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In Ramayana / Balakanda this week it is Balakanda Sarga 68. The messengers from Janaka reach Ayodhya to inform Dasaratha about Rama having won Sita . They also carry the invitation from Janaka to come to Mithila. Dasaratha is all set to go to to Mithila!

In Bhagavadgita we are on the fifth chapter namely Karma Sanyasa Yoga. There is an added comment on some slokas in the fifth chapter. To say Bhagavadgita is an amazing document would be repeating ourself . None the less the process of writing the prose order for each sloka and then understanding led us to muse a little more . Out of that musing came our comment "A thought from Bhagavdgita" ! Another aspect of our Bhagavadgita is that where ever there is significant Sanskrit text is involved we are having the option of reading the Sanskrit text in Devanagari script or Kannada script with rest of the notes remaining in English. We have full commentary in Telugu with slokas too separately.

We have multilingual pages. An important part of language pages is Telugu. The Telugu home page is restructured . We want all our Telugu visitors to visit the new Telugu page. We created pages for Telugu Balakanda, Telugu Bhagavadgita and Subbalakshmi gari kalamlO. These are in addition to the earlier Vijayraghavrao gari Sundarakanda.

We are excited.

Happy Reading !

What is on the Kasarabada.org?

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- Ramayanam which includes (i) Sundarakanda, (ii) Role models of Ramayana, (iii) Vijayraghavrao gari Telugu Sundarakanda (iv) Balakanda

- Bhagavatam which includes (i) Dasama Skandha and (ii) Uddhava Gita

Athato Brahma jignyasaa which includes (i) Kathopanishad and (ii) Tatvabhodha

One more thing is a page where we have articles which could be on anything , informative and educative handled with a light heart and a touch of contemporary realities.

These pages list all contents of those segments !

In effect to have a look at what is available from the earlier issues you only need to visit the four pages of Ramayanam , Bhagavatam , one more thing. and Athato Brahma Jignyasaa. Each page of these banner pages carry the list of all earlier articles .

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One more thing !

A thought from

Bhagavadgita !

|| om tat sat ||

A thought from Bhagavadgita.

Some statements in

Bhagavadgita are revealing.

One may say that it is only to be expected when it is part of Prasthanatraya - the trinity .

But even then they are revealing in an unexpected way.

Unexpected way because of the simplicity of the embedded thought that is propounded..

In any case let us look at at some of the statements in chapter 5.

At one point Krishna says :

न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणी

लॊकस्य सृजति प्रभुः ।
न कर्मफल संयॊगं

स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्ततॆ ॥

Meaning there by that :

प्रभुः लोकस्य कर्तृत्वं न सृजति | - Bhagavan does not create the ownership -

कर्माणि न | - not the actions too.

कर्मफलसंयोगम् (अपि) न सृजति | - ( he) does not create the relationship with the results

स्वभ्आवः तु प्रवर्ततॆ - They are all because of one’s nature.

Which means that all our actions are our responsibility.

The results of all our actions are also our responsibility.

There is no place to ascribe any of these as the 'will of God' or say done at the direction of God.

One can not be a thief and put that as the responsibility of an all knowing super God who made him do that ! Nor can one ascribe the winning of a lottery to the Lord on the seven hills !!

With a good heart we do good things or with evil on our mind we do some thing evil . Both are born out of our nature alone !

This is a simple fact.

That all of our actions are born out of our nature.

There is no need even to think if it is the truth.

It is the absolute truth.

To understand this we need not be philosophers

To understand this we do not need a mind capable of higher philosophic enquiry.

To understand this we need not have known anything at all about Vedas or Upanishads etc.

A similar thought comes in the next sloka

नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं

न चैव सुकृतं विभुः ।
अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं

तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः ॥

It means that

"विभुः कस्यचित् पापम् न आदत्ते | - 'God does not take over the sins of any body'.

If we regret the action , pray and confess to God, then take bath in the Ganges at Kashi and say that we have washed off our sins or God has washed off our sins, it is ignorance.

