http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/classes/bhagavad-gita-seriatim/

Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur, September 2010-April 2011

The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents.

• Nakshatras are on the topmost platform of goodness in the material world
• Arjuna is afraid and ask the Lord what is His mission because he does not know the Lord in that form.
• He is time and has come to destroy the worlds.
• He will destroy everyone in a special way.
• Only a few warriors were left after the battle on both sides.

• 12:40 Savyasacin - expert at shooting arrows.
• 15:30 Nara and Narayana Rishi always use bows and arrows.
• 17:00 Everyone will be killed by their insulting Draupadi.
• Vedic culture is always balanced.
• Actual conclusion of the Vedas is acintya-bhedabheda tattva.
• Acintya bhedabheda tattva compared to other philosophies.
• 21:00 Even impios activities can be connected to Krishna consciousness, but better connect pious. Not connected pious has no value on its own.
• Impious is what goes against the nature.
• Good and bad activities are so in connection to Krishna.
• All advices in modern management books work because of Krishna.
• Modern managers don't come close to what Prabhupada did.
• 36:00 The science of Krishna consciousness doesn't change due to different conditionings.
• 37:45 If we think that Krishna consciousness is relevant only to the modern, that's the philosophy of Buddhism.
• 39:45 Preaching to more intellectual and to more emotional people
• 40:30 People who present themselves as intellectual, but are sentimental
• 48:00 How to tell whether man or woman wrote the screenplay
• The best movies and stories combine emotions and intelligence
• 53:00 Radharani being angry when Krishna looked at someone else and mundane woman becoming angry.
• 62:00 Puranas bring out what the material glitter is and how to engage it in Krishna's service, then cut it.
• Upanishads explain that there is no glitter, that the real glitter is the Lord.
• 71:00 Sentiment is not enough to make the relationship work.
• 73:00 The arrogance of youth.
• 79:30 All material philosophies fit into the duality of karma and jnana, but in the spiritual world there is no such duality.
• Buddhi yoga means all the activities of karma with the detachment of jnana
• 88:45 Nice elements in the universal form are there due to inclination towards the Lord, and vice versa.
• But even the in the nicest situations in the material world there is death
• The Lord's dealing with demigods and demons is reciprocal.
• The wife acts within the environment provided by the husband.