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8/4/2019 An Intro - Real Life

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Real Life


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Are Human Beings superior to Animals ?

If so, HOW?...


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Reasoning Power..

Do you think that animals dont

have reasoning power?..No Animals too have

reasoning power


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Activities common to both

Human and AnimalsEating

Sleeping

Mating

Defending


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4 Defects in Human Life

Bhrama - To be illusioned

Vipralipsa - Cheating Propensity

Pramada - To commit mistakes

Karanapatava - Imperfect sense


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3 Ways of Gaining Knowledge

Pratyaksha Praman(Perception)

Anumana Praman (Inference)

Sabda Praman (Verbal Testimony)


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Bhagavad Gita As It IsChapter 4. Transcendental Knowledge

TEXT 34 tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya upadeksyanti te jnanam jnaninas tattva-darsinah

TRANSLATION

Just try to learn the truth by approaching aspiritual master. Inquire from himsubmissively and render service unto him. Theself-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.


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Knowledge Triangle

Guru

Sadhu Sastra


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Who we are?...

Mr.X - Name

Manager - Designation

Male / Female - Gender

Indian - Nationality


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Bhagavad Gita As It IsChapter 2. Contents of the Gita Summarized

TEXT 13 dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati

TRANSLATION

As the embodied soul continuously passes, inthis body, from boyhood to youth to old age,the soul similarly passes into another body atdeath. A self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.


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What is our duty?...

SERVING duty of the soul

The rendering of service to GOD issanatana-dharma


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Major Problems in LIFE

BIRTH

DEATH

OLD AGE

DISEASE

Need PEACE &Happiness !!!

Solution - Religion


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Religion - Connecting oneself to GOD

Sambandha - Relationship between God andSoul

Abidheya - means to achieve the ultimate goal

Prayojana - Attaining pure love of God


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Name : Abhay CharanFounder : ISKCON

Achievement : Srila Prabhupadas booksare being used as textbooksby numerous majoruniversities in America,Europe and Asia.

Review : When the late Prime Minister, Lal BhadurShastri saw the first three volumes of A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swamis Shrimad

Bhagavatam, he said that every school,college, and government office in Indiashould read these books.


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"I am most impressed with A.C. Bhaktivedanta SwamiPrabhupada's scholarly and authoritative edition of Bhagavad-gita. It is a most valuable work for thescholar as well as the layman and is of great utility as areference book as well as a textbook. I promptly recommend this edition to my students. It is abeautifully done book."

Dr. Samuel D. AtkinsProfessor of Sanskrit, Princeton University


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"...For those who have no access to the Sanskritlanguage, these books convey, in superb manner, themessage of the Bhagavatam. In addition to being ascholarly work, it directly reflects the spiritualaspirations of a religious community which has gainedconsiderable popularity in modern America."

Dr. Alaka HejibDepartment of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, HarvardUniversity


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