Bhakti Shastri Chapter 2 v40 - 54

Lecture link - please listen to the class for complete instructions - http://recording.freeconferencecalling.com/mp3/1212152/707497/IA1205_11252014170256970_1178733.mp3

39-53 Krsna says we need to perform dev service and perform duty.

V40: Nothing is lost or dimunished. Example given is Ajamila - earlier he was a very nice brahmachari in KC but was affected by sense gratification. But at the end of his life he was able to chant the name of Krsna - hence there was nothing lost! It is consistent in the vedic scriptures that if you have faith and serve the Lord, then there is no loss. Taking up KC, there is sureity of human birth and guaranteed to get a human life. Please MEMORIZE this verse and this helps to preach to people whey it is important to get into KC as there is no loss.

V41: MEMORIZE this also - This verse affected SP a lot and is very important to ISKCON devotees.Those who are on this path are resolute on this path. Reading this verse he was thinking about how he's going to spread KC all over. SP got affected by reading Visvanath Chakravarti's purport - where he says that both at the beginning stage and also in the perfectional stage all we need to do is follow our Spiritual Master's instruction and follow it.Don't accept anything else even in dreams. Just have faith in Krsna then you will understand that you have no obligations in the material world. Otherwise you have all kinds of obligations. If you are fully KC then you don't need to endeavor for fruitive activities. So how do we know this - we are not the body but are the soul and there is a goal for the soul. The only way is by serving the spiritual master.

V42-43: As people aren't very intelligent, they aren't able to follow the actual meaning of the vedas. They just take the sense enjoyment part of the vedas and hence aren't very intelligent. About 95% of the vedas only talk about Karma kanda aspect - how to lead a good life, how to enjoy life all according to scriptural injunctions. These are all knowledge but not knowledge to get out of life and death. Here Arjuna was attached to the sense gratification - as this was all temporary. They feel that after reading vedas they want to go to the heavenly planets and can enjoy so much sense enjoyment that's the goal they understand. But the real happiness is to transcend even all these heavenly sense enjoyments and go to Goloka Vrindavan. Hence such people are said to be ignorant.

V44: Memorize these verses. Immeditately we are able to understand why we aren't tasting the HOLY Name because we are so attached to the material world - bhogaaisvarya - we need to first allow Krsna to enjoy it as we are always in the service mood. It's not that Krsna needs it, he's self satisfied. His internal potency which gives pleasure is already within him but we need it - so we need to serve Krsna. Hence we aren't able to make progress as we are so attached to sense enjoyments - even subtle enjoyments - I'd like to see my son do this or do that - I want them to become the governor a banker, have attachemnts and hence we get bewildered. As we want to enjoy these kinds of things we aren't able to focus on the Holy name. This is the reason of our slowness in KC is because of our attachement to such sense enjoyment. To get something we need to give us something Tapa - It is all about determination. Austerity for the supreme Lord, for the Lord's pleasure. Even when doing CHAD, reading SB doing your daily activities - think it's because Krsna is so happy to hear his own glories that we are doing it to please Krsna.

V45: If you don't arise above the 3 modes of material nature, the fruitive activities then we will never be able to understand Krsna. He wants us to rise above the Karma kandas. When we dovetail to Krsna then we automatically rise above the material anxieties and we become dependent on the Lord and for his mercy and then we make amazing progress. Automatically Krsna takes care. Tolerate, the dualities of the material life. One has to learn to tolerate - happiness and distress, cold and hot etc. Sometimes we get sometimes we don't get - we need to tolerate either way and try to rise above this material world.

V46: VERY Important verse MEMORIZE. So just by chanting the Holy Name is much better than all kinds of activities. Even devotees are so many different kinds, but just by chanting the Holy name all of us are making progress. Even Mahaprabhu showed to Prakashananta saraswati the importance of chanting coming directly from his Spiritual master. Similarly SP, is showing us from the puroport that there isn't any need to read the vedas etc, just need to do devotional service and also chant the holy name.

