1. The document discusses how Arjuna can control his senses through Krishna consciousness by performing his duties as a warrior and fighting in the battle of Kurukshetra without attachment.
2. It then discusses how one can practice Krishna consciousness by doing their duties with the mindset that their home is a temple, children are Krishna's devotees, and regulating the senses through practices like hearing, chanting, offering food to Krishna, and smelling flowers offered to Krishna.
3. The document asks to establish the superiority of bhakti yoga over other yoga systems with references from Bhagavad Gita chapters 2-6. It explains that bhakti yoga contains aspects of
1. The document discusses how Arjuna can control his senses through Krishna consciousness by performing his duties as a warrior and fighting in the battle of Kurukshetra without attachment.
2. It then discusses how one can practice Krishna consciousness by doing their duties with the mindset that their home is a temple, children are Krishna's devotees, and regulating the senses through practices like hearing, chanting, offering food to Krishna, and smelling flowers offered to Krishna.
3. The document asks to establish the superiority of bhakti yoga over other yoga systems with references from Bhagavad Gita chapters 2-6. It explains that bhakti yoga contains aspects of
1. The document discusses how Arjuna can control his senses through Krishna consciousness by performing his duties as a warrior and fighting in the battle of Kurukshetra without attachment.
2. It then discusses how one can practice Krishna consciousness by doing their duties with the mindset that their home is a temple, children are Krishna's devotees, and regulating the senses through practices like hearing, chanting, offering food to Krishna, and smelling flowers offered to Krishna.
3. The document asks to establish the superiority of bhakti yoga over other yoga systems with references from Bhagavad Gita chapters 2-6. It explains that bhakti yoga contains aspects of
1. The document discusses how Arjuna can control his senses through Krishna consciousness by performing his duties as a warrior and fighting in the battle of Kurukshetra without attachment.
2. It then discusses how one can practice Krishna consciousness by doing their duties with the mindset that their home is a temple, children are Krishna's devotees, and regulating the senses through practices like hearing, chanting, offering food to Krishna, and smelling flowers offered to Krishna.
3. The document asks to establish the superiority of bhakti yoga over other yoga systems with references from Bhagavad Gita chapters 2-6. It explains that bhakti yoga contains aspects of
Explain, in your own words, the process of sense control by Krishna consciousness with reference to verses, purports, analogies and examples from Bhagavad-gita 2.54-68 and 3.4-8. How is this relevant for: Arjuna’s situation on the battlefield of Kurukñetra? Your own practice of Krishna consciousness?
Answer 5)
Arjun is attached to his relatives; Here Arjun needs control his senses through performing his duties and fight the war for Dharma. The Krishna Conscious person is concerned only with the satisfaction of Krishna , and nothing else. Therefore he is transcendental to all attachment and detachment. He must Perform his prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working. If he do not fight then he an cannot even maintain one’s physical body and would lost the glory of fighter and his relatives will insult him.
In Our practice our Krishna consciousness :
➔ Do our duties keeping in mind that Home is our temple and Children are Krishna devotee and we need to perform all duties ( work) to serve them well. ➔ Food - Prepare the food for Krishna, Offering to him and eat Prasad only, this way our tongue taste and belly would be controlled. ➔ Following the 4 regulating Principals to control the senses ➔ Listen only Hari Naam and Bhagwat katha to control ear senses ➔ Inhaling flowers offered to Krishna and Guru Parampara to control Nose senses. 2. Establish, in your own words, the superiority of bhakti over the other yoga systems with reference to verses and purports from Bhagavad-gita, Chapters 2-6, and comments from Prabhupada’s lectures. In your answer explain the following: The impracticality of yoga systems, other than bhakti-yoga, in Kali-yuga. How bhakti-yoga contains all the components of the other yoga systems. How bhakti-yoga can be practiced without having practiced other yoga systems. (Preaching Application)
Answer :
In this age of Kali, it is impractical to leave home and practice meditation in the jungles without any fear, giving up material desires and practicing celibacy and It is impractical for a worker to give up proprietorship over results of his activities without being Krishna Conscious
Bhakti Yoga covers all the Yoga and can be easily done.
a) Bhakti-yoga contains Karma-yoga:
- Service for the cause of the Lord is called karma-yoga.’ (BG 2.51 Purport). When all our activities, austerities and charities are tad kurusva mad arpanam, ‘offered to the Lord’ then it is perfect Karma-yoga. By acting in this way, a devotee is free from bondage of work and he achieves complete perfection by attaining the Lord, mam upaisyasi. (BG 9.28-29) b) Bhakti-yoga contains Gyan Yoga: - A Krishna Conscious person knows fully well that Krishna is the whole and that he is part and parcel of Krishna. Due to his perfection of knowledge; he is protected from all material contaminations on strength of his devotional service. c) Bhakti-yoga contains Dhyana-yoga: - Samadhi is easily attained by a Krsna Consciousness devotee as his mind and senses are controlled and always fixed on Krishna by following the nine processes of devotional service like hearing, chanting etc. (BG Purport 5.7; 6.34). d) . Bhakti-yoga is not dependant on any other yoga process. ‘A person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the results derived from studying the Vedas, performing austere sacrifices, giving charity or pursuing philosophical and fruitive activities. Conclusion: The steady concentration of the mind upon Krishna, or Krishna consciousness, is the highest form of all yoga. (BG Purport 7.1)
