Gita Subodhini Sunday Class - 08.11.

2020

only one Sloka for today # 2.07

kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ
pṛcchāmi tvāṁ dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ
yac chreyaḥ syān niścitaṁ brūhi tan me
śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam

Please read the complete translation & purport

After reading the purport explain the following:

- Everyone in this world in someway or other is suffering like how Arjuna is

suffering without spiritual master.
- you can narrate a story of how pandavas took guidance of Spiritual master,
Dhaumya Risi to get protection.
How Vyasa advices all the pandavas when they are in the forest to search, find and
accept a bonafide strong brahmana and wise and knowledgeable Person as a Guru

The pandavas as per the advice of Vyasa Maharishi look and upon the advice of Vyasa
chose a Guru Dhaumya and take his shellter and serve him.most sincerely.
Dhaumya protects , guides and instructs the Pandavas since then.
During the incognito Pandavas were helplessly and without any shelter going around
in the forest. Totally having lost everything and they were in great trouble.

Dhaumya: A great sage who practiced severe penances at Utkocaka Tīrtha and was
appointed royal priest of the Pāṇḍava kings. He acted as the priest in many
religious functions of the Pāṇḍavas (saṁskāra), and also each of the Pāṇḍavas was
attended by him at the betrothal of Draupadī. He was present even during the exile
of the Pāṇḍavas and used to advise them in circumstances when they were perplexed.
He instructed them how to live incognito for one year, and his instructions were
strictly followed by the Pāṇḍavas during that time. His name is mentioned also when
the general funeral ceremony was performed after the Battle of Kurukṣetra. In the
Anuṣāsana-parva of Mahābhārata (127.15-16), he gave religious instructions very
elaborately to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira. He was actually the right type of priest of a
householder, for he could guide the Pāṇḍavas on the right path of religion. A
priest is meant for guiding the householder progressively in the right path of
āśrama-dharma, or the occupational duty of a particular caste. There is practically
no difference between the family priest and the spiritual master. The sages, saints
and brāhmaṇas were especially meant for such functions.

- Need for spiritual master. Even in material aspects we need spiritual master.
- Why we need Spiritual master. To explain us what is Dharma what is not.
- What should we expect from Spiritual master. Spiritual master is for eternal gain
not for material gain. one who is looking for long term goal of life.
- One when surrendered, Arjuna was helped by Krishna.
- Spiritual talk are not casual talks, one needs to be seriously inquisitive.

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