Last stop of a serious investigator for truth
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| For a serious investigator of truth the last stop0 in the investigation process is Bhagavad geeta, for the Supreme Lord Sri:ma:n na:ra:yana Himself took the incarnation of Sri: Krishna and revealed the absolute-truth in unambiguous words through Bhagavad geeta, becoming the teacher of the world. Our own level of understanding of the language being poor, we still need to learn the true interpretation of His words from people who have learnt the same from someone else and that ascendance order ending in Srima:n na:ra:yana Himself, such a lineage we call as guru parampara1. Ra:ma:nuja a:cha:rya, the crest jewel of such guru parampara, out of his infinite grace further clarified the Lord’s message with his geeta bha:shyam2, based on the summary provided by his a:cha:rya,yamuna muni, in ‘geeta:rtha sangraha3’. Sri: ve:da:nta de:sika, another great a:cha:rya4 representing the same parampara graced another elaborate commentary ‘ta:tparya chandrika5’ to Ra:ma:nuja’s geeta bhashya, proving any other interpretation to geeta doesn’t hold, but Ra:ma:nuja’s. Just like a chaste wife serving her husband faithfully, all the a:cha:ryas of the parampara served the true intent of the Lord’s words.
0.’the last stop’ means, the ultimate place to get rid of confusions about the absolute truth, but to experience the absolute truth this is only a starting point. One can have higher experiences in alwars’ divya prabandas, itiha:sas(historical recordings), and pura:nas(ancient history) of vedic literature
1. guru parampara: The undeviated knowledge transmitting chain through an unbroken succession of teacher student relationship starting from God Himself
2. bha:shyam: commentary
3. geeta:rtha sangraha: The Comprehensive Purport of ‘geeta’
4. a:cha:rya: a: Preceptor representing guru parampara
5. ta:tparya chandrika: Pleasant moonlight like purport
6. HH: His Holiness
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A humble attempt
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| A humble attempt is made to present the commentary of Bhagavad geeta in English in the footsteps of those great a:charyas, as a sister project of ‘antaryami’. The present work is completely based on HH6 pedda jeeyar swami’s ta:tparya chandrika based commentary on bhagavadgeeta in telugu. Let us make our lives fruitful by taking refuge of the most munificent message given by Lord Krishna to mankind.
“jai Sri: Ra:ma:nuja” “Jai Sri: Krishna” “jai Sri: Bhagavad geeta”
Right now, the first two chapters have been translated along with slokas, word-to-word meanings, and purport.
In addition to this, you will find Geeta:rtha Sangraha by Sri Yamunacharya, Chtuslo:ki by SrI:mati Kousalya ra:ma:nuja da:si, Hymns of prayers (audio version as well) that must be recited before reading Srimad Bhagavadgeeta
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Substance of Bhagavadgeeta
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It is the essence of the MahAbhAratha. If the MahAbhAratha is churned with knowledge, we get two treasures – one is the Bhagavadgeeta and the other being Vishnu SahasranAma. The former was preached by the Lord. The latter was taught by BhIshma which the Lord Himself listened with delight. The Gita is the eternal teaching of the Lord as kRuShNa.
- The answers to the five important questions like
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- What are the means to attain the Lord?
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- What is salvation or Moksha?
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The Gita picks significance in that it has the spiritual science revealed by the Master of the science – the Lord Himself. So it rules over other texts in importance. It is no exaggeration that the Gita is the ultimate scripture on the Vedantic system, and it is an irrefutable fact. Hence it is no surprise that it springs out spontaneously on everyone’s lips-scholars to laymen that it is the Gita the prime Holy Scripture of the Vedanta Read More>>
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Sloka of the day...
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Following is the "Sloka of the day" : Sloka 12 of Chapter 2
na tvEvAham jAtu nAsam na tvam nEmE janAdhipA: |
na chaiva na bhaviShyAma: sarvE vayamata: param || |
Translation:
" The ParamAtma that is me , the jeevatma that is you and several other jeevatmas that are souls were never non-existent at any point of time in the past , neither will we become non-existent at any time in the future .( This is established from the authority of the scriptures.)" Read More>>
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