krishnas messages

Lord Krishna’s 67 messages from Bhagavad geetha

1.Since peace and happiness are assured by performing the duty as a yajna to god/divine power/ omnipotent omnipresent power, do the duty as a dharma for attaining supreme peace-(18-62)
2. Always remember that everyone, with whom you are connected for your work, is also the embodiment of the divine power. This will not give you the feeling of animosity towards them. (18-62)
3. No duty should be there, which you feel you cannot perform. If you feel so it is due to your ignorance only. Overcome this attitude and perform your duty. (18-61)
4. Many times due to ignorance, if you are not doing your duty, you may be compelled by the circumstances/ environment to do the same duty or even a worse duty than the original one. Hence do your Dharmic duty whenever it is to be performed. (18- 48)
5. Even with minor negatives present in your dharma, do not give up your duty/dharma. Refine your dharma and perform it with full devotion.(18-48)
6. Performing the duty obtained by one’s own nature, one need not attain sin and he will not loose his name or fame. (18-47)
7. Do the duty undertaken by you with full devotion and also as worship towards the god. Doing your, let it be a pushpanjali.(18- 45)
8. Remember! Some people’s nature may provide them, valor, and fearlessness. Firmness, cleverness, and steadfastness even in a battle
This nature is due to the environment in which he was borne and brought up (18-43)
9.Some people may have a subjugation of mind and senses, enduring hardships for the discharge of one’s sacred duty, eternal internal purity, forgiving the faults of others, straightness of the mind , senses and behaviors, trust and faith, in the opinion of the scholars. This is their nature. Hence remember different people have different nature and temperament. (18-42)
10.There are three type of qualities in each individual and also each every aspect of life. These three qualities are called Sathwika, Rajasika, and Tamasika. (from various stanzas of chapter 17 & 18)
11. The nature of people , the food, the work, the result of the work, the route of the work, the aim of the work, the mentality of the persons, the happiness/or enjoyment, the decisions all can belong to any one of these three classes saathiva, rajasika or thamasika. Hence while doing your duty remember that, there can be one of the three types/ or mixed nature/ quality, can be in your pathway (various messages from chapters 17&18)
12.The saatwika qualities of different items are : Food that promote longtivity,intelligence, vigor,, health, happiness, and cheerfulness, and which are sweet, bland, substantial, and naturally agreeable are saatwik food(17-8).Doing the sacrifice expecting no return is satwika sacrifice (17-12). Worshiping the divine power, respecting elders and wise men , keeping purity, straigtforwardness, continence, and harfulness and the bodily satwika thapasya (penance) (18-15). Doing our duty as Dharma without attachment is known as satwika karma (18-9) . The action which is ordained as per the dharma which is not accompanied by the feeling of doership, and has been done without any partiality or prejudice and it is done without seeking the return or reward is the satwika action (18-23). One who does that action free from attachment, endowed with firmness and vigour, unswayed by success and failures, is the satwika doer (18-26).
The satwika intellect is the one which determines the pathof activity and renunciation, what should be done and what should not be done, what is fear and what is fearlessness, what is bondage and what is liberation (18-32) the unwavering firmness in making a decision for a positive mission is saatwika firmness (18-33) , Try to get yourselves elevated from the rasika level or thamasika level to satwika level in all the above.
13. Desire anger and greed should be reduced to the level of nil. They are called the doors to hell(16-21)
14. You are always dragged towards the senses of hearing, sight , taste, and smell as well they influence your mind. Control the desire ansd senses (15-9)
15 Both the cause and instrument are the products of the nature. Hence things are happening due to the fact that nature has decided that it should happen, Hence analyse the situation before reacting(13-20)
16 Get yourselves elevated into the these qualifications: absence of pride, freedom from hypocrisy, non-violence, forbearance, straitness of body, speech and mind, devout service of the preceptor, internal and external purity, steadfasness of the mind and control of body, mind and senses, dispassion towards the object of enjoyment of this world and the next and also absence of egotism, pondering again and again on the pain and evils inherent in birth death, old age and diseases, absence of over attachment, equipoise of mind towards both favorable and unfavorable circumstances, unflicting devotion towards the divine poer. (13/7-11)
17.He who is alike to friends and foes, as well as to honor and ignominy, who remains balanced in heat and cold, pleasure and pain , and all other contrary experiences in the life and is free from over attachment, and he who takes the praise and reproach alike and is given to contemplation and contentment with any means of subsistence whatsoever entertaining no sense of attachment in respect of what is said to be mine and full devotion in dharma, he is the ideal manager (12-19)
18. He who never rejoices or hates, nor grieves, nor desires and who renounces both good and even action and is fullof devotions on dharma is the best person considered to manage the sitation (12-17)
19.He who is malice towards other, friendly and compassionate, rid of the feeling that “I am” and ‘mine’, balanced in joy and sorrow forgiving by nature , ever contented and mentally united with the dharma, and surrendered the mind to the ultimate truth and dharma is an ideal person. (12-13&14)
20.These are divine qualities required for peace in life. Reasons for doing things, right knowledge, unclouded understanding, forbearance, fear and fearlessness, non-violence, equanimity, contentment, asterity, charity, fame, and obloquy (10-4&5)
21.The subsequent spirit is rooted in the knowledge of the self controlled man whose mind is perfectly serene in the midest of many contradictions like sorrow &joy , success and failures, heat & cold , happiness and unhappiness, etc.(6-7)
22. One’s own self is the friend and one’s own self is is his enemy also. Hence properly treat and give training your self for facing the positives and negatives in the life (6-6).
