47. Bhagavad Gita I Chapter 4 Verses 11-13 I Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 11-13, from the fourth 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 4, Verse 11:
ये यथा मां प्रपद्यन्ते तांस्तथैव भजाम्यहम् |
मम वर्त्मानुवर्तन्ते मनुष्या: पार्थ सर्वश: || 11||
ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāns tathaiva bhajāmyaham
mama vartmānuvartante manuṣhyāḥ pārtha sarvaśhaḥ
🔴 Whatsoever the manner in which they approach Me, in that very manner I resort to them; for, O Arjuna! on all sides, men tread paths leading to Me.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 12:
काङ् क्षन्त: कर्मणां सिद्धिं यजन्त इह देवता: |
क्षिप्रं हि मानुषे लोके सिद्धिर्भवति कर्मजा || 12||
kāṅkṣhantaḥ karmaṇāṁ siddhiṁ yajanta iha devatāḥ
kṣhipraṁ hi mānuṣhe loke siddhir bhavati karmajā
🔴 People in the world offer sacrifices to gods, desiring the success of their works. For, in this human world, quick is the success born of works.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 4, Verse 13:
चातुर्वर्ण्यं मया सृष्टं गुणकर्मविभागश: |
तस्य कर्तारमपि मां विद्ध्यकर्तारमव्ययम् || 13||
chātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛiṣhṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśhaḥ
tasya kartāram api māṁ viddhyakartāram avyayam
🔴 The fourfold class-system according to the divisions of Prakrti's constituents and works, has been ordained by Me. Though I am its author, know Me to be the immutable non-agent.

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[varshapendse]

Swamiji Namaskaar! I SO MUCH enjoying listening to you!!! Million thanks to the Vedanta New York Archives for making these recordings available to us. Looking forward to listen to Swamiji's commentary on all 18 chapters.

[beingspiritual]

Clear, loud and sweet voice Swamiji.i keep listening every day.thank you

[anagha.aniruddha]

हरी: ऊॅं🙏🏻

Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji 🙏🏻

[ratnadeepbhattacharjee]

How beautifully, Swamiji explained the real meaning of varna ashrama or caste system, not a birth based system, but a system based on attributes and capabilities....Thankyou, its time people understand this, then India can rise to her

[ksoldestaccount]

The 51:57 the simple hardworker souls are the backbone of any ashram

[archanamahato]

Pranams! Please upload the next lectures as soon as possible. We all are eagerly waiting 🙏

[ksoldestaccount]

54:15 this is the cause of all problems in Indian society

[VS-jxhj]

Bhakthi will fill all voids and it will light the path of our spiritual journey. We can soak in devotion by listening to bhajans and kirthanas. Repeated writing of Rama nama is the way.

[ksoldestaccount]

12:42 the tradition in devout Hindu households to keep collecting deities in the home

[jampuppy]

I have also been anticipating the next series of lectures. I searched and searched, not knowing they were not available yet. Thank you for these. 🙏

[pramilasrinivasansrinivasa]

7:01 what an amazing Truth 🙏
To get, to
When listening to Swami Sarvapriyananda ji Bhagavatgita
Is shining and enlightening the minds 🙏🙏🙏

[Anoop]

Srikrishna says in Bhagvat Gita chapter 4 verse 13 that human beings are categorized into four classes or varnaas. These classes are based on the 3 gunaas, and the corresponding action that each guna prompts us to do. Here the 3 Gunas are Sattava gun, Rajo gun and Thamogun. Srikishna never said that case is by birth but is based on the quality or spiritual level or you can say his/hers level of awareness. Tamo gun character kama (desire), krodha (anger), lobha (greed), Mada (arrogance), moha (delusion), and matsarya (jealousy), bhay( fear). Tamo gun can be compared to entropy( lack of order or randomness) .Sattva gun is unconditional love. Rajas is the driving energy. All living and non living things has these 3 gunas( qualities) . If a person is with his son who they love ( true love is synonym for unconditional) then his sattva guna will be predominant. His Rajas guna will generate the energy in him to do the act in character of the sattva guna. When the same person is encountering a person whom he hates then his tamo gun is in to action and it will act in as much force as he has Rajas gun. Each person should take up those responsibility in the society which is ideal for his composition( of the 3 gunas) . A saatvik person is able to transact higher amount of divine energy and can do a better job to program the dieties and enhance the energy field in temple. They are called brahmins.As you know temple and dieties is like a hospital where healing happens. There is a whole science behind temple architecture and Tantra. Those who has composition is saatvik but predominantly rajas has the drive and energy to do administration and they are called shaktriyas. Vayshyas has more tamas than satva and has moderate rajas. Shudra is predominantly tamas. These 3 gunas are associated with the vibrations of the energy body which inhabits the physical body. A person who is 100% saatvic cannot sustain in human body and they will transcend in to higher planes of existence, so a balancing composition is necessary for us to be in this body and live in the physical plane. It is similar to how electrons, neutrons and protons balance an atom. There are many planes of existence based on frequency of vibration of energy. A society is like an organism where each body part has its own function. A person in Sanathan dharma is like an organ in an organism and he/she fits himself in to appropriate job. A person who cleans drainage is no inferior to a person assigned to a job in temple. Over period of time when there came wealth imbalance, nepotism parents wanted their kids to have privilege over the others and the caste system got linked to lineage or by birth so that people can still hold on to the privileges they enjoy and pas it own to their children without any merit . This is not an easy topic to understand.

[ksoldestaccount]

36:42 such a wise thing at the height of the Cold War!

[kausikgoswami]

Swamiji.. eagerly awaiting the next set of verses...

[ksoldestaccount]

17:01 saying the modern sense of gods here in this world ... money work fame and power and pleasure and they give their results immediately but ultimately misery

[ksoldestaccount]

19:02 the uneasiness when he said everything here for God. And the whole fashion of our age .... wowww! So deep Swamiji. This is our trend to be uneasy that all this world is for God, they think that it's like the medieval ages he realized by looking their expressions. Then he saw smiles on their faces. But our trend is a mistake and a miserable trend.

[ksoldestaccount]

27:00 these verses are the Advaitic standpoint on work

[ksoldestaccount]

1:00:11 doubts of religious help and bhakti sense getting doubts about offering work to God

[ksoldestaccount]

6:03 for worldly goals ... this is the psychological support that people need in life sir talks about

[ksoldestaccount]

25:41 monks in some and bears in others