V47: Famous verse - We need to understand that we aren't the cause of these results but just the instrument of doing this work. Purport is very important - 3 types of works -  please listen to the recording and read Burijana pr. explanation

V48- 50: Listen to the recording please as I didn't hear properly. Date of recording 11/25/14

V 51: A man performing dev service can get rid of the reactions even in this life!!!! So just by performing devotional service one can transcend this material world and all these miseries and enter into Goloka Vrindavan. Example even if you do all kinds of pious activities if you are in karma kanda you can still fall down example - king giving cows to the brahmanas was cursed as a lizard. So we need to know our constitutional position as an eternal soul and then we can serve him nicely. We shouldn't think that we are the same as the Supreme Lord, otherwise we also have to take birth and death over and over again. Once we realize that we are not the body then we become eligible to go back to Godhead.

V52-54 please listen to the lecture.

Bhakti Shastri Chapter 2; v26-39 summary.

V26: SP says there were such people at that time too who would think that life comes from chemicals etc - Vaibhasika philosophy. Neo buddhism are people who believe that they can go to the planet of Buddha. Some feel we rise up from the chemicals and scientists now also believe that. Living entity feels they are getting more and more advanced but they are getting more and more delusional. Krsna is saying even if you feel this way Arjuna you should not be afraid as these are chemicals and there is no rebirth so you should still fight - so no sinful reactions. Prior to this he spoke about souls eternality and here he talks about athestics and buddhists. Here he is cornering Arjuna and no excuses and hence there is no reason to lament.

V27: After you are done with one term of activities you need to move to another set of activities and it's a natural cycle so death is part of this cycle and it generates no loss for anyone in one sense. So if someone is lamenting that someone is going to die, this verse says everyone is going to die, if one dies they are sure to take birth again.So hence, Arjuna also should not lament but at same time SP says we can't go around and kill people - this is not our philosophy. Violence is for keeping law and order. Arjuna gains from this that I shouldn't be afraid that my relatives are going to be dying - as it is part of his duty to kill and he shouldn't fear sinful reactions and they will take rebirth again as they will take birth according to their karma. Even if you don't fight they are still going to die and if he doesn't do his duty he will actually get sinful reactions so he should do his duty.

V28: Death actually doesn't cause any loss. Death is usual. Any ideology you follow, anybody who takes birth has to die and hence all created beings are unmanifest in the beginning and when they are unmanifest, there is no body and this body is created only for us to enjoy in this material world due to our desires to enjoy in this material world. This is know as Pradan, glance of the Lord and Maha shanbu agitation due to time and then the material entities are created. At time of annihilation, they all go back into the pradan.

V29: This verse is know as the "AMAZING VERSE" - look, describe, hear and see HIM as amazing. This is how people get bewildered in different ways. Factually the soul is existing. He is proving to Arjuna that he is a soul.  This can be translated into 3 ways and also the second line can be translated into 3 ways and hence - people get amazed. Looking at an ant vs whale they feel that soul can be so small and sometimes so big and because they are so intrigued by material life, they get caught up in this misconception.  But what is so important is what SP says in the last paragraph in this verse - The easiest process for understanding the subject matter of self, however, is to accept the statements of the Bhagavad-gītā spoken by the greatest authority, Lord Kṛṣṇa, without being deviated by other theories. But it also requires a great deal of penance and sacrifice, either in this life or in the previous ones, before one is able to accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa can, however, be known as such by the causeless mercy of the pure devotee and by no other way.

Verses from 11-30 are all jnana section, V30 - Here Krsna is summarizing the section saying, the soul can never be slain, so Arjuna stop grieving and please do you duty. SP, concludes this section very nicely in his purport.

V 31-38: Reason for the prescribed duty or Karma kanda section. So if you execute your dharma properly then you will have sufficient material happiness otherwise no material happiness is possible.
Common theme is by performing your prescribed duty material happiness comes by the grace of Krsna.

