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July 12, 2018 by Gita Wisdom

July 12, 2018 – Long Island Series, Week 13 – [BG 4.4-4.6]

Arjuna, who grew up with Krishna, questions how Krishna taught the science of the self to the sun god at the dawn of time.

Topics include:

  • The role of karma in shaping our lives and bodies
  • Why we don’t remember our past lives
  • What happens when we are liberated
  • The story of Jada Bharata

Additional topics include:

  • Three obstacles to chanting
  • The story of Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto

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Homework

Read verses and purports from Bhagavad Gita As It Is Chapter 4 Verses 7 and 8 [BG 4.7 – 4.8]

Mentioned in this podcast

Abbreviations used in these notes: BG for Bhagavad Gita

Books

  • Bhagavad Gita As It Is
  • Conscious Community: A Guide to Inner Work by Kalman Shapira

Verses

BG 4.4

Arjuna said: The sun-god Vivasvān is senior by birth to You. How am I to understand that in the beginning You instructed this science to him?

BG 4.5

The Personality of Godhead said: Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!

BG 4.6

Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.

Vocabulary

Janma – birth
Veda – knowledge
Moksha – liberation
Samsara – the cycle of birth and death
Sadhu – a holy person who has renounced material life
Prasadam – literally “mercy”; food that has become sanctified by first offering it to God
Pranayama – yogic breathing techniques
Sat-chit-ananda – the inviolable qualities of all souls: eternity, self-awareness, bliss
Maya – illusion, “that which is not,” e.g. thinking the visible world to be the only reality

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Would you like to take the quiz again? All questions and answers are discussed in this podcast (Long Island Series, Week 13 BG 4.4-4.6).

#1. Realization of Brahman or Paramatma is incomplete. Which quality can be experienced only through realization of the Supreme Being?

#2. What does the word janma mean?

#3. Jada Bharata, in his previous life as King Bharata, was thinking about what at the time of his death?

#4. The path of devotional yoga is known as

#5. The cycle of birth and death is known as

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