Books By Rajaji - Bhaja Govindam

Kulapati's Preface	Author
Publisher's Preface regarding this Book" Bhagavad Gita". [More....]	CHAKRAVARTI Rajagopalachari popularly known as "Rajaji" or "C.R", as a great patriot astute politician and incisive thinker. [More....]
Bhaja Govindam	Verse - 1
Sri Sankara crossed the ocean of Maya as easily as one steps over a small irrigation channel in the field. [More....	Our People have heard the "Bhaja Govindam" song and they know it. It is not new to them. [More....]
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After first warning against the desire for mere scholarship forgetful of God, and for the renown that it brings, Sri Sankara next speaks about the desire to amass wealth. [More....]	In the third, stanza Sri Sankara speaks about lust. [More....]
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After uttering a warning in the first three stanzas against the arrogance of knowledge, the lure of wealth and of sex.,, [More....]	"Why do you detract from the joys of life by such statements?" asks the fool in his simplicity: [More....]
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"What you say about kinsmen may be true; but take my wife who is with me here" [More....]	Childhood passes away in [lay. Thoughts of love engage youth and the mind goes after maidens. [More....]
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Who is your beloved? Who is your son? Very strange is this family bond. [More....]	Association with good and enlightened men provides occasion for the practice of withdrawal from desire and attachment. [More....]
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The sorrows of life will cease of their own accord upon the dawn of the knowledge of the self. [More....]	Do not be proud of your youth and health. Do not be vai and say.,, [More....]
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Let wordly life be an appearance or a reality. Sri Sankara does not object to our enjoying life. [More....]	Is there none to advise you? Even imminent, why do you turn your thoughts to your wife and to your possessions? [More....]
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The ascetic with the matted locks, the man with shaven head, he who has pulled out his hair.,, [More....]	Giving up or renunciation, is the substance of Sanyasa. [More....]
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Sitting before the fire or with the sun at the back, sleeping at night with knee tucked under the chin.,, [More....]	All religions and creeds stress the need for true knowledge and wisdom. [More....]
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Happiness is the internal state of the mind. It does not reside in an external object or in the physical body. [More....]	Pleasure is a state of the mind. The satisfaction springing from sense - enjoyment is pleasure of one kind. [More....]
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A little study of the Bhagavad Gita, drinking a drop of Ganga water. [More....]	Let us beg for His grace: he will surely protect us. he will surely take us across the ocean of births and deaths. [More....]
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Sri Sankara sings of god-intoxication and the bliss of the men that have received the light. [More....]	We sleep in the night and dream. In the dream we experience many hardships and cares. More....]
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With whom do you get angry? Why do you grieve in vain imagining enmity in your heart? [More....]	Don't think in terms of friend or foe; or brother or cousin. Don't waste your energy in enmity or friendship. [More....]
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Free yourself from lust, anger, greed and delusion. mediate on who you are. Ask of yourself..... [More....]	Without true knowledge, life in this world so much mixed with sorrow will become a hell. [More....]
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Of all the delusions that hold sway over man, that which makes for his greatest undoing is the sex craving. [More....]	After briefly referring to ruining oneself by going in quest of sexual enjoyment, Sri Sankara speaks about the craving to acquire wealth. [More....]
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Regulated breathing and sense control, discrimination of values between the eternal and the transient, japa and meditation sinking the conscious into the unconscious. [More....]	This is the last verse of the Bhaja Govindam hymn of Sri Sankara. Our body and heart are the temple of God. [More....]