23.One should liveoneself by one’s own efforts and should not degrade oneself, for ones own self is one’s own enemy (6-5)
24.Remember that the wise look with same eye on a scholar, endowed with the learning and culture, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a priah because all are the embodiment of the divine power.(5-18)
25.The light of knowledge should kill darkness of ignorance The light of the knowledge is to be made brighter with that of supreme knowledge (5-16)
26. Once you have realized the ultimate truth of life, you can attain the level of a karma yogi who perform action only with the senses,intellect and body as well, withdrawing the feeling of mine inrespect of the action and shaking of the attachment. (5-11)
27. Doing the duty as part of the dharma, one will not incur the sin, whatever he has to do.(5-10)
28. One is a karma yogi or jnaana yogi, ultimate truth remains the same that everyone has to perform the drama as his duty.Both karma yogi and jaana yogi ultimately reach the same point (5-4)
29.Those who have doubts in everything, there is no life here or in any other world.Hence have faith in yourself, in others and also on what we are doing.(4-40)
30 he who has mastered the senses and has purified himself with the knowledge of ultimate truth, and he who performs his dharma can attain supreme peace where ever heis (4-39)
31.There is no purifier as great as knowledge, he who has attained purity of heart through a prolonged practice of karmayoga/devotion in his work, he attains the ultimate happiness through peace .(4-38)
32. Get the correct knowledge or advice from those who has/ have it. Then lead yourself through that correct pathway.(4-34)
33.Sacrifice through knowledge is superior to the sacrifice performed with material things. All actions without exception culminate in knowledge. The knowledge is the experience of that karma (4-33)
34. Self discipline/ control is the greatest sacrifice one can follow through controlling our mind and senses (4-26)
35.Get oneself, self disciplined in success and failures, joy and sorrow ,etc because they are part of life .controlling the mind to face these duals.(4-22)
36.Whatever action is required perform it, whatever inaction is required follow that. In some places you will have to perform action, some other places action is to be performed through inaction.(4-18)
37. The truth about action must be known and the truth about inaction must be known. And also the truth about inaction must be known. Rationally analyze each and every aspect and then only act (4-17)
38 It is always to be remembered that nature will follow the path of righteousness. For the protection of virtuous, for the extirpation of evil- doers, and for establishing dharma on a firm footing, the nature will follow the correct pathway whenever it is required. Nature performs its duty through noble people(4-8)
39. Your ignorance should never cover the true knowledge that you are expected to have on all issues you are facing. Know about the truth through acquired knowledge then perform your duty.(3-38)
40.One’s only duty through devoid though devoid of merits, is preferable to the duty of another well performed, even death in the performance of one’s own duty brings blessedness. As each and every one is expected to perform their duty mixing all duties can lead to collapse of the society.(3-35)
41. Attraction and repulsions, are rooted in senses, anew one should never be allowed to sway himself by the senses, because they are the enemies standing in the way of redemption (3-34)
42 .You should always remember that for whatever a great man/ leader does that very thing other men also will follow, whatever standard he sets up, the generality of men follow the same. Hence do the right thing and set the right precedence / model for others, always (3-21)
43.Do all the duty with minimum attachment so that its success and failures will not drag you to sorrow . You can keep the stability of the mind(3-19)
44. Every minute, every thing/ even the universe (whether it is an atom, the sun, the wind or cloud or tree or animal) is doing its duty.
