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Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 12:46 a.m.

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This episode is my chanting of Chapter 2.

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I encourage you to listen to this with a copy of Gita Ch 2 verses ALONG with translation of meaning. You will surely enjoy it.

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Krishna summarizes the entire Gita in Chapter 2 to Arjuna's problem statement expressed in Chapter 1 (how can I kill folks I rever & respect?) .

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The rest of the chapters 3-17 elaborate the summary of Chapter 2 and then in chapter 18, Krishna again summarizes.

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In this chapter 2, the key messages from Krishna:

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1. Each person in flesh & blood is a manifestation of that Universal Being.

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2. Universal Being is never born, never dies. It just assumes new bodies just as a person wears fresh clothes to replace soiled ones.

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3. If something dies then it will be reborn. Whatever is born, will have to die.

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4. Accept the fact that the body & mind will have to find an end someday or the other.

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5. Sense organs & mind need to be trained to bear heat/cold, pleasure/pain, praise/criticism. These dualities come because our senses & mind are not trained.

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6. The Universal Being is the Self in the body and this is said to be unmanifest, unthinkable, unchangeable. Therefore, one ought not to grieve any death or disease, which happen to the body/mind.

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7. Doing one's duty is very important, knowing this eternal truth about Self, birth & death. Duty basically means, drawing up our roles we play today and do it to perfection (parent, child, friend, employee etc...)

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8. If we do our duty well, we get pleasures in this world and after death, we get nether-world pleasures.

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9. Doing our duty with a karma-yoga attitude (giving the best efforts as an offering to the Universal Being, accepting all results as a benevolence from that Being - this is not to be mistaken with expectations. We can expect (must) results, but Krishna is asking us to accept what finally comes out.

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10. Anyone who follows karma-yoga path is not wasting even a small effort. If one is carried away with power, glory, selfish interests, attachment, ego then they don't get one pointed determination towards subliming death....and keep on taking birth & death in cycles.

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11. For a person thinking of sense-objects there grows an attachment for the sense objects. From this attachment arises desire, from desire results anger, from anger results delusion, and from delusion results confusion of memory, and from confusion of memory results in destruction of intelligence and from destruction of intelligence, one perishes.

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