How Krishna tests Arjuna in the Gita
When giving a class, good teachers want to know how well their students are hearing and understanding. To that end, they sometimes include in their [...]
When giving a class, good teachers want to know how well their students are hearing and understanding. To that end, they sometimes include in their [...]
The Bhagavad-gita’s thirteenth chapter is its most philosophically dense chapter. How is all this philosophy relevant to Arjuna on the battlefield? To understand, we need [...]
At the start of the thirteenth chapter (13.01), Arjuna asks about six specific terms that Krishna hasn’t referred to as a group anywhere earlier. To [...]
Suppose a cricket umpire constantly rules in favor of one side. That’s unfair, we will exclaim. We often extend this expectation of impartiality to all [...]
Some people think of God as demanding, but Krishna’s self-revelation in the Bhagavad-gita shows him to be a very understanding God. A demanding God expects, [...]
In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna demonstrates a remarkable blend of both universality and specificity. Universality in analyzing for Arjuna a broad gamut of paths to choose [...]
Bg 4.35 yaj jñātvā na punar moham evaṁ yāsyasi pāṇḍava yena bhūtāny aśeṣāṇi drakṣyasy ātmany atho mayi Word for word: yat — which; jñātvā — [...]
After the revelation of the universal form in the Bhagavad-gita’s eleventh chapter, Arjuna’s question at the start of the twelfth chapter seems like a non [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 11.28 yathā nadīnāṁ bahavo [...]
In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna describes the death of the assembled warriors using two metaphors: they are like rivers entering into an ocean (11.28) and like [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Next four verse will be [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Before Krishna reveals the forms [...]
Which form of God is most special: universal form, four-handed form or two-handed form? The universal form revealed by Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita’s eleventh chapter [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan After this Krishna will summarize [...]
In the Bhagavad-gita’s eleventh chapter, Krishna states twice that his revelation of the universal form is unprecedented (11.06: adrishta-purvani, 11.47: na drishta-purvam). Arjuna too confirms [...]
In the Bhagavad-gita, the eleventh chapter reveals the kala-rupa, the form of time in its destructive manifestation. Not only did this form depict how almost [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Normally when we go to [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Bg 11.45 adṛṣṭa-pūrvaṁ hṛṣito ’smi [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan Now Krishna will contrast demigod [...]
Toward the end of the Bhagavad-gita’s eleventh chapter, when Krishna’s revelation of his universal form turns too fearsome for Arjuna to bear, Arjuna requests Krishna [...]
Link to purport by A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Transcript of Bhakti-Shastri class on this verse by Chaitanya Charan bhajasva mām is elaborated in [...]