Hey sweet souls! This is where you will post your favorite verse from the chapter that we read each day! It'll support us in all feeling UNITED in the process :) Love you all!
So here again at the beginning....this time I am reading from the Ranchor Prime Version....
1:42
So the breakdown of the family makes the very foundation's of community fall apart.
I see this now, everywhere I travel, family foundation is soooo important. Both blood family and especially soul family. All my love beautiful soul family.
18:54 One absorbed in Brahman is full of spiritual joy and no longer laments or desires. Such a person, being equal toward all beings, attains pure devotion for me. 🌸
I am so happy to have completed reading the Bhagavad Gita Talks between the Soul and God. There are times when obstacles get in the way of reading, meditating, chanting; but I must keep moving forward. Sometimes at a different pace, but that's okay. 🌸
14:17 From goodness is born knowledge; from passion comes greed; darkness brings forgetfulness, delusion and ignorance.
14:20 The soul who rises above these three earthly qualities is freed from birth, death, old age and their distresses, and tastes the nectar of eternal life. 🌸
13:18 He is the light of all that shines, beyond the darkness of matter. He is knowledge, the end of knowledge and the goal of knowledge. He dwells in everyone’s heart. 🌸
The blowing of these different conchshells became uproarious, and thus, vibrating both in the sky and on the earth, it shattered the hearts of sons of Dhrtarastra.
So long as we are attached to the World Tree we will continue to wander from branch to branch, not knowing where it begins or ends. But if we give up our attachment, following Krishna’s repeated advice throughout the Gita—neither clinging to the tree nor pushing it away—it will cease to bind us and we will be able to cut down its illusory form.
12:13 One who bears no hatred, who is a compassionate friend to all creatures, who is not possessive or selfish, equal in happiness and distress, and forgiving. 🌸
Foods in the mood of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one's existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such nourishing foods are sweet, juicy, fattening, and palatable. Foods that are too bitter, too salty, pungent, dry, and hot are liked by people in the modes of passion. Such foods cause pain, distress, and disease. Food cooked more than three hours before being eaten, which is tasteless, stale, putrid, decomposed, and unclean, is food liked by people in the mode of ignorance.
The splendor of the sun, which dissipates the darkness of this whole world, comes from me. And the splendor of the moon and the splendor of fire are also from me.
How glorious that all this is Krishna nourishing us.
One who bears no hatred, who is a compassionate friend to all creatures, who is not possessive or selfish, equal in happiness and distress, and forgiving.
The spiritual seeker is sometimes blessed with a moment in which the veil is lifted, allowing a glimpse of what lies beyond the surface of normal life. These rare moments on the spiritual journey inspire faith and conviction. Yet they cannot be sustained. Each of us must find in our everyday life the presence of God. As Krishna has said in the sixth chapter, ‘One who sees me everywhere and sees everything in me, never loses me and is never lost to me.’
It's been a bit since I posted my fave verses...
So here again at the beginning....this time I am reading from the Ranchor Prime Version....
1:42
So the breakdown of the family makes the very foundation's of community fall apart.
I see this now, everywhere I travel, family foundation is soooo important. Both blood family and especially soul family. All my love beautiful soul family.
#community #sacred #sagha
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18:54 One absorbed in Brahman is full of spiritual joy and no longer laments or desires. Such a person, being equal toward all beings, attains pure devotion for me. 🌸
I am so happy to have completed reading the Bhagavad Gita Talks between the Soul and God. There are times when obstacles get in the way of reading, meditating, chanting; but I must keep moving forward. Sometimes at a different pace, but that's okay. 🌸
17: 14-16 Three Penances
Penance of the body is to serve God, the devout, the teacher and superiors, and to be clean, simple, chaste and nonviolent. 🌸
Penance of the voice is to speak what is truthful, pleasing, edifying and gentle, and to recite the scriptures. 🌸
Penance of the mind is peacefulness, simplicity, silence, self-control and purity of heart. 🌸
16:24 Therefore be guided in how to live and what to avoid by learning from sacred books, and live in this world by their teachings. 🌸
15:15 I am seated in everyone's heart. From me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. All sacred books lead to me, their knower and creator. 🌸
14:17 From goodness is born knowledge; from passion comes greed; darkness brings forgetfulness, delusion and ignorance.
14:20 The soul who rises above these three earthly qualities is freed from birth, death, old age and their distresses, and tastes the nectar of eternal life. 🌸
13:18 He is the light of all that shines, beyond the darkness of matter. He is knowledge, the end of knowledge and the goal of knowledge. He dwells in everyone’s heart. 🌸
1:20
The blowing of these different conchshells became uproarious, and thus, vibrating both in the sky and on the earth, it shattered the hearts of sons of Dhrtarastra.
18:45
Heroism, power, determination, resourcefulness, courage in battle, generosity, and leadership are the qualities of the Katrina's
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Chapter 16
The greatest love one can show others is to help them reawaken their divine nature, bringing to their lives a vision of truth, hope and joy.
Chapter 15
So long as we are attached to the World Tree we will continue to wander from branch to branch, not knowing where it begins or ends. But if we give up our attachment, following Krishna’s repeated advice throughout the Gita—neither clinging to the tree nor pushing it away—it will cease to bind us and we will be able to cut down its illusory form.
Chapter 14
16: The fruit of work in goodness is purity and more goodness. The fruit of passion is unhappiness. The fruit of darkness is ignorance.
12:13 One who bears no hatred, who is a compassionate friend to all creatures, who is not possessive or selfish, equal in happiness and distress, and forgiving. 🌸
11:8 But you cannot see me with your present eyes, so I give you divine eyes. Behold now my mystic opulence! 🌸
16
He exists within and outside all beings, moving and still. He is far away, beyond the perception of the senses, yet very near.
I love this!
17:8-10
Foods in the mood of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one's existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such nourishing foods are sweet, juicy, fattening, and palatable. Foods that are too bitter, too salty, pungent, dry, and hot are liked by people in the modes of passion. Such foods cause pain, distress, and disease. Food cooked more than three hours before being eaten, which is tasteless, stale, putrid, decomposed, and unclean, is food liked by people in the mode of ignorance.
Chapter 16 is heavy:
Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness, and ignorance-these qualities belong to those of demonic nature, O son of Prtha.
Reading the purport indicates that these are inherited traits. A huge reason why I have become an advocate of conscious birth.
15:12
The splendor of the sun, which dissipates the darkness of this whole world, comes from me. And the splendor of the moon and the splendor of fire are also from me.
How glorious that all this is Krishna nourishing us.
13
One who bears no hatred, who is a compassionate friend to all creatures, who is not possessive or selfish, equal in happiness and distress, and forgiving.
Chapter12 as hard, beautiful but hard.
The spiritual seeker is sometimes blessed with a moment in which the veil is lifted, allowing a glimpse of what lies beyond the surface of normal life. These rare moments on the spiritual journey inspire faith and conviction. Yet they cannot be sustained. Each of us must find in our everyday life the presence of God. As Krishna has said in the sixth chapter, ‘One who sees me everywhere and sees everything in me, never loses me and is never lost to me.’