Similarly

"सुकृतं च एव न (आदत्ते)"।- "good deeds also"

Meaning there by that the good deeds are also not accepted by God for further accounting !

It means that Bhagavan is only a witness.

Witness to our good deeds and bad deeds and nothing more

In reality our "self" is a witness for our god deeds and bad deeds

In other words God like self is only a witness

In Advaita God and self are one , not two !

Why does this thought that God is responsible for all our actions and reactions occur ?

अज्ञानेन ज्ञानं आवृतम्| - ignorance covers the knowledge (truth)

( तस्मात्) तेन जंतवः मुह्यंति - because of that ignorance the beings are mesmerized.

Mesmerized into believing that the "ever acting Super God" as truth.

In a similar tone but more clearly Krishna tells Uddhava in Uddhava Gita also.

प्रायेण मनुजा लोके

लोक तत्व विचक्षणाः।
समुद्धरन्ति आत्मानं

आत्मनैवाशुभाशयात् ||

It says that:

" लोक तत्व विचक्षणाः " people who have knowledge of the ways of the world

"समुद्धरंति आत्मानं"- They will lift themselves up !- How ?- one may ask !

"आत्मनैव" - by their own self: From what they lift themselves up?

अशुभाशयात् - from inauspicious acts !!

It says that people by their own discrimination power lift themselves up.

This is a simple fact.

Again in Bhagavadgita sixth chapter Krishna says :

श्रीभगवानुवाच:
उद्धरेदात्मना आत्मानं

न आत्मना अवसादयेत् ।
आत्मैव आत्मनो भंधुः

अत्मैव रिपुः आत्मनः॥

आत्मना - by own self
आत्मानं - himself
उद्धरेत् - lift (himself) up

अत्मैव आत्मनो बंधुः - one self is his own friend ( if he wins over the battle of life)

अत्मैव आत्मनो रिपुः - one self is his own enemy ( if he loses the battle of life )

न आत्मना अवसादयेत्
- One should not degenerate by himself ( he should always move up) !

It simply means that one can by his own efforts can lift himself up.

Any body else may show a way.

But the action has to be by the individual alone.

What is that action ?

Nishkama karma and Samatva

Act without selfish goals and have an equanimity towards all.

That means in these four slokas Krishna laid down the following

We can bring ourselves up.

By our nature we may do good deeds or bad deeds

But with our discriminating power,

we can overcome that nature.

In a colloquial chat one may say with "By Gods grace everything will be great". It is so in colloquial way. But these four slokas tell us that everything has to be done by us .

God has no role in this !

One may ask- "Is this the great secret we found in reading Gita?"

One may feel that - "This is such a simple fact - is that a big deal !"

Yes in reality it is a great statement,

if we absorb this fact.

With our "self" as the witness for all things we do,

perform action with no selfish goals,
and acquire an equanimity which demolishes the walls of friends and foes,
then the joy we get is the
unlimited ultimate happiness !

This is the greatness of Gita ;

To read absorb Vedas Upanishads , acquire philosophic knowledge , then following strict discipline of Yoga learn about Brahman and then obtain Liberation is one way.

It is the arduous path, the way it was prescribed in Vedas !

Bhagavadgita proposes ways which are within the reach of a common men.

They may not have the zing of the intellectual speak.

They speak of simple facts and simple ways .

That is the greatness of Gita.

|| om tat sat ||

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Some of the earlier articles:

The story of "My Sundarakanda"

A sequel to Vakbhushanam bhushanam

The new beginnings on a festival day !!

Mantras from Ramayana

The story of the Lizard !

Sanskrit words and their meanings- Sivoham !!

Walking away !! - a difficult task !

Jayamantram and Management styles

'Peace does not fall from the sky'

History of Sanskrit Literature

Vurdhva mula madhassaakham ... more .. notes from

Kathopanishad -

Self as the master of the Chariot -notes from kathopanishad

Good Vs Pleasant from kathopanishad

Blind leading Blind - from Katha

Upanishad

The story of Ganesh Chaturthi

Manisha Panchakam Sloka 1

Manisha Panchakam

Who are you ??

