We should try to remember the name of each chapter so then we can understand what it is all about.
In this chapter Arjuna gives us his role as a Kstariya warrior and also his friend and he talks about he wants to be his disciple. There is a change in the rasas - from Guru to a disciple. Chapter 2 is a little more technical - lot of gyana. We should hence pay careful attention to SP's purports. It is the process of transmigration. He finally ends with the characteristics of a self realized person. Connection between chapter 1 and chapter 2 - 1st chapter doubts and lots of reasons to avoid fighting. He shows lots of doubts and Krsna in chapter 2 answers these doubts. We also see Arjuna is getting very confused. His relations towards Krsna hence changes completely. Burijan prabhu's book divides chapter 2 into 5 parts. Chapter 2 is more about Jyana yoga and some parts of Karma Yoga.
1-10 : Arjuna continues to give his last reason and surrenders to Krsna.
11-30 - Krsna speaks for the first time. He gives him the technical knowledge about the spirit soul. He directly or indirectly tells Arjuna to fight.
31-38: Counters Arjuna's reasons to not fight. Lots of ways he gives to counter his points. Karma kanda section
39-53: Buddhi Yoga. Understand the knowledge and apply that knowledge. How I can fight and not accumulate any reactions. Niskam karma yoga. Not be attached to the outcome of the battle. Just fight for the pleasure of Krsna and no reactions.
54-72: How one who works in buddhi yoga can get samadhi - All these yogas means to be connected to the Supreme then we are always situated in KC with body, mind and soul.
2 Chapters in BG 2 and 18 chapters are the longest and chapter 18 has the longest verses.
V1: Krsna has waited all this time to now speak to Krsna. Madhusudhana refers to Krsna. Krsna killed the Madhusudhana demon - kill the demon of misunderstanding that had overtaken him in the discharge of his duty. At this point Dhirtarastra is very happy but sanjaya says Krsna now says to tell him it's not done yet but just the beginning.
V2: Krsna knows Arjuna is coming from a very exalted lineage - not ordinary personality. Guided by the proper Ksatriya code and principles. Hence he says these statements - impurities have come upon you. You should know the value of life. When Ksatriya when they fight and die go to the higher planets and he is directly referring to Arjuna. Lot of sarcasam and ridicules Arjuna in these verses.
Bhagavan = Supreme Personality of Godhead = Krsna. 3 aspects of Krsna = Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan; example of the Sun is given here. This paragraph is very important. Analogy of the 3 features of Krsna with Sun. Please learn the next paragraph also very nicesly. Prabhuji has given examples of Krsna to be full in all 6 opulences.
Aim of Life - to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead and to go back to Godhead and if Krsna wants us to come back then we will go back to serve Krsna but if our Spiritual Master says we need to stick around and preach then we preach. Not bound by the material nature.
V3: It;s important how the names are being used to address each other. Son of Prtha - Kunti is related to Krsna, sister of Vasudeva. So you are related to me and we come from such a pious background, how can you behave like this. If someone can't behave according to their status then it's not good.
V4: O killer of Madhu, again brings back point about superiors. It is the ettiquitte in those days that you don't fight with your superiors but give respect to them.
V5: Again looks at dharma shastra (religious) vs artha shastra (political). Killing of an agressor vs fighting with superiors. Religious principles says you forgive - tolerate more than react. Political principles you need to rule in the benefit of the person you has done right vs wrong. Arjuna is thinking he rather practice Dharma Shastra vs Artha Shastra but that is wrong as he is a Ksatriya and not a brahmana to go out and beg and hence he says he would rather go and beg like a mendicant in the street begging for survival than to kill his Guru and Grandfather to get a kingdom.
V6: So here he is confused conquering them or getting conquered by them. If he killed his brother the Ksatriyas what kind of enjoyment is there to live in a kingdom when there is nobody to enjoy with. Hence KC says we need to make sound judgments so we can please Krsna more and more and not be selfish to please our sense pleasures. He is saying many times that he wants to beg and live shows that he has detachment and he keeps turning to Krsna to show us that we should also keep turning to our Spiritual Master for guidance whenever we have questions. If senses are not controlled then we won't be able to understand the knowledge we read, otherwise it will be just reading, appreciating but not applying it in our daily lives. The most important thing about reading BG is to apply it to our daily lives and that is only possible by controlling the senses.
