Sri Krishna Jayanti (Janmastami)

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Friday, August 23, 2019

7:30PM – 10:00PM

Meditation, readings by Nome from the Bhagavad Gita, devotional singing of Hari Stuti and bhajans

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Few verses from the book, The Song Celestial, printed by Sri Ramanasramam,  containing verses from the Bhagavad Gita selected and reset by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi:

• Only by devotion without otherness can I be known and truly seen Arjuna, and by Truth even be entered, O Tormentor of the foe. –xi (54)
• To them ever steadfast in loving worship, I give the yoga of understanding by which they attain to Me. –x (10)
• As a well-lit fire consumes its fuel, Arjuna, so does the fire of Knowledge reduce all karma to ashes. –iv (37)
• Brahma-Nirvana is all around those who have freed themselves from anger and desire, who have subdued their minds and have known the Self. –v (26)
• With the senses, mind and intellect subdued, the muni who devoutly seeks Liberation, without desire, fear or wrath, he is, indeed, ever liberated. –v (28)
• At the end of many births, the man of wisdom comes to me, realizing that Vasudeva is all. Such a great soul is very rare to find. –vii (19)
• He by whom the world is not afflicted, and who is not afflicted by the world, who is free from pleasure, anger, fear and anxiety, he is dear to Me. –xii (15)
• For him, however, who rejoices only in the Self, is satisfied with the Self and content with the Self, no action is to be done. –iii (17)
• Satisfied with what comes to him by chance, beyond the pairs of opposites, free from envy, equal in success and failure, he is not bound by his actions. –iv (22)
• The Lord resides in the hearts of all, O Arjuna, revolving all creatures by maya as if mounted on a machine. –xviii (61)
• Surrender unto Him alone with all your being, O Bharata. Through His grace you will attain supreme peace and the eternal abode. –xviii (62)

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Also read:  Janamastami Celebration 2015 in Reflections