Hence do your duty as it is expected from you. (3-8)
45.Controlling the senses should be inwardly, merely showing that you are controlling the senses outwardly is of no use and he is a hypocrite(3-6)
46.Remember that each and every living and nonliving being has to perform action/duty. None can exist without performing duty.Hence you also have to perform your duty (3-5)
47.One cannot attain freedom from action without entering into action (that is without acting- doing their duty) Nor does he reach perfection merely by ceasing to act (3-4).By becoming a sanyasi, himself is not undertaking his mission
48. there are two types of action/karma in the world. Learning and teaching and teaching which is philosophy known as sankya yoga which is the first type of action and the second type of action is doing mechanicl work which is karma yoga.The work with intelligence and work with body are the karma. (3-3)
49.With the attainment of the placidity of mind, all the sorrows come to an end and the intellect of such a person of tranquil mind soon withdrawing itself from allsides becomes firmly established on the mission and duty that is dharma.(2-65)
50.The one who is cotinously dwelling inn the sense objects develops attachment for these materials, from the desire and the desire
Of getting the material for enjoyment ensures the anger (when the fulfillment does not occur). From that anger arises infaltation from infaltation confusion of memory, from the confustion or the memory loss, the loss of rational thinking and from that arises the complete ruin of the total aim of life and loss of dharma. Hence one should reduce the attachment or over attachment towards any thing (2-62,63)
51. Whenever you are dragged towards an adharmic duty or whenever your senses are dragged towards a negative, follow the example of tortoise. The tortoise draws its lims from all direction, like that you have to withdraw the senses from the issues (2-58)
52.The one who could attain placidity remains unperturbed amid sorrows, who remains unexcited over pleasures and who keeps minimum attachnment, no anger, and no fear, he can attain everything (2-57)
53. Remember your responsibility is your doing the duty which you have undertaken by yourself, or the society has given to you.Do not worry very much whether the duty will culminate in success or failure whether the duty and result will lead to appreciation or criticism (2-47)
54.Keep the happy and unhappy experiences at a stabilized vision and mission level. Whether profit or loss, success or failure, pleasure or pain , hard or soft, happy or unhappy. Keep in memory that these pairs are part of every one’s life and go ahead in doing the dharmic duty undertaken by you (2-38)
55.While doing the duty, if you are facing failures console by thinking that you have done your duty to the best of your capacity and if it is a sccess, enjoy the fruit of success (2-37)
56.If you are not doing your duty, the society will say that you are a coward, and failing in doing the duty, others will use all the unbecoming bad words about you.For any self respecting persons, it will be a terrible experience, worse than death. (235,36)
57. infamy brought to a man enjoying popular esteem is worse than death.Hence do the dharmic duty everywhere and do not withdraw from the responsibility bestowed upon you by the society. (2-34)
58.Considering the duty as the utmost dharma for a person of your stature, do not keep away from performing that duty. A great person if keeps away from dharma, it will quote that yu have done that way. (2-31)
59.The life which is something which cannot be defined and itself is something which cannot be clearly explained also. Before the birth and after the death what is the status of the jeevatma is unknown. But the known part is during the living process/life you know you are living. Utilize it-the time energy and all whatever is available for you – to the best possible level (2-26)
60. Look deep into various aspects of life. You can experience that many people see the total life as something wonderful and some he hear the wonderful experience about the life. But none knows exactly what ultimate reality/fact in life is. But one thing is clear we have to do our duty in this life. (2-29)
61. All having born will have to die one day. Before the last day of your life comes, the duty expected from you should be performed. Death is inevitable for all living beings. Hence do not worry much about the death also (2-27)
62Human being is built with the soul in the material body. That soul is something which cannot be killed, or perished. That is one existing for ever. That is present everywhere at all times. Hence the universal energy expects you to perform your duty. (2-25)
63.do not worry much about any thing, things will come and go .think seriously and act cautiously. Great scholars will never feel sad about anything which inevitably is to be performed. (2-25)
64. wherever you are, consider, consider it is kurukhetra (means working place) .Perform your duty as though your are in dharma
Kshetra ( means the place where dharma is to be performed ) with utmost sincerity and devotion
65. Whosoever you are, know deep abut your dharma and perform your duty with utmost sincererity and devotion
66. whatsoever you are keep the rules and guidance given by the dharma while doing your duty.
67. Do not worry very much about the success and failure profit and loss, happy or unhappy, ups and owns small or big, appreciation or criticism , difficult or easy, hot or cold, every aspect of these opposites or part of life. As long as you are on the surface of the globe earth keep yourself as model for other karma yogis, to follow