Ravi Ranganathan Podcast

Episode 78 of podcast "BG - yah pashyati sa pashyati"

With Episode 78 this podcast has reached the final chapter of BG. The final eighteenth chapter is the longest chapter in BG and it covers all the …

Episode 77 covers the final part of chapter 17. In the first three parts we have seen the influence of the three guNAs, sattva, rajas and tamas on faith we have, food we consume, sacrifices we perfor…

Episode 74 starts chapter 17. This chapter is titled as shraddhAtrayabhAga yogo, The glories of three fold faith.  You can see this chapter as an extension of chapter fourteen. If Chapter fourteen is…

Chapter 16 is a unique chapter in the sense that the entire chapter 16 has a battlefield context.  As part of the chapter appreciation, episode 73 will cover the battlefield context of the divine and…

Episode 71 covered twenty six divine and six demoniac values. Episode 72 cover the philosophy and life style of demoniac people.

Episode 71 covers twenty six divine values and six demonic values.

Episode 70 covers the final verses of chapter 15 where Bhagavan stresses the importance of sAstrAs. The episode also includes chapter appreciation, where Consciousness in some of the Indian darsans i…

The previous episode 68 covered who is the nourisher of the body and how nourishment is created for beings to have a life. Episode 69 covers who digests the food we eat and who is purushottama, the b…

What is the difference between a jeevAtma and paramAtmA? What does jeevAtmA move from one body to another mean? After death, what does jeevAtmA take along with it and how does it do it? Where is nour…

Episode 67 continues the metaphor of an Upside Down Tree from the previous episode. This upside down tree represents samsArA. Even though the samsArA itself is eternal, individual samsArA can be cut …

This episode covers, how to identify a person who has crossed the three guNAs. BhagavAn gives 12 qualities of the person who has crossed the three guNAs.  This is like a short summary of the teaching…

Episode 64 focusses on how to identify a person who has crossed the three guNAs, a guṇātītaḥ,  Bhagavan lists twelve qualities of the person who has crossed over the three guNAs.  In this epsiode we …

Episode 62 continues the chapter 13 appreciations. This episode covers the interesting story of creation as per kashmir shaivism,  aadi sankara's imaginary dialogue to make his point that samsarA is …