Leader and the Led

Bhakthi and Self surrender

Why say so many words Part 2

Why say so many words Part 1

Gurus and lessons

Such a Simple message !!

Sundarakanda and the related Beliefs

Remembering Sribhashyam

Appalacharyulu garu

The methods of Elucidation

( Lakshana)

The story of the Jar/Kunda

The story of Devadatta

"Hitam Manohari cha" - revisited

Dasama Nyaya

On the Fortune - a demolition of its traits !!

on the Success

The story of Sabari

Charvaka School of Philosophy

On Vedas from the West

Jayamantram

The story of a Bear ( from Ramayana)

Ramudu-Sugunaabhiraamudu

Sahasavidadhita na kriyam..

... 'no not in a hurry'!

Aham nasyaami .. I destroy !! contributed by Tuaraga Rajendraparasad.

"It is not that the holy waters are not altogether Holy - Krishna

An intelligent man should follow those actions that are consistent and within his realm of action ..( more)

.. I am enquiring , that should be clearly explained! …." Thus spoke Krishna.(more.).

" Peace does not drop from the sky" says Dalai Lama.

Passing away of a stalwart:

Prof Bhavaraju Sarveswara Rao

. ............

Unison of thought speech and action

Jewel of jewels'

Who is Poor ?

Green message from Bhagava...

Music in our Epics

what is kasara ?

