Bhagavad-Gita Chapter 2

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Bhagavad-GitaChapter 2

• Contents of Gita Summarized

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Compassion for the dress of drowning man. Material
compassion, lamentation and tears.

• saïjaya uväca
• taà tathä kåpayäviñöam
• açru-pürëäkulekñaëam
• viñédantam idaà väkyam
• uväca madhusüdanaù
• Saïjaya said Seeing Arjuna full of com-passion,
  his mind depressed, his eyes full of tears,
  Madhusüdana, Kåñëa, spoke the following words.

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Material and Spiritual Compassion

• Self realized called Pandit.
• Shudra one who laments unnecessarily.
• Most of the population now a days on platform of
  shudra.
• Arjunas lamentation on platform of body.

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• çré-bhagavän uväca
• kutas tvä kaçmalam idaà
• viñame samupasthitam
• anärya-juñöam asvargyam
• akérti-karam arjuna
• The Supreme Personality of Godhead said My dear
  Arjuna, how have these impurities come upon you?
  They are not at all befitting a man who knows the
  value of life. They lead not to higher planets
  but to infamy.

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Krsna is referred as Bhagavan.

• vadanti tat tattva-vidas
• tattvaà yaj jïänam advayam
• brahmeti paramätmeti
• bhagavän iti çabdyate
• The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases
  of understanding by the knower of the Absolute
  Truth, and all of them are identical. Such phases
  of the Absolute Truth are expressed as Brahman,
  Paramätmä, and Bhagavän.

Absolute Truth in 3 phases Brahman
(Impersonal) Paramatma (Supersoul) Bhagavan
(Supreme Personality of Godhead)
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Krsna declared as Bhagavan

• éçvaraù paramaù kåñëaù
• sac-cid-änanda-vigrahaù
• anädir ädir govindaù
• sarva-käraëa-käraëam
• There are many personalities possessing the
  qualities of Bhagavän, but Kåñëa is the supreme
  because none can excel Him. He is the Supreme
  Person, and His body is eternal, full of
  knowledge and bliss. He is the primeval Lord
  Govinda and the cause of all causes.

• ete cäàça-kaläù puàsaù
• kåñëas tu bhagavän svayam
• indräri-vyäkulaà lokaà
• måòayanti yuge yuge
• All the lists of the incarnations of Godhead
  submitted herewith are either plenary expansions
  or parts of the plenary expansions of the Supreme
  Godhead, but Kåñëa is the Supreme Personality of
  Godhead Himself.

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Aryan (A civilized man)

• Civilization based on Spiritual realization.
• Anarya No concept of god, spirit and engrossed
  in bodily concept of life.
• No knowledge of liberation from material world.
• Arjunas compassion non-Aryan and not approved by
  Krsna.