V31: Prabhupada explains who is a Ksatriya. He protects from harm. Who are they used to protect? Either from enemies or themselves by doing religious duties. They are trained in the forest, they are trained killing of some animals but not ruthlessly, if such animals are killed then according to the religious principles they are gotten a higher birth. They are trained to do such things - go to forest, they become fearless by fighting lions, tigers etc. Hence his desire of sanyasa is not accepted by Krsna. Therefore, killing on the battlefield on religious principles and killing animals in the sacrificial fire are not at all considered to be acts of violence, because everyone is benefited by the religious principles involved. Such animals are automatically given a higher birth in their next life and the ksatriya gets liberation directly.
Sva dharma - liberated and non liberated stage - In liberated stage we are doing our duties based on pleasing Krsna and this is pure dev. service. In non liberated stage do sadhana bhakti to come to the stage of liberated stage. Do your duty so you can set them as examples, so people can follow what's right and wrong. Sometimes people copy people they look up to, haence SP makes another description - sva dharma is called varnasrama dharma. Everyone in this nature they rise to higher planetary system and hence they are alled varnasrama dharma.  Hence we should say Davi - varnasrama dharma . You feel like are you doing for your satisfaction. If you follow nicely then in next life you get a higher life etc.Also speaks about the

V 32:Here he condemns Arjuna's speech an d Krsna also sayd that Ksatriya is happy when they get these fighting opportunity as they go to the heavenly planets. Even when they are not looking, when someone challenges they are happy and they want to fight. Arjuna was not able to appreciate this poiition. This is a karma kanda process as here Ksatriyas want to go to the heavely planets.

V33: He was a great fighter and he also had got fame and blessing from Lord Siva. This verse totally defeats his argument of incuring sins. Krsna is saying if you don't do your religious duty you will certainly incur sins. Here he is saying how Arjuna is going to suffer. It is not noble for him to leave the battlefield.

v34: Here Krsna is saying that infamy is worse than death. Arjuna is very respectable person and if someone speaks badly about you and are dishonored then you feel very bad and it is worse than death. Here Krsna is giving his final judgement to Arjuna. Dronacharya also won't be happy seeing Arjuna go away from the battlefield and everybody would say you are a coward. Infamy is worse than death. Krsna is saying even I don't want to be known as your friend then.

V35: They will all call him a coward and hence Krsna wants him to fight. It will be more painful for Arjuna to hear that. Kstariyas have the fighting nature and are chivalrous and hence we can't think like that. Similarly, as devotees we need to do our duty our instructions from SM, do our temple duties and hence we need to perform our actions nicely, if we don't do our actions properly then people will make fun of our movement.

V37: Main thing - don't worry about the result, just do what I'm telling you to do. What you are supposed to do is more important, but the outcome is based on your karma, Krsna's desire, your desires etc - just get up and do your duty and vows (chant your 16 rounds everyday, do your 5 dev services and responsibility to family) but don't worry about the end result, do your duty properly. At this time Dhirtarastra is feeling very happy

Next how one can work in knowledge. Chapter 2 is the second longest chapter. Longest is chapter 18.

V38: For sake of duty fight. You need to fight for the sake of fighting. When you are fighting you can't think of fighting or not fighting, because as a Ksatriya that is your nature and duty. Here Krsna is putting things to rest and he is telling Arjuna that this is what needs to be done. Everything should be done for the sake of Krsna. One is doing everything to please Krsna. Do fight for the sake of fighting, this is Krsna's desire. Then you shall never incur sin. But if you act for Krsna's pleasure then there is no reaction - good or bad no reaction, but these days we are doing everything for our pleasure and that's the problem. When you take birth, you already have so many debts to take of everybody that you will miss someone and karma kanda won't allow us to repay everyone's debts.example - the king giving cows to brahmanas. Karma kanda you can make mistakes, Sooner you please Krsna, everyone is pleased and that should be our way. Niskam karma yoga is what is needed - do the activity but without any desires for the results of the duty - Detached work. When we do niskam karma, we offer results of that work also to Krsna. So we are doing it for Krsna and also the results are offered to Krsna - example Book distribution - for Krsna and results are also offered to Krsna. Difference between Nishkaarm karma yoga for a devotee vs non devotee.

