Hari Om!

Swami Aparajitananda revises the crux of the seventeenth chapter till now and goes on to discuss about tamasic food and sattvic and rajasic types of worship.

Some highlights:

• Your faith will depend upon how you have analysed your experiences till now.
• Experiences coupled with right guidance from the scriptures give us wisdom.
• Can you be happy with yourself doing nothing? The answer to this question is analysed based on two different shraddhās.
• How scriptures can change our shraddhā - Gurudev's example of a radio.
• How to make our shraddhā perfect?
• Sattvic and rajasic foods

Verse 10: Tamasic food
• Manda pakva = not properly cooked
• Without any nutritive value
• Foul-smelling
• Stale, putrefied
• Eaten by someone

• What one eats tells a lot about a person.
• Factors to be kept in mind when food is taken - source, quality, quantity, frequency, mode of eating.
• You find time for what you value.

Verse 11: Sattvic yajña
• Traditional meaning of yajña is ritualistic worship.
• Special meaning for a spiritual person - any sādhanā done for spiritual growth can be called as yajña.
• Sādhana performed based on teachings of scriptures without craving for any material results, with a concentrated mind and a firm resolve that this must be done, is called a sattvic yajña.
• Belief of a sattvic person (based on teachings of the scriptures) - I am suffering/miserable not because of others, but because of myself. "If I have a problem, I am the problem." - correct your way of thinking.
• If my mind is filled with negative thoughts, I will be miserable; if my mind is filled with positive thoughts, I will be happy. Hence, replace the negative thoughts with positive thoughts.
• Spiritual sādhanā is meant for filling our mind with positive thoughts.
• Benefits of spiritual sādhanā and meditation.
• You will find time for what you value. Meaning of "yashtavyam eva".
• "The strength of your conviction is reflected in your action."
• The greatest sacrifice in life is sacrificing your own ego.
• God misunderstood is ego.
• The real meaning of "aphalākānkshi".
• How to create a beautiful world around you?

Verse 12: Rajasic yajña
• Spiritual sādhanā is done keeping in mind a worldly fruit. It is begging for a conducive environment.
• Attitude behind this yajña is 'world gives happiness' and hypocrisy.
• Done with a lot of pomp and show, though done according to vidhi.

Next: Tamasic worship

(Bhagavad Gītā Chp. 17 - Talk 3 of 7 - verses 10 to 12)

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