Bhagawad Gita - Chapter 8. Lectures delivered at Chinmaya Mission Boston Newton Chapter

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CHINMAYAMISSIONBOSTON
The Holy Geeta – The Divine Song
Chapter 8
April, 2015

2. Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman
• What is Brahman?
• Who attains Brahman?
• Cosmology – Creation and destruction of Universe

3. Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman
Arjuna asks – “O Supreme Person
• What is meant by Brahman?
• What is Adhyatma?
• What is Karma?
• What is Adhibuta?
• What is Adhidhaiva?
• What is Adhiyajna?
• How is he situated in the body?
• What happens to you at the time of death?” [1-2]

4. Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman
• Brahman
• Adhyatma
• Karma
• Adhibuta
• Adhidaiva
• Adhiyagna
• Supreme Imperishable
• Nature of Individual Self
• That action which brings
about the birth and
growth of things
• Fallible existence
• Supreme existence
• Lord of sacrifice within
the body

5. Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman
At the time of death, a person who relinquishes his body,
remembering me alone, attains my nature. Of this there is no
doubt. [5]
Whatever state of being a person remembers at the time of
relinquishing the body, that state he will attain, being
absorbed in its thought. [6]
Therefore, remember me at all times and fight. With your
mind and intellect fixed on me, you shall come to me without
doubt. [7]
A person who fixes his mind in yoga practice, without
deviation, meditating on the divine Supreme Person, attains
him. [8]

6. Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman
Reaching me, these greatest souls never again experience
birth in this temporal abode of misery for they have attained
ultimate perfection [15]

7. Chapter 8 – Story of Jada Bharata (Srimad Bhagavatam – Fifth Canto)

8. Chapter 8 – Story of Jada Bharata (Srimad Bhagavatam – Fifth Canto)

9. Chapter 8 – Story of Ajamila (Srimad Bhagavatam – Sixth Canto)

10. Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman
Those who know that the day of Brahma lasts for 1000
yugas, and that is night lasts for a 1000 yugas, know what
day and night are [17]
With the arrival of the day of Brahma all things come forth
from the unmanifest state; with the arrival of Brahma’s night
they are reabsorbed into that known as the unmanifest state
[18]
Having come into being, O Partha, the multitude of creatures
is helplessly reabsorbed with the arrival of Brahma’s night,
and they again come into being with the arrival of his day
[19]

11. Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman
However, higher than this unmanifest is another eternal
unmanifest, which does not perish, when created things
perish [20]

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13. Chapter 8 – The Imperishable Brahman
Those who know Brahma and depart during fire, light, day,
the bright lunar fortnight, and the six months of the Sun’s
northern solstice go to Brahman [24]
The Yogi who departs during smoke, night, the dark lunar
fortnight, and the Sun’s six month southern solstice attains
the lunar light and returns [25]
These two well known paths of this world, that of light
(without attachment) and that of darkness (with
attachment) are considered primeval. By one, one does not
return, by the other one returns [26]