39-53 : Buddhi yoga - working for Krsna with his intelligence so there is no reaction.

V39:So far explained by analytical study (29-30 jnana difference between matter spirt, soul and body) sO far Krsna hasn't asked Arjuna to renounce activites. This is like niskam karma yoga - work in knowledge but detached from the results - what results misery or happiness. Practical application of how a soul can apply this knowledge. SP explains - one works for the pleasure of Krsna and that is the difference. Not just do it for Krsna but to please him - Best is to please Krsna, do something to please him. Sankhya yoga is once you understand soul and body you come to buddhi yoga. Jnana is used to perform duty but is used to please Krsna. Sankhya means looking into details but Sankhya yoga is different. Everything we have is going to pulled out from our fingers at time of death so we need to open ourselves to this fact and hence don't become attached to too many things in our life. Last paragraph is very important.Then we are doing buddhi yoga or bhakti yoga when we are doing everything for Krsna's pleasure in cooperation with others. Bottomline when we do service nicely and we are trying to please the Lord, then the Lord from within will guide him so he can understand his eternal position and help him go back home back to Godhead.

karma kanda - is only interested in fruitive results. Brahmanas guide such persons. Bottom of the pack and lower than these people are barbarians etc.
higher than karma kanda is sakaam karma yoga

Sakaam karma yoga - lot of material desires. Demigods are sakaam karma yogis but are still bhaktas for Krsna. When they are doing things for Krsna they are always hoping something for themselves. They approach Krsna but also hope something for themselves. Higher than that is niskaam karma yoga.

Niskaam karma yoga  BY Devotee of Krsna.- Higher than that. Working with no desires but their desires are to please Krsna, they are not interested in the results. Another group in this Jnanis - they will do it but they don't want any reactions. They do it with detachment but they don't want it any results but not for Krsna so it's a little lower - their desires is to merge with the brahman.

But higher than than is Bhakti yoga.

The main point is to please Krsna is whatever you do and you can advance by doing service to advanced devotees. You ask the advanced devotee what service can you do for them. When you do nice service to the best of your ability, they will be please and when Krsna's dear devotee is pleased then Krsna is pleased and then he will give you the ability to understand the scriptures and make advancement in your spiritual life. Hence it is very important to please your Spiritual Master by doing service for him based on his instructions - example - book distribution - make progress in unique ways to increase book distribution and then Gurudeva is going to be very happy and that will give allow you to make progress in devotional service.

BG Chapter 13 V8-12 by HG Shyamsundar Prabhu

Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bona fide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events; constant and unalloyed devotion to Me; aspiring to live in a solitary place; detachment from the general mass of people; accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance.

Today we shall start about what is Tolerance and then the rest. In BG, these principles, Arjuna is asking several questions. So what is knowledge. Knowledge is that thing which helps us to get information about something. Knowledge means to know. We all want to acquire knowledge. Krsna is qualifying these principles as true knowledge. Knowledge as per BG. As soon as someone gets the glimpse of these descriptions they can be situated at a better platform.

Tolerance means the ability to practise to bear insult and dishonor from others. When someone is on the process of devotional service, (either if we are practicing sincerely or not), dishonor will come and they are the ones who will test our Tolerance. Material nature is designed to frustrate the living entity to the fullest. We are on a roller coaster ride, sometimes we are up, sometime we are down, sometimes happy sometimes in deep misery. That is the material life. Hence, once should tolerate just like winter and summer months come and go. Don't get to happy when things are nice and don't get sad when things don't go well. Just like winter comes, on it's own accord, even when we don't want it, similarly, nobody can adjust the thermostat of life to say I want to add some misery, some happiness in my life - it comes on it's own accord. Intelligent person just tolerates! We just tolerate the things coming to us in this material world. We are not jumping around to say this body is getting old, we need to do plastic surgery to remove the wringles. We are just tolerating, yeah we are getting old - can't complain. The world is giving this to us and this is expected as the material nature is designed for this to happen. The key to success is tolerance.

