Winning the Battle of Life (Kurukshetra Within Me) - Part - 3 | Swami Smaranananda Giri

Yogananda Monastics SRF YSS Convocation

May 20, 2022 • #Yogananda #Gita #BhagavadGita

This is the third in a series of inspirational talks on the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita as interpreted by Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda in God Talks With Arjuna, the great Guru’s divinely inspired translation of and extensive commentary on this beloved scripture. The speaker is Swami Smaranananda Giri, a long-time sannyasi and current vice-president of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India, the organization founded by Paramahansaji in 1917 to disseminate his Kriya Yoga teachings in India and neighbouring countries. Paramahansa Yogananda (author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi) interpreted the Bhagavad Gita with divine insight, exploring its psychological, spiritual, and metaphysical depths. He revealed the innermost essence of this majestic scripture while presenting an enlightening and deeply encouraging guide to who we are, why we were created, and our place and purpose in the vast cosmic scheme of things. In the previous two talks in this series (available on YouTube), Swamiji had introduced the book God Talks With Arjuna and elaborated on Paramahansaji's commentary on the first three Slokas. In this talk, he explains Slokas 4, 5, and 6, which describe the spiritual soldiers in the cerebrospinal centres — devotion, spiritual memory, discriminative intelligence, pranayama, and others that assist a devotee in his inner battle of Kurukshetra. These metaphysical soldiers, Paramahansaji says: “are the spiritual effects engendered by the devotee’s practice of yoga. They, along with the five principal Pandavas, come to the aid of the yogi to help him battle the evil soldiers of the sense mind.” In his “how-to-live” teachings, Paramahansa Yogananda has given to people of all cultures, races, and creeds the means to free themselves from physical, mental, and spiritual inharmonies — to create for themselves a life of enduring happiness and all-round success. Learn more about Yogoda Satsanga Society of India and the path of Kriya Yoga meditation: https://yssofindia.org If you live in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, or Sri Lanka, you can learn the science of Kriya Yoga by applying for the Yogoda Satsanga Lessons in Self-realization, the home-study course in the science of meditation and art of balanced spiritual living established by Paramahansa Yogananda: https://yssofindia.org/yss-lessons.php Residents of other countries around the world can apply for these same sacred teachings from Self-Realization Fellowship, the international headquarters of Paramahansa Yogananda's spiritual work: https://yogananda.org/lessons To read Paramahansa Yogananda’s “God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita”: http://yssi.org/GTWA, and to read Paramahansa Yogananda’s “Autobiography of a Yogi”: http://yssi.org/AoY *** #HowToLive#YSSSRF#YogodaSatsangaSociety#Yogananda#SelfRealizationFellowship#YogaMeditation#BhagavadGita#Gita *** Words of encouragement by Paramahansa Yoganandaji 0:00 Explanation of the fourth, fifth, and sixth verses 12:20 Metaphysical soldiers which are the spiritual effects gathered by practice of yoga 17:00 The eight components of Patanjali Ashtanga Marg 41:28 Universality of yoga 1:10:55 Recap of verses 4-6 1:21:40