“He who is without attachment, who does not rejoice when he obtains good, nor lament when he obtains evil, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.57)

“All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rain. Rains are produced by performance of yajna [sacrifice], and yajna is born of prescribed duties.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 3.14)

“The goddess Durga was decorated with flower garlands, smeared with sandalwood pulp and dressed with excellent garments and ornaments made of valuable jewels. Holding in her hands a bow, a trident, arrows, a shield, a sword, a conchshell, a disc and a club, and being praised by celestial beings like Apsaras, Kinnaras, Uragas, Siddhas, Charanas and Gandharvas, who worshiped her with all kinds of presentations, she spoke as follows. ‘O Kamsa, you fool, what will be the use of killing me? The Supreme

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 35The greatest warrior of his age lay on the ground, held above it by arrows. They had pierced him from head to foot, so many, and so close together, that he did not touch the earth. His body rested on their shafts. But his head hung down, unsupported. And he was thirsty.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 34 first.Source note. Label: scripture and tradition. Bhishma's vow, his boon of choosing the time of death, his fall on the tenth day of

“Good and bad, which are part of the illusion created by Hari, cannot be removed without worshiping Hari. Keeping this in mind, worship Rama and renounce all desires.” (Dohavali, 127)

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 34In the middle of a temple in Bihar, in a silver basin, there is a footprint carved in stone. It is about forty centimetres long. It is cut into a single block of dark basalt. And pilgrims from all over India queue for hours to stand beside it, and to say the name of their father. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode thirty-four, day six. It is a short one. In the last three episodes we told the story of a demon whose body became

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 33Two brothers went to town to buy supplies for a funeral rite, and left a woman alone by a river. And, in some tellings, out of the river's sand a hand rose, and a voice said: I am hungry. Feed me. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode thirty