Prahlad maharaj's father tolerated so many times of his father trying to kill him. Mahaprabhu taught us Trinad api.....the principle of chanting the holy name constantly is only achieved when we are tolerant and humble. A brahmana is taking bath, scorpion is seen drowning and the brahmana picks up the scorpion bites him, so brahmana drops him, tolerates and try to save him again and again - because the sadhu's nature is such - keep trying with tolerance.

Same way we have so many challenges - challenges of our mind, body, senses, friends, relatives - all of them are challenging us to not do the right thing of practicing KC. You have no time, you have so many things to do, you have no time to do this chanting, you are still very young, the time hasn't come to chant. Hence, we are being challenged everyday everymoment to practise our KC. We are not able to tolerate these challenges and tolerate our mind and tell the mind that - let's put everything elese to rest and this is the most important thing for me right now because this will give me the joy, peace of mind and happiness eternally. To practice KC, we need to develop tolerance. When this is missing, the entire purpose of life is lost. That's why Krsna states Tolerance - simplicity - simple living and high thinking here. Simplicity means one without diplomacy can state the right truth to an enemy. Approaching a bonafide spiritual master - Guru Ashray. There are 5 principles stated in NOD
- Take shelter of a bona fide spiritual master. Without the instruction of the spiritual master one can't progress in their spiritual life. We all went to school, all have our degrees and to get those degrees we had to get information from such bonafide teachers. Similarly in our spiritual life, we are all trying to practice spirituality and learn the science of Krsna so we can have spiritual progress. We have to take Guru Ashraya. Without having a Guru, ones progress is impossible. One may actually give many arguments but this principle of accepting a Spiritual Master is very crucial.

What does it mean about having a Spiritual Master? This is not for fashion. We are not doing it just for the name or reputation or for a status. Accepting Guru is for spiritual progress - we follow the instructions of the spiritual master. No point of having a Guru if we can't follow the spiritual master. One must think and one must act. Yasya prasadad.... when the SM is satisfied then we make progress but if SM is not satisfied them there is no progress because if SM is satisfied Krsna is satisfied. We can't just ask for blessings. When you have done something right, automatically he gets the blessings. But if someone has done something wrong, then the hear of the SM cries out for that devotee. But if you do something nice and please the heart of your SM, then Krsna notes that yes my pure devotee is very happy and hence he notes who made him happy.

Cleanliness - One must always think of Krsna and chant the Hare Krsna mantra always. It is external and internal cleanliness. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Externally we should keep very clean, dirt mean ignorance. Have you see places which are not cleaned for many days - it starts smelling and you have flies and you don't like living there and then you have ignorance and ghosts start living there. Hence, externally it is very important to keep everything clean and when you keep things clean - then your heart just feels so clean. Cleaning your body is such a refreshing experience. Why? That is the nature of a sadhu. A brahmana must take bath 3 times a day and the brahmana must be fresh and take bath 3 times a day. That is the nature of cleanliness. Lot of positiveness. Internal cleanliness is more important and that is cleanliness of mind - Ceto darpana marjanam - the mind has accumulated lots and lots of dust in terms of bad experiences - lust, anger envy, enmity .... how to clean by the mirror of the mind - Hare Krsna Mantra sincerely - it burns away your sins and cleans the mind. It is very scientific and mind the driving force for everything. The whole day we are driven by our mind. For example a person using glasses, has dust on his glasses then he sees everything hazy and can't see things clearly, same way we need to chant the holy name of Krsna to cleanse the mind of all the dust that has accumulated millions of lifetime. Why is it so important? - Our vision is contaminated and mind is dirty and hence we engage ourselves in all these dirty activities.

