwa: Happines & Knowledge : Thrills of creative momentsin lifeà inward happiness.

2. Rajo : Desire and Attachment . Passionate à thirsty desires, Attachment à sweat and toil , greed, active, enterprising, unrest.

3. Tamas: Lack of discrimination, sleep. Veiling wisdom, Judgment -à wrong comprehensions. Dark, inertness, deletions, drowsiness, veils, lack of enthusiasm.

Divine light of cognition beams out thro’ senses thro’ the 2 eyes,2 ears, and tongue.
Light of Consciousness reflect in the Intellect.


Agama = scriptures

p-852- We have been given the best circumstances ( like a rich man’s son ) of higher strata of life ---à Human beings. So, develop best cultural Qualities .

p 854- To change mind is difficult. So, change actions , perform noble actions, disciplined behaviour.
Internal serenity : minimum agitations.

Good actions quietens the mind and separates its passion .

p-859- Three Gunas are transcended when we are established in the spiritual Experience . The symptoms like Temperature, Headache, and back pain all must vanish and also we should regain old strength and health.

This process of escaping from the subjective shackles is Liberation or Moksha.

p-859- God is not Object of perception.He is the subject that perceives thro’ us.

p-861- The ego is these 3 Gunas.. gunas means subtle body.i.e., minds of individuals.

p-863- Near Oven, heat and smoke in the kitchen are not the Qualities of Atmosphere but properties of Fire. To escape, walk out. Similarly, walk out of the 3 Gunas. I.e., Transcend all 3 Gunas.

p-865- In sleep, we forget pain, hunger, sorrow. Once we wake up,they return to us. Once the state of Bliss Experienced at the moment of Realization of the self Is not a temporary cessation of sorrows but permanent.

Satwa = Light
Rajo = Activity
Tamas = Delusion

p-876 - Bring religion from Pooja room and temples to every day life by dedicated work and service to people .

p-878- Life’s false Identity with the BMI are broken, the ego is dead and the Awareness of the Real rises up to flood the bosom.

p-897- BMI = Body Mind & Intellect ( Feelings, Thoughts, emotions)

Egocentric personality ( jiva) born out of Consciousness playing on a subtle body.

Water in a bucket breaks into bits due to Breeze. So, moon appears scattered.

p-898 - Light of Consciousness reflected in the Mind and Intellect that becomes the special beam of light, the intelligence.


Ch-15 /10

For a successful Meditation :

1.Remove agitations created by false egocentric Attachments to sense Objects.
2. The Intellect is to be tuned up properly to a correct understanding of the Nature of the self.

Then the doubts of the misty mind which veils its Right perception are removed thro’ Study, Reflection and Practice.

903- Manifestations of the Real is different because the Equipments are different . Light in Bulb, Heat in Furnace, Rotation in fan are all different manifestations; but the energy- electricity is one and the same.

Prana = Perception
Apana = Excretion

Ch- 15 / 17 : Three worlds = 3 states of Experience – waking, dream, deep sleep. The Supreme self pervades all 3 worlds. There are 3 different Purushas.

Spirit appears different in its manifestations. A pot in a room. Now pot space is lesser tha room space. Room space is negligible portion of Total space.

Pot space- pot = space same as infinite space. Break the pot we get the same infinite space.

i.e., When perishable is transcended ( i.e., Pot breaks) what remains is not Imperishable but that which plays as perishable and Imperishable – Purusha.

No change is perceivable w/o reference to a Reference to a changeless factor.
2 trains move in the same direction at same speed. No change is recognizable. Similarly:

Changes in the world of matter = BMI
Changeless factor = Imperishable = Pure Consciousness, infinity.

Ch-15 / 19 : Knowing : not Intellectual comprehension; but spiritual apprehension.

Anything is known by perception, feeling, Thought – it is thro’ Consciousness that illuminates

P-917-16:

Devas = Divinely Gods
Asuras = diabolically fallen
Rakshasas = Incorrigibly indifferent.
Why the Experiences are varied though the Subject is the same? It is because of the 3 different temperaments – Gunas.

Qualities are by scientific observations made in the physical, mental and Intellectual behaviour.

26 values of Life : see Tamil version.

Unmalicious tongue = Koll telling.
Ostentation = pretending to be righteous- hypocrite.

Ch-16 /17 :

Yajna: pours his best into the activity of life as an oblation to propitiate the potential Goodness in existence.

Physiologically man & temperamentally animal.

Ch-16 / 23:

Theory of Truth Books are called Brahma Vidhya --à sasthras
Techniques of self perfection are called Yoga.
Books that throw Light up on Sasthras are called Prakarna

Various fields of man’s endeavour :

1. His physical indulge ness ( aahara )
2. His dedicated activities ( yajna)
3. His self denials ( Tapas)
4. His Charities ( Dhaana)

Faith ( Sraddha ) is of 3 kinds: Divine, Undevine, diabolic.

3 Temperaments that rule our behaviour are : good, passionate and dull.

Ch-17 / 4: p 968.

3 types of Altars which man seeks for satisfaction

Satwas: From Devas : Help gained from good friends.
Rajo: Yakshas and Rakshasas : protection invoked from rich and powerful
Tamas: Pretas and boothas: Enormous strength gathered from the low Thoughtless men of criminal intensions.