V7: This is good intelligence. The fact that he accepts that he is lost and can't make good decision and he turns to the person who has lot of faith in Krsna and he surrenders to him to ask what should I do. Same way we should turn to our Spiritual Master and not have our big egos that we can make our best decision ourselves. We should surrender to an authority and a well wisher. We should very carefully see who is our well wisher so we can share our problems, our questions so they can help us get out of these material life. On our own we won't be able to get out of this material life. Everybody in this material life is perplexed. We are always perplexed. But because we are covered we are not able to realize this. Here he is saying I'm not your friend but your disciple and now you show me the path. This is not easy. Even after initiation sometimes we don't want to listen to our Spiritual Master and just keep doing what we want to do. Kripanas - We should consider our kids, wife are guests of Krsna and we should take care of them but not have overly affection for them.
V8: He says nobody can help him at this stage. Even if he gets kingdom or wealth he won't be happy. So very nicely he is approaching Krsna and in the same way we need to approach the SM and how they can help us. In general we should approach them for spiritual matters and not a lot for material problems. We need to know the science of Krsna and only then we can help any person. He quotes a verse from CC.Anyone can preach and all we need to know who is Krsna and how can we approach him. Hence we need to be properly situated with shastras so we can always use it to help us in our preaching purposes. Aim is to become a Uttama Adhikari to guide other people. Key is to follow in the footsteps of a pure devotee like we are following in the footsteps of SP - exactly what he wants to do we are doing it and because we are sincerely following his instructions we will also become pure. In time all our bad qualities will go away and we will be properly situated in KC. To solve his problems of KC he is surrendering to Krsna.
V9: He still says he is competent to kill the enemies. Now because he has surrendered to Krsna he will be ready to fight again soon.
In this chapter Arjuna gives us his role as a Kstariya warrior and also his friend and he talks about he wants to be his disciple. There is a change in the rasas - from Guru to a disciple. Chapter 2 is a little more technical - lot of gyana. We should hence pay careful attention to SP's purports. It is the process of transmigration. He finally ends with the characteristics of a self realized person. Connection between chapter 1 and chapter 2 - 1st chapter doubts and lots of reasons to avoid fighting. He shows lots of doubts and Krsna in chapter 2 answers these doubts. We also see Arjuna is getting very confused. His relations towards Krsna hence changes completely. Burijan prabhu's book divides chapter 2 into 5 parts. Chapter 2 is more about Jyana yoga and some parts of Karma Yoga.
1-10 : Arjuna continues to give his last reason and surrenders to Krsna.
11-30 - Krsna speaks for the first time. He gives him the technical knowledge about the spirit soul. He directly or indirectly tells Arjuna to fight.
31-38: Counters Arjuna's reasons to not fight. Lots of ways he gives to counter his points. Karma kanda section
39-53: Buddhi Yoga. Understand the knowledge and apply that knowledge. How I can fight and not accumulate any reactions. Niskam karma yoga. Not be attached to the outcome of the battle. Just fight for the pleasure of Krsna and no reactions.
54-72: How one who works in buddhi yoga can get samadhi - All these yogas means to be connected to the Supreme then we are always situated in KC with body, mind and soul.
2 Chapters in BG 2 and 18 chapters are the longest and chapter 18 has the longest verses.
V1: Krsna has waited all this time to now speak to Krsna. Madhusudhana refers to Krsna. Krsna killed the Madhusudhana demon - kill the demon of misunderstanding that had overtaken him in the discharge of his duty. At this point Dhirtarastra is very happy but sanjaya says Krsna now says to tell him it's not done yet but just the beginning.