If we want to lead a good nice life - only possible by keeping our mind clean and that is done only by chanting the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra.

Most important concepts from Sistastakam:
Tolerance, Humbleness, No respect for us and is ready to give respects to everyone - complete humility is not possible unless you have Bhakti. Tolerance is very important because if someone can't tolerate he can never become a devotee of Krsna. The Pandavas were so tolerant. Prahlad maharaj was so tolerant, Dhruva, Ambarish, Brajavasis were so tolerant. One cannot realize Krsna without tolerance. Respecting others without expecting respect for us, in that steady state of mind we can chant the holy name of Krsna without any disturbance. One who truly wants to make progress in spiritual life then all these 4 principles are very important - this is the gateway to spiritual life. Withouth going through the gateway we can't even start our journey. Chant the holy name with feeling and you will become perfect. SP explains that crocodile of death is ready to consume us at anytime. Come out of our complacency - then Krsna in our heart will help us remember Him, wherever we are at whatever stage you are - Krsna sees your sincerity and he will help us get us to come to Him. So please chant with feelings and then you will become perfect.

Bhakti Shastri Chapter 2 Verses 16-24

V16: The point which he wants Arjuna to understand is that if you have a proper understanding of the soul and body then you will not lament. When the lease runs out a person can't continue to stay at the same place. The rule is that you are kicked out and you have to go to another place. Same way soul occupies the body and the body has a limited time of existence. The body can't extend its existence and at that time the soul is kicked out to another body. There is no endurance for the body. The soul doesn't change but when the desire is kept within our heart, then we create the subtle body and we create the next body. within this life when we start desiring all kinds of nonsense, the Supersoul understands our desires and starts creating the subtle body. The body and the spirit are different. The body is inferior and the soul is superior. The reason we are in the situation is because we are always covered with the material modes of nature. We need to understand that we are not the Lord but we are just the parts and parcels, but we forget our position. This is exactly what Krsna is teaching Arjuna to how to get out of this bewilderment so they can understand the nature of the spirit soul. The reason the Lord teaches BG is because we can all study it and drive away all ignorance and be enlightened. How can we drive this only by the mercy of a Guru and following in his footsteps with faith and devotion.

V17: Characteristics of the soul - the symptoms of the consciousness of the soul. The very first time Krsna talks about the symptoms of the soul. The soul pervades the entire body and is not destructible. This is consciousness - nature or symptom of the soul. These individual souls can experience only the pains or pleasures of this soul, but only the super soul can understand the pains and pleasures of all the souls - Only Krsna. Size of the soul - last two verses are very important and please learn it. The soul gets out only when the body dies, but if there is a heart transplant the person is still the same person as it's the same soul - there might be exchange of some karma. Even animals and plants have soul and give the argument that they are also mating, eating, defending and reproducing. Similarly, give example of the sunshine (purport) we are all fragmental parts of the Supreme soul.

V18: Material body is perishable by nature - either perishable immediately, or hundreds of years. But the soul is indestructible. Only one good use and that use is that the body is for doing devotional service or spiritual activity. Any other thing is a waste of time. This body should be used only for devotional service. The body itself is unimportant. As soon as someone dies, the spirit soul goes away - the effulgence goes away and the body starts decomposing - we know something is gone from the body.

V19: The soul cannot be killed or kill nor can it kill another soul. We don't promote violence, even killing the animals, because the soul is coming for a particular reason to do his karma. When we kill, he still needs to come back into another animal body and because we have disturbed this process, we incur karma due to that. Our only way is by eating prasadam and going out on harinam sankirtam.

