30. Bhagavad Gita l Chapter 3 Verses 9-16 l Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 9-16 from the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 9:
यज्ञार्थात्कर्मणोऽन्यत्र लोकोऽयं कर्मबन्धन: |
तदर्थं कर्म कौन्तेय मुक्तसङ्ग: समाचर || 9||
yajñārthāt karmaṇo ’nyatra loko ’yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ
tad-arthaṁ karma kaunteya mukta-saṅgaḥ samāchara
🔴 This world is bound by works other than those done as sacrifice, O son of Kunti. Free from attachment, do work as sacrifice.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 10:
सहयज्ञा: प्रजा: सृष्ट्वा पुरोवाच प्रजापति: |
अनेन प्रसविष्यध्वमेष वोऽस्त्विष्टकामधुक् || 10||
saha-yajñāḥ prajāḥ sṛiṣhṭvā purovācha prajāpatiḥ
anena prasaviṣhyadhvam eṣha vo ’stviṣhṭa-kāma-dhuk
🔴 Bringing forth creatures together with sacrifice, the Lord of creatures said of old: Multiply by means of sacrifice; let it yield whatever you seek.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 11:
देवान्भावयतानेन ते देवा भावयन्तु व: |
परस्परं भावयन्त: श्रेय: परमवाप्स्यथ || 11||
devān bhāvayatānena te devā bhāvayantu vaḥ
parasparaṁ bhāvayantaḥ śhreyaḥ param avāpsyatha
🔴 By means of this sacrifice nourish the Devas; let the Devas nourish you. Mutually nourishing, may you win the supreme good.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 12:
इष्टान्भोगान्हि वो देवा दास्यन्ते यज्ञभाविता: |
तैर्दत्तानप्रदायैभ्यो यो भुङ्क्ते स्तेन एव स: || 12||
iṣhṭān bhogān hi vo devā dāsyante yajña-bhāvitāḥ
tair dattān apradāyaibhyo yo bhuṅkte stena eva saḥ
🔴 The Devas nourished by sacrifices will give you the enjoyments you seek. Verily he is a thief who enjoys without giving back to the Devas (a share of) the gifts given by them.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 13:
यज्ञशिष्टाशिन: सन्तो मुच्यन्ते सर्वकिल्बिषै: |
भुञ्जते ते त्वघं पापा ये पचन्त्यात्मकारणात् || 13||
yajña-śhiṣhṭāśhinaḥ santo muchyante sarva-kilbiṣhaiḥ
bhuñjate te tvaghaṁ pāpā ye pachantyātma-kāraṇāt
🔴Good men partake of what remains after offering sacrifices are liberated from all sins; whereas the sinners who cook for their own sake live on their sins.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 14:
अन्नाद्भवन्ति भूतानि पर्जन्यादन्नसम्भव: |
यज्ञाद्भवति पर्जन्यो यज्ञ: कर्मसमुद्भव: || 14||
annād bhavanti bhūtāni parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ
yajñād bhavati parjanyo yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ
🔴Living beings are born of food; food is produced by rain. Rain is due to sacrifice. Sacrifice is the offspring of work.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 15:
कर्म ब्रह्मोद्भवं विद्धि ब्रह्माक्षरसमुद्भवम् |
तस्मात्सर्वगतं ब्रह्म नित्यं यज्ञे प्रतिष्ठितम् || 15||
karma brahmodbhavaṁ viddhi brahmākṣhara-samudbhavam
tasmāt sarva-gataṁ brahma nityaṁ yajñe pratiṣhṭhitam
🔴Know that this work is born of the Vedas, and that the Vedas are born of the imperishable Reality. Therefore, the all-pervading Veda is eternally rooted in sacrificial work.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 3, Verse 16:
एवं प्रवर्तितं चक्रं नानुवर्तयतीह य: |
अघायुरिन्द्रियारामो मोघं पार्थ स जीवति || 16||
evaṁ pravartitaṁ chakraṁ nānuvartayatīha yaḥ
aghāyur indriyārāmo moghaṁ pārtha sa jīvati
🔴He who fails to conform to the cycle of functions thus established is, Arjuna! a sinner; he revels in the sphere of sense-life; he lives in vain.

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[santudas]

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[FuegoPazzo]

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[mokshajetley]

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[gomathyappu]

Taking everything as Prasad in our lives...that attitude. How profound. !

[mountfitness]

Thank you guru Ji from sydney…
I started listening to who am I first where u showed drawing in black board with examples of gold ornaments and I was so fascinated with it..I tried to understand it’s deep meaning by thinking continuously and started feeling same atman or consciousness in every one even though they look different and with different mind. But from my mind I feel they are all same like me…it’s the first time I was greatly attracted to adwaita and especially to guru sarvapriyananda. Than I started hearing all of katho upanisad from guru Ji which was fantastic, beyond human thoughts and it’s higher knowledge. And the explanation which guru Ji provides gives so much clarity that I finished kathoupanisad and than started vedantasara and finished all of it as well. Now on this chapter of bhagwat geeta and after this I ll go for all lectures and will to understand and keep in intellectual being taught…thanks guru Ji for eye opening knowledge and very glad to learn all knowledge in this life..🕉🙏🙏

[ksoldestaccount]

24:51 everything that comes in your life is prasad, there is nothing you are allowed to irritated about, convert it into worship

[anagha.aniruddha]

हरी: ऊॅं 🙏🏻

Pranam Swami Sarvapriyanandaji 🙏🏻

[shrikrishnamaharaj]

Pranam Swamiji.You are making our lives nice with your enlighting talks.

[lalitarathore]

How lovingly he speaks of Swami ramsukhdas ji

[markjohnson]

Veery helpful and illuminating. Pranam to Swami ji and to Sri Krishna for these teachings. I love the definition of prasada as "divine leftovers".

[lakshmikarle]

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[johnathanedwards]

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[poweruplifewithniteshgurnani]

thank you Swami Ji for your love and wisdom :)

[amritradha]

I depend much on Bhagwath Gita translation in English. Swamyji your explanation are so very clear we are immensely blessed. Hari Aum.

[catiarodrigues]

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[nomadcrows]

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[sayonthonidastuhi]

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[ksoldestaccount]

When listening Sanskrit this insight that all fluent sounds come out silence ... sounds come from silence, universe from He

[ksoldestaccount]

23:13 offer praise and money and all this prasad to God. In prasad, food doesn't matter, God matters. The divine leftovers. Sweet and sour and avoidance, offer it to God.