निरामय - श्रीमद् भगवद् गीता

\ DOUBTS AND CLARIFICATIONS DOUBT :   W hich are Sattvika food items?  Which are the food items to be avoided?  Is meat eating wrong? CLARIFICATION :  Shri Krishna does not classify foods.  He only talks about variation in taste  preferences  according to Gunas.  Sattvika person knows the direction in life very clearly.  Hence, while describing his taste, Shri Krishna mentions the effects of foods and says Sattvika person will prefer foods that will give strength, health and long life.  The Rajasik person is always in excited state and does not think about effects.  He prefers momentous, exciting tastes.  Hence, Shri Krishna does not mention types of foods but the tastes he chooses,  while describing Rajasik  preference.   He says that Rajasik person prefers excessively salty, hot, spicy, sour foods.  Shri Krishna cautions that these tastes are momentarily exciting, but harmful in effect....

ॐ DOUBTS AND CLARIFICATIONS DOUBT :  Are the Gods and Demons two different specie?  Do they exist in other worlds called Deva Loka and Asura Loka?  Or, are they among us humans? CLARIFICATION :  There is a lot of difference between what is and what we think is.  The physical eye in our possession has very short vision.  Earth in total creation is equivalent to a drop of water in an ocean.  In that drop, man is but a speck.  If all the humans were the whole earth, one man is just equivalent to a pot of clay.  There is absolutely no doubt that there are other worlds.  We do not know.  That does not mean those worlds are not there.  But, let us talk about what we know, this world. Deiva and Asura are not types of men.  There can be types in human attitudes and qualities, but not in humans.  Human is quintessence of the Paramaatman.  That is the only type.  There are types only in the Prakri...

\ DICTIONARY OF WORDS IN THE GITA CHAPTER II 1.                         Anarya (II – 2) : –  Aarya means ‘great, noble’.  Anaarya is the opposite.  This word Arya has been used in this context in our scriptures.  In Ramayana, Sitadevi addresses Shri Rama, Mandodhari addresses Ravana and in Mahabharatha Draupadi addresses Yudhishtira as Aarya and Aryaputra.  Dravida is word to denote a region in Bharat.  The southern region of Bharat is called ‘Pancha Dravida pradesh’ (or five Dravida regions).  The National anthem, Jana Gana Mana also mentions Dravida as the southern region.  In Kashi, the Brahmins from south are called ‘Dravida Brahmins’.  Dravid is a surname in many Brahmin families in Maharashtra and Karnataka.  There is one Samskrita and Vedik scholar by name Dravida in Chennai Samskrita college.  Aarya i...