Saundaryalahiri

Home Valmiki Ramayanam Srimad Bhagavatam Trust Contacts

	The Contents.... !!! Happy Reading !! Bhagavatam , Dasama Skandha, Uddhava Gita Ramayanam Sundarakanda Balakanda Rama Pattabhisheka Sankshipta Ramayanam, Role Models from Ramayana, Vijayraghavrao gari Telugu Sundarakanda , *Athato Brhamajignyasa, Kathopanishad , Tatvabodha, Bhagavadgita One more thing* *Happy Reading* !!! Om tat sat !! info@Kasarabada.org For Telugu Home page click here At	Welcome to Kasarabada.org November 14, 2015 !! Children's Day ! Kasarabada.org welcomes all ! In Ramayana / Balakanda this week it is Balakanda Sarga 68. The messengers from Janaka reach Ayodhya to inform Dasaratha about Rama having won Sita . They also carry the invitation from Janaka to come to Mithila. Dasaratha is all set to go to to Mithila! In Bhagavadgita we are on the fifth chapter namely Karma Sanyasa Yoga. There is an added comment on some slokas in the fifth chapter. To say Bhagavadgita is an amazing document would be repeating ourself . None the less the process of writing the prose order for each sloka and then understanding led us to muse a little more . Out of that musing came our comment "A thought from Bhagavdgita" ! Another aspect of our Bhagavadgita is that where ever there is significant Sanskrit text is involved we are having the option of reading the Sanskrit text in Devanagari script or Kannada script with rest of the notes remaining in English. We have full commentary in Telugu with slokas too separately. We have multilingual pages. An important part of language pages is Telugu. The Telugu home page is restructured . We want all our Telugu visitors to visit the new *Telugu page. We created pages for Telugu Balakanda, Telugu Bhagavadgita* and *Subbalakshmi gari kalamlO. These are in addition to the earlier Vijayraghavrao gari Sundarakanda. We are excited. Happy Reading ! What is on the Kasarabada.org?* For the new visitors - the site has a layered structure with with Four main pages : - Ramayanam which includes (i) Sundarakanda, (ii) Role models of Ramayana, (iii) Vijayraghavrao gari Telugu Sundarakanda (iv) Balakanda - Bhagavatam which includes (i) Dasama Skandha and (ii) Uddhava Gita Athato Brahma jignyasaa which includes (i) Kathopanishad and (ii) Tatvabhodha One more thing is a page where we have articles which could be on anything , informative and educative handled with a light heart and a touch of contemporary realities. These pages list all contents of those segments ! In effect to have a look at what is available from the earlier issues you only need to visit the four pages of Ramayanam , Bhagavatam , one more thing. and Athato Brahma Jignyasaa. Each page of these banner pages carry the list of all earlier articles . Om Tat Sat ( info@kasarabada.org) Index Archives Witty Wisdom - contributed by Kamaraju Turaga __________________________________________________	One more thing ! A thought from Bhagavadgita ! \|\| om tat sat \|\| A thought from Bhagavadgita. Some statements in Bhagavadgita are revealing. One may say that it is only to be expected when it is part of Prasthanatraya - the trinity . But even then they are revealing in an unexpected way. Unexpected way because of the simplicity of the embedded thought that is propounded.. In any case let us look at at some of the statements in chapter 5. At one point Krishna says : न कर्तृत्वं न कर्माणी लॊकस्य सृजति प्रभुः । न कर्मफल संयॊगं स्वभावस्तु प्रवर्ततॆ ॥ Meaning there by that : प्रभुः लोकस्य कर्तृत्वं न सृजति \| - Bhagavan does not create the ownership - कर्माणि न \| - not the actions too. कर्मफलसंयोगम् (अपि) न सृजति \| - ( he) does not create the relationship with the results स्वभ्आवः तु प्रवर्ततॆ - They are all because of one’s nature. Which means that all our actions are our responsibility. The results of all our actions are also our responsibility. There is no place to ascribe any of these as the 'will of God' or say done at the direction of God. One can not be a thief and put that as the responsibility of an all knowing super God who made him do that ! Nor can one ascribe the winning of a lottery to the Lord on the seven hills !! With a good heart we do good things or with evil on our mind we do some thing evil . Both are born out of our nature alone ! This is a simple fact. That all of our actions are born out of our nature. There is no need even to think if it is the truth. It is the absolute truth. To understand this we need not be philosophers To understand this we do not need a mind capable of higher philosophic enquiry. To understand this we need not have known anything at all about Vedas or Upanishads etc. A similar thought comes in the next sloka नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः । अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः ॥ It means that "विभुः कस्यचित् पापम् न आदत्ते \| - 'God does not take over the sins of any body'. If we regret the action , pray and confess to God, then take bath in the Ganges at Kashi and say that we have washed off our sins or God has washed off our sins, it is ignorance. Similarly "सुकृतं च एव न (आदत्ते)"।