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regard, there is the story of Viśvāmitra Muni, a great king, a kṣatriya, who renounced his kingdom and Viśvāmitra Muni meditated so intently that Indra, the King of heaven, noticed him and thought, “This Menakā was naturally very beautiful, and she was intent on disrupting the muni’s meditations. looked up from his meditation, saw her, and became captivated by her beauty. He was about to flee when Menakā brought his beautiful daughter before him and chastised him.

“This is my doubt, O Kṛṣṇa, and I ask You to dispel it completely. By a yogī, Arjuna is referring to the haṭha-yogī, jñāna-yogī and bhakti-yogī; it is not that meditation The meditator, the philosopher and the devotee are all to be considered yogīs. And how does Śrī Kṛṣṇa answer him?

Actually Arjuna is asking a very appropriate and intelligent question. Sometimes a neophyte devotee does not keep the rules and regulations. It should always be understood that we are weak and that the material energy is very strong. The material energy is trying to entrap the conditioned soul as much as possible, and when the conditioned get out of her clutches by spiritual advancement of knowledge, material nature becomes more stringent and

beginning takes to the process of self-realization but who later desists due to worldly-mindedness and what becomes of the unsuccessful yogī, or the person who attempts to perform yoga but somehow desists and Elsewhere in the Gītā, Śrī Kṛṣṇa points out to Arjuna that out of many men, few strive for perfection, and Even if a man has faith and strives for perfection in the yoga system, Arjuna points out that he may

proprietor of six opulences: He possesses all beauty, all wealth, all power, all fame, all knowledge and of the world may be famous for a few years only, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared five thousand years ago and In Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa speaks to Arjuna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and as such it is to be Kṛṣṇa is complete, and the knowledge that comes from Kṛṣṇa is also complete. And what is this knowledge?

“On taking such a birth, he again revives the divine consciousness of his previous life, and he tries

picks up this knowledge that was interrupted, he should know that he should now finish the balance and leaving this body one will not again take birth in this material world, where birth, old age, disease and Once one has approached Kṛṣṇa and has attempted to make spiritual progress, Kṛṣṇa, who is situated within In the Gītā, Śrī Kṛṣṇa says that for one who wants to remember Him, He gives remembrance, and for one

one with such a good birth should understand that his fortune is due to his previous pious activities and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is stated that every particular person has his own duty in life, regardless of his position and If, however, he gives up his prescribed duty and somehow – either out of sentiment or association or craziness or whatever – takes shelter of Kṛṣṇa, and if, due to his immaturity, he falls from the devotional

Thus the subject in the Sixth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā is quickly dropped by Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna.

(Bg. 6.41–42) There are many planets in the universe, and on the higher planets there are greater comforts , the duration of life is longer, and the inhabitants are more religious and godly.

Similarly, one who takes birth in a pious family or in a brahminical family often becomes very puffed up and There is chance of degradation in both rich and pious families, but one who takes birth in a family of

Although the muni fell for the time being, he again resolved to go on with the yoga process, and this

one enacts a very small amount on the spiritual platform, he takes that with him to his next life, and