V20: Krsna doesn't say differently when he speaks to different people. Example when he speaks to Uddhava it's the same philosophy. The soul doesn't take birth nor it dies. We need to go back to the spiritual realms where everything is enjoyable. He is always existing as he's an expansion of the lord. Spiriti osul is eternally existing. wE find that even when our body is going old we still think that we are more mature in the way we talk. Inside the body are two kinds of souls - paramatma and the individual soul. Who can understand the glories of the soul - only one who has the mercy of the Lord only by pleasing the spiritual master. They feel they are servants of Krsna and are just serving our Spiritual master and Krsna then they are on the spiritual realm, otherwise we are acting on the bodily concept.  This can happen only when we have the grace and mercy of the Lord. One who desires to seek Krsna then he comes back to Krsna.

V21/22- Surgeon and Judge example - the surgeon uses the same knife to help while a murderer using the knife to kill. Similarly, the judge hangs one a person but based on his karma that's ok because the judge is acting on religious principles to help him alleviate his karma. When someone dies it's like changing clothes of the soul. When the garment is old, they throw it away. The analogy is when the clothes are old and torn then we throw it away. When someone gets attached to the body or their home or their relationships or they die terribly then they become ghosts. We all have to take another body. Pious activities don't help with liberation, it actually makes us more attached with this kind of work. Based on our desires our subtle body is created. But based on our understanding of the BG, we should try to avoid these desires and only desire to serve Radha and Krsna. As we become more and more KC, our desires for material sense gratification goes away and we only want to serve Krsna and please him. Then we start thinking like a spirit soul. when we are working in that consciousness, then the subtle body (*template for the next material body) dies and we will get a spiritual body. We should conciously want to serve spiritual personalities and to serve for their pleasure and then conciousness shift that I must to I want to do for Krsna's pleasure. Example is the 2 birds. Everything is being witnessed by the Supersoul and he helps create the next body based on our desires and what we deserve. As we are parts and parcels of KRsna and because he has desires, we also have desires. Our desires are completely fulfilled if we serve Krsna and that knowledge isn't there with us. Whatever we enjoy is temporary and hence we are never satisfied. This material world bewilders us and everything is OK and as soon as we close the book we are again put into illusion. So if we are always stead fast in our spiritual devotion then we will always be in the right consciousness. Hence Krsna says now he shouldn't be worried about killing Bhisma and Dhrona - because they will be actually getting rid of their karmas as they were party of the Kauravas plan. Hence Arjuna should be happy and not sad.

V23-25: More qualities of the soul. The points are repeated to emphasize again and again with Arjuna.
By this statement of Krsna the soul remains the same eternal particle without any change. Krsna says that the soul is insoluble, if it is solube how does the soul merge into the spiritual realm. Even the soul when he's wanting to merge, he cannot lose his identigy and remains as the  spiritual soul and needs some desire for Krsna's companion. and such personalities come  back to home. We should just please the Lord so we can go back to Goloka to have the highest relationships with Krsna. Sarva-gatha - the soul can stay anywhere, it's all pervading -  in water, in oil, in air, in hot water etdc.

When we are in true spiritual conciousness - our spirit soul will itself manifest into its spiritual body. We are right now like flower buds and when we become pure, we bloom into full flowers as our contamination goes away and our spiritual identity is revealed.

Summary of Bhakti Shastri Chapter 2 Verse 9 - 17

Verse 11-30; Krishna gives knowledge about the spirit soul and the soul is eternal and can never be destroyed and the body has to go away one day.

Verse 10: He has come to a point where he doesn't know what to do. Sanjay is reported to Dhirtarastra that Krsna is smiling. The two rasas are meeting here from sakhya rasa it goes to dasya - to understand the teachings from Krsna. He agrees to be his Guru because the devotee wants to be in that relationship (free will) and also Krsna wants to experience this pleasure potency. We can understand that Krsna is a friend, a guru or anything else he is always the superior.

From Verses 11-30; Spiritual soul is eternal and can never be destroyed and the body is temporary and has to be destroyed at some point. If we understand this then we won't be bewildered. If we are ourselves sick with some disease we become bewildered, we should actually think that we are eternal and we should keep performing our daily duties and then we realize our eternal being. Inspite of all kinds of impediments we keep on performing our devotional service everyday.