- "good deeds also" Meaning there by that the good deeds are also not accepted by God for further accounting ! It means that Bhagavan is only a witness. Witness to our good deeds and bad deeds and nothing more In reality our "self" is a witness for our god deeds and bad deeds In other words God like self is only a witness In Advaita God and self are one , not two ! Why does this thought that God is responsible for all our actions and reactions occur ? अज्ञानेन ज्ञानं आवृतम्\| - ignorance covers the knowledge (truth) ( तस्मात्) तेन जंतवः मुह्यंति - because of that ignorance the beings are mesmerized. Mesmerized into believing that the "ever acting Super God" as truth. In a similar tone but more clearly Krishna tells Uddhava in Uddhava Gita also. प्रायेण मनुजा लोके लोक तत्व विचक्षणाः। समुद्धरन्ति आत्मानं आत्मनैवाशुभाशयात् \|\| It says that: " लोक तत्व विचक्षणाः " people who have knowledge of the ways of the world "समुद्धरंति आत्मानं"- They will lift themselves up !- How ?- one may ask ! "आत्मनैव" - by their own self: From what they lift themselves up? अशुभाशयात् - from inauspicious acts !! It says that people by their own discrimination power lift themselves up. This is a simple fact. Again in Bhagavadgita sixth chapter Krishna says : श्रीभगवानुवाच: उद्धरेदात्मना आत्मानं न आत्मना अवसादयेत् । आत्मैव आत्मनो भंधुः अत्मैव रिपुः आत्मनः॥ आत्मना - by own self आत्मानं - himself उद्धरेत् - lift (himself) up अत्मैव आत्मनो बंधुः - one self is his own friend ( if he wins over the battle of life) अत्मैव आत्मनो रिपुः - one self is his own enemy ( if he loses the battle of life ) न आत्मना अवसादयेत् - One should not degenerate by himself ( he should always move up) ! It simply means that one can by his own efforts can lift himself up. Any body else may show a way. But the action has to be by the individual alone. What is that action ? Nishkama karma and Samatva Act without selfish goals and have an equanimity towards all. That means in these four slokas Krishna laid down the following We can bring ourselves up. By our nature we may do good deeds or bad deeds But with our discriminating power, we can overcome that nature. In a colloquial chat one may say with "By Gods grace everything will be great". It is so in colloquial way. But these four slokas tell us that everything has to be done by us . God has no role in this ! One may ask- "Is this the great secret we found in reading Gita?" One may feel that - "This is such a simple fact - is that a big deal !" Yes in reality it is a great statement, if we absorb this fact. With our "self" as the witness for all things we do, perform action with no selfish goals, and acquire an equanimity which demolishes the walls of friends and foes, then the joy we get is the unlimited ultimate happiness ! This is the greatness of Gita ; To read absorb Vedas Upanishads , acquire philosophic knowledge , then following strict discipline of Yoga learn about Brahman and then obtain Liberation is one way. It is the arduous path, the way it was prescribed in Vedas ! Bhagavadgita proposes ways which are within the reach of a common men. They may not have the zing of the intellectual speak. They speak of simple facts and simple ways . That is the greatness of Gita. \|\| om tat sat \|\| info@kasarabada.org *om tat sat* !! info@Kasarabada.org To continue reading One more thing page click here !!! *Om tat sat* info@kasarabada.org Some of the earlier articles: The story of "My Sundarakanda" A sequel to Vakbhushanam bhushanam The new beginnings on a festival day !! Mantras from Ramayana The story of the Lizard ! Sanskrit words and their meanings- Sivoham !! Walking away !! - a difficult task ! Jayamantram and Management styles 'Peace does not fall from the sky' History of Sanskrit Literature Vurdhva mula madhassaakham ... more .. notes from Kathopanishad - Self as the master of the Chariot -notes from kathopanishad Good Vs Pleasant from kathopanishad Blind leading Blind - from Katha Upanishad The story of Ganesh Chaturthi Manisha Panchakam Sloka 1 Manisha Panchakam Who are you ?? Leader and the Led Bhakthi and Self surrender Why say so many words Part 2 Why say so many words Part 1 Gurus and lessons Such a Simple message !! Sundarakanda and the related Beliefs Remembering Sribhashyam Appalacharyulu garu The methods of Elucidation ( Lakshana) The story of the Jar/Kunda The story of Devadatta "Hitam Manohari cha" - revisited Dasama Nyaya On the Fortune - a demolition of its traits !! on the Success The story of Sabari Charvaka School of Philosophy On Vedas from the West Jayamantram The story of a Bear ( from Ramayana) Ramudu-Sugunaabhiraamudu Sahasavidadhita na kriyam.. ... 'no not in a hurry'! Aham nasyaami .. I destroy !! contributed by Tuaraga Rajendraparasad. "It is not that the holy waters are not altogether Holy - Krishna *An intelligent man should follow those actions that are consistent and within his realm of action* ..( more) *.. I am enquiring , that should be clearly explained! …."* Thus spoke Krishna.(more.). " Peace does not drop from the sky" says Dalai Lama. *Passing away of a stalwart:* Prof Bhavaraju Sarveswara Rao . ............ Unison of thought speech and action Jewel of jewels' Who is Poor ? Green message from Bhagava... Music in our Epics what is kasara ? Saundaryalahiri
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The Contents.... !!!

Welcome to Kasarabada.org

November 14, 2015 !!

Children's Day !

Witty Wisdom

One more thing !