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The Final Word of the Gita: Why Chapter 18 Still Speaks to Us Today

Think about it – how often do we find ourselves at crossroads, wondering if we’re doing the right thing? Whether it’s about quitting a job, chasing a passion, balancing family and ambition, or even making peace with our own restless ...

Wisdom and Ignorance

The actual commentary of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Bhagavan Sri Sankaracharya begins with chapter 2, Verse 11: Shri Bhagavan said: You are worrying about Bhishma, Drona and others who need not be worried about as they are of good conduct and from a supreme point of view too the...

The chaos of modern living

Life is a flux, almost all the time. There is stress and tension, hustle and bustle, deadlines to meet, choices to make, decisions to take. If we slip for a few seconds, we have to catch up with months and years of work. It is like standing in a flooded river and tryi...

Purify mind with action. Realise the Self

The Bhashyam for the Srimad Bhagavad Gita begins with a prayer to Bhagavan Sriman Narayana who is beyond the manifested creation. From the unmanifest, he created this egg. From this egg came all these worlds, the seven oceans and this earth too. The Acharya does not write a commentary for the whole ...

I learnt the Pledge way back when I was in lower kindergarten at Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Allapuzha. Within a year I had also been enrolled into Balvihar, where too the Pledge was taught to me. This time in Malayalam.
In both places, the Pledge was ‘chanted’ at the end of the day, at the end of the class...

In continuation of the ‘Story of Vidyaranya’ in our previous issue, we bring you this section on‘ Prakarana Granthas’ as an introduction to the Panchadasi. Both these are unpublished so far. Since they were written carefully by Pujya Gurudev himself, they are very precious, and we thank the Chinmaya...

These two verses are from the beginning of the tenth chapter of the Pañcadaśī, titled ‘Nāṭaka Dīpaḥ’. The entire explanation, as well as the word meanings and footnotes, was handwritten by Pujya Gurudev in the manuscript, which is now preserved in the Chinmaya Archives.

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