V11:Here Krsna is chastizing him. He says you have been trained regarding all this and the wise never lament for living or dead.

V12 - Remember this verse asked during exams: All of us are eternal. We never ceased to be. All living entities are eternal and therefore we shouldn't lament for the death of any person. 4 defects - lie, tendency to cheat, illusion, say wrong things - the common man has these defects and Krsna doesn't have these defects and hence he isn't common man. Lot of acaryas refer to the Gita - why, because Krsna is the supreme personality and that is the spirit of the BG we should read the Gita in that spirit. We shouldn't read Mayavadi philosophy (Sankaracharya's Sariraka Bhasya - He was empowered to write this for people who didn't have any belief in vedas) as we will lose all power to understand the Gita.

V13: Remember this verse and these verses are asked during the example - Dehina is the soul is embodied. The body dies and you give up the body and the soul needs to go to another body.

V14: Memorize this verse also. We need to go through these dualities. Arjuna wanted to give us these religious duties and wanted to go to the forest. Krsna is saying he shouldn't abandon his duties just because of some changes like summer, winter etc. Material world is non permanent and despite all impediments and changes yet we should keep doing our religious duties - These are cycles in the material life - Summer, winter, fall, spring, happiness, distress - We shouldn't be attached to these things. Our senses want to enjoy these things ; Sensory perceptions. Hence, one must learn to tolerate. We should just try to tolerate. Prescribed duties are very important for us in our spiritual journey. We need to do our prescribed duties very nicely because they help us regulate our material desires as they help us come to the platform of Jyana and from this platform we can quickly come to the platform of Bhakti. Hence, we need to perform our duties very nicely. Tolerate all these things we can come to the highest goal. Everyday we should wake up early in the morning and take our shower. We need to abide by these religious principles. We are not bothered by these external factors anymore and we understand it's for our good and we keep doing it everyday/every time. Keep doing our duties - material and spiritual everyday in the same way even if you have all kinds of impediments - the intention is the most important. Only if someone is talking wrong about Krishna or Guru then you don't tolerate but for everything else tolerate everything - just tolerate and be humble like a tree or the straw in the street. Only then we will get real pleasure.

V15: Highest goal of liberation and how can you achieve it. If our focus is on the right thing, then we can easily achieve the highest goal of life - Krsna prema. If we want to be eligible for liberation from material bondage we need to be steady in one's prescribed duties. Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. Even in our lives, we notice that many people try to create impediments in our KC life and we just need to tolerate and despite all impediments keep going ahead with our service to Krishna and perform our dev activities and follow our daily schedule.

V16: What others also think about this and how they also think the same way. Here he is giving reference of what is revealed in the scriptures and he is trying to convince Arjuna using this about what others feel about this. This is also our instruction. We shouldn't make up stories but just stick to shastra and the seers of truth. To drive away our ignorance that we are the masters Krsna speaks the BG. This is spoken not for once but for all time, so we can understand and apply our life on this aspect and go back home back to Godhead in this life.

V17: Very imp verse. Aspect of the soul and this is what means conciousness. The soul pervades the entire body and it's not destructible. This is the spreading of conciousness all over the body.The symptom of the soul is this. We can experience the pain and pleasure of just our body but not of another body but the Lord can. This is conciousness - each and every body is the embodiment of an individual soul, and the symptom of the soul’s presence is perceived as individual consciousness.
Also, size of soul is given here and we need to know this 1/10,000 of the tip of the hair (smaller than the material atom) Without this spark, our material body is useless. “The soul is atomic in size and can be perceived by perfect intelligence. This atomic soul is floating in the five kinds of air (prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, samāna and udāna), is situated within the heart, and spreads its influence all over the body of the embodied living entities. When the soul is purified from the contamination of the five kinds of material air, its spiritual influence is exhibited.” Only by the KC process can we purify the soul of it's contaminated coverings. Doing devotional service is the original activity of the spirit soul. Hence, us engaging in dev. service is us engaging in our original service to Krsna and Radharani.