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Question of the Week: What is my duty?

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Chapter 3, Verse 35 of the Bhagavad Gita reads:
श्रेयान् स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात् स्वनुष्टितात् स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः
Roughly translated, this says that performing one’s prescribed duty (svadharma) imperfectly is better than performing another’s perfectly. Krishna tells Arjuna this in the context of Arjuna’s concerns about war. He tells Arjuna that it is his duty to [...]

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Emerson and the Bhagavad-Gita

Saturday, June 20, 2009

While I was reading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Spiritual Laws,” I came across a quotation that reminded of a verse from the Bhagavad-Gita.  The quote was:
“I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act, the choice of the hands, of the eyes, of the appetites, and not a [...]

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Not believing in God

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

I was in New Jersey at home for the past week, getting rather bored out of my mind with nothing to do.  In the midst of cleaning my closet of clothes that hadn’t been looked at for years, I came across a box of my workbooks, including some stuff from Chinmaya Mission, of which I [...]

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