The Yoga of Reflection/Wednesday Sangas

The Yoga of Reflection

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Last Wednesday, Srila Dhanurdhara Swami finished the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. He is starting a new sanga series called The Yoga of Reflection with Mahamuni dasa. Each week Maharaja will discuss a particular philosophical point in the sastra from different angles. He will start with key themes from the Bhagavad-gita. After expounding on the point under discussion, Maharaja will discuss the point in depth with Mahamuni and then open the discussion for others.
This Wednesday the discussion will be from Chapter One in the Gita, “Dharma and Distress.”

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6) Priyatama: The Most Beloved/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Sunday Sangas

Brihad Bhagavatamrta Part 1 Chapter 6 Texts 9

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Brihad Bhagavatamrta
Part 1 Chapter 6 Text 9

tusnim-bhutas ca te sarve
vartamanah sa-vismayam
tatra sri-naradam praptam
aiksantapurva-cestitam

TRANSLATION
All of them sat there silent, in shock. They saw that Sri Narada had arrived and that he was acting strange.

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali/Wednesday Sangas

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Text 3.13

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Text 3.13

etena bhutendriyesu dharma-laksanavastha-parinama vyakhyatah

TRANSLATION
In this way, the change in the characteristics, state, and condition of objects and of the sense is explained.

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6) Priyatama: The Most Beloved/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Sunday Sangas

Brihad Bhagavatamrta Part 1 Chapter 6 Texts 1-3

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Brihad Bhagavatamrta
Part 1 Chapter 6 Texts 1-3

sri-pariksid uvaca
tac chrutvarye maha-prema-
rasavesena yantritah
maha-visnu-priyo vina-
hasto ‘sau vismrtakhilah
sada-dvaravati-vasa-
bhyastantah-pura-vartmana
prabhu-prasada-desantah-
pravesascarya-vahina
purvabhyasad ivabhyasam
prasadasya gato munih
bhutavisto mahonmada-
grhitas ca yathetarah

TRANSLATION
Sri Pariksit said: Noble mother, after hearing Ugrasena’s advice, Narada, the dear devotee of Lord Maha-visnu, became absorbed in the taste of exalted love of God, which seized him in its grip. Forgetting everything else, he started off, vina in hand. Having spent much time before in Dvaraka, Narada automatically took the familiar roads to the center of the city, amazing roads that led to the neighborhood of the Lord’s palaces, and came to the palace of Krsna’s that he knew how to reach from earlier visits. Under the spell of intense transcendental agitation, Narada seemed like an ordinary person haunted by a ghost.

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5) Priya: The Beloved/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Sunday Sangas

Brihad Bhagavatamrta Part 1 Chapter 5 Text 129

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Brihad Bhagavatamrta
Part 1 Chapter 5 Text 129

yathaham prarthya tat-sanga-
sthitim napnomi karhicit
tan-maha-labhato hino
‘satyaya rajya-raksaya

TRANSLATION
In contrast, despite my begging to stay in Krsna’s company, I never obtain that blessing. I am deprived of that achievement because of my degraded occupation of protecting the kingdom.

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Text 3.10

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Text 3.10

tasya prasanta-vahita samskarat

TRANSLATION
The mind’s undisturbed flow occurs due to samskaras.

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5) Priya: The Beloved/Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta/Part 1: Finding the Essence of the Supreme Lord's Mercy/Sunday Sangas

Brihad Bhagavatamrta Part 1 Chapter 5 Text 118

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Brihad Bhagavatamrta
Part 1 Chapter 5 Text 118

na janimah kada kutra
punar esa vrajed iti
uddhavo nityam abhyarne
nivasan sevate prabhum

TRANSLATION
We cannot be sure when He might go somewhere else. But Uddhava is always by His side, serving Lorda Krsna, his master, and residing with Him.

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Text 3.9

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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Text 3.9

vyutthana-nirodha-samskarayor abhibhava-pradurbhavau nirodha-
ksana-cittanvayo nirodha-parinamah

TRANSLATION
The state of restraint, nirodha, is when there is a disappearance of outgoing [i.e. worldy] samskaras and the appearance of restraining samskaras. These emerge in the mind at the moment of restraint.

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Brihad Bhagavatamrta Part 1 Chapter 5 Text 113

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Brihad Bhagavatamrta
Part 1 Chapter 5 Text 113

jita-vak-pati-naipunya
yad idam nad tvayoditam
tad asambhavitam na syad
yadavendra-prabhavatah

TRANSLATION
You can defeat the wit of even Brhama, the master of speech. And so, by the power of our Lord Yadavendra, what you have said to us cannot be untrue.

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