Ch-17 /16 :
Quietitude when protected from inflow of stimuli from sense Objects and when whipping desires that march out from the intelligence to drive the mind into the fields of Enjoyment.

Ch-17 /18:

Tapas: Economy of Thought forces and the intelligent reinvestment of the economized energy in to more creative fields of Development .

Om, Tat, Sat : Eternal Reality indicated in 3 Realities.

Om: Transcendental and the Pure self the Absolute which is Infinite substratum up on which BMI projects.

Tat indicates the eternal God used in scriptures; indicates from which every thing has come.

Sat: The reality, the existence.

Supreme Om, Universal Tat and Real Sat.

Ch-18 / 3. Abandonment or Thiaga is the Way and total Renunciation is the Goal.

Reincarnation theory in Sanathana Dharma

Ch-18 / 12: If one Identifies himself with “ Higher” and live up on the ideal as best as he can , the “ Higher” vasanas will multiply and ultimately silence the Lower.

18 / 17:

Causes of Misunderstanding :
1. Untempered reason ( Akrita Budhi )
2. perverted Mind ( Durmathi 0
So, the Right cognition of one’s own divinity is not maintained.


Ch-18 /18:

3 fold arrangement of Impulse to Action: Knowledge , Known and the Knower.
Instruments of Action : Reason, Kartha, Karma

Organs of Perception and Action + Mind and Intellect

p-1027- raaga and Dwesha = Likes and Dislikes


Drithi = Fortitude, Perseverance
Uthsaaha = Extreme Zeal

Satwic Actor = e.g Nurse in a Hospital No Attachment to a patient.

Procrastinate = incapable of coming to a firm judgment
p-1068- Prasada = Peace and Tranquility.

Verse-40 / four fold classification: Creative Thinkers, Politicians, Commercial employers, Labourers.

Brahmans = Scholars
Kshathriyas = Leaders
Vaisyas = Traders
Sudhras = Workers.

An individual is judged by the expressions in Life and by the Quality of his contacts with the world outside.

Sama = serenity = controlling the mind from running into the world of Objects
Dama = Self control and sense organ control
Tapas = Austerity (vratham ) = constant self denial to economize the energy for reaching the “Highest”.

Verse-44/ When vasanas are exhausted by devoted actions in the proper field according to his 4 categories, he will Experience Tranquility and it will become possible for more and more concentration.

Swabava = Nature
Swadharma = corresponding station in Life.
Naishkarmya Siddhi = Wise state of Being wherein there is no Ignorance , no desire, no Thought , no Action . This actionlessness is called naishkarmya siddhi.

Tuft on Head = Kudumi

Mind: Seat of all vanities of Agency like “ I am the Doer”
Intellect : Seat of all false arrogations like “ I am the Enjoyer”
These 2 together make up the Ego and is nourished by its clinging Attachments to the Joy that is in the Objects of world. Therefore when the clinging Attachments dry up Doership and Enjoyership will get sublimated leaving behind the Self.

Verse- 52 / Meditator – How he becomes successful ?

1. Intellect purified of all its extrovert desires. I.e., Joy hunting. Remembers past Experiences. Rush of stimuli must be stopped.
2. Mind and sense organs under the control of this Intellect so purified .
3. Sense organs – no more contacting sense Objects
4. The Mind that has given up the ideas of Likes and Dislikes.
5. Dwelling in solitude.
6. eating but a little
7. Controlling speed of Body and Mind ( subdueing )
8. Ever engaged in Meditation i.e., Stopping the flow of Mind thro’ sense organs towards sense Objects .
9. Possessing Dispassion ( Vairagya )

Renounce the following 6 from Inner Core of Meditator.

I act- mentality is Ahamkara, Arrogance, Power, lust, Anger, Aggrandizement.

Now balance and Equipoise is obtained due to the Quietitude. Then he is fit to become Brahman.

Verse-56 /

Disciplines pursued at Body level – work- Karma Yoga
Disciplines pursued at Mind level – Devotion – Bakthi Yoga
Study , Reflection, detachment and Meditation practiced at Intellectual level whereby mind is lifted to the silent Experience of the Infinity – is Jnana Yoga.

1. Work, 2. Devotion. 3. Knowledge
Intellect’s main function is to discriminate – Buddhi Yoga

Verse- 60 / Pure Consciousness does not act in itself. But in the presence of matter envelopment get vitalized and then they seem to act like steam in a Steam engine- Train otherwise it is just an Iron Assy.

The supreme functioning thro’ the total Bodies is Ishwara.

To illustrate the Total devotion , we have the examples of Radha, Meera, Hanuman, Prahaladha etc.

Unless a Teacher has infinite Love for the Taught there is no inspired Joy in teaching.

Essential dharma of Man is The Divine spark of Existence of the Infinite Lord.

Meditator to accomplish 3 adjustments in his inner personality:

1. Renounce all Dharmas thro’ Meditation
2. Come to MY surrender alone.
3. Stop all worries.

HE hall release us from all sins.

Renounce non-essential Dharmas i.e., Perceiver, Feeler, Thinker
personality.

Nurtured, nourished, guarded and protected.