V2: Krsna knows Arjuna is coming from a very exalted lineage - not ordinary personality. Guided by the proper Ksatriya code and principles. Hence he says these statements - impurities have come upon you. You should know the value of life. When Ksatriya when they fight and die go to the higher planets and he is directly referring to Arjuna. Lot of sarcasam and ridicules Arjuna in these verses.
Bhagavan = Supreme Personality of Godhead = Krsna. 3 aspects of Krsna = Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan; example of the Sun is given here. This paragraph is very important. Analogy of the 3 features of Krsna with Sun. Please learn the next paragraph also very nicesly. Prabhuji has given examples of Krsna to be full in all 6 opulences.
Aim of Life - to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead and to go back to Godhead and if Krsna wants us to come back then we will go back to serve Krsna but if our Spiritual Master says we need to stick around and preach then we preach. Not bound by the material nature.
V3: It;s important how the names are being used to address each other. Son of Prtha - Kunti is related to Krsna, sister of Vasudeva. So you are related to me and we come from such a pious background, how can you behave like this. If someone can't behave according to their status then it's not good.
V4: O killer of Madhu, again brings back point about superiors. It is the ettiquitte in those days that you don't fight with your superiors but give respect to them.
V5: Again looks at dharma shastra (religious) vs artha shastra (political). Killing of an agressor vs fighting with superiors. Religious principles says you forgive - tolerate more than react. Political principles you need to rule in the benefit of the person you has done right vs wrong. Arjuna is thinking he rather practice Dharma Shastra vs Artha Shastra but that is wrong as he is a Ksatriya and not a brahmana to go out and beg and hence he says he would rather go and beg like a mendicant in the street begging for survival than to kill his Guru and Grandfather to get a kingdom.
V6: So here he is confused conquering them or getting conquered by them. If he killed his brother the Ksatriyas what kind of enjoyment is there to live in a kingdom when there is nobody to enjoy with. Hence KC says we need to make sound judgments so we can please Krsna more and more and not be selfish to please our sense pleasures. He is saying many times that he wants to beg and live shows that he has detachment and he keeps turning to Krsna to show us that we should also keep turning to our Spiritual Master for guidance whenever we have questions. If senses are not controlled then we won't be able to understand the knowledge we read, otherwise it will be just reading, appreciating but not applying it in our daily lives. The most important thing about reading BG is to apply it to our daily lives and that is only possible by controlling the senses.
V7: This is good intelligence. The fact that he accepts that he is lost and can't make good decision and he turns to the person who has lot of faith in Krsna and he surrenders to him to ask what should I do. Same way we should turn to our Spiritual Master and not have our big egos that we can make our best decision ourselves. We should surrender to an authority and a well wisher. We should very carefully see who is our well wisher so we can share our problems, our questions so they can help us get out of these material life. On our own we won't be able to get out of this material life. Everybody in this material life is perplexed. We are always perplexed. But because we are covered we are not able to realize this. Here he is saying I'm not your friend but your disciple and now you show me the path. This is not easy. Even after initiation sometimes we don't want to listen to our Spiritual Master and just keep doing what we want to do. Kripanas - We should consider our kids, wife are guests of Krsna and we should take care of them but not have overly affection for them.
V8: He says nobody can help him at this stage. Even if he gets kingdom or wealth he won't be happy. So very nicely he is approaching Krsna and in the same way we need to approach the SM and how they can help us. In general we should approach them for spiritual matters and not a lot for material problems. We need to know the science of Krsna and only then we can help any person. He quotes a verse from CC.Anyone can preach and all we need to know who is Krsna and how can we approach him. Hence we need to be properly situated with shastras so we can always use it to help us in our preaching purposes. Aim is to become a Uttama Adhikari to guide other people. Key is to follow in the footsteps of a pure devotee like we are following in the footsteps of SP - exactly what he wants to do we are doing it and because we are sincerely following his instructions we will also become pure. In time all our bad qualities will go away and we will be properly situated in KC. To solve his problems of KC he is surrendering to Krsna.
V9: He still says he is competent to kill the enemies. Now because he has surrendered to Krsna he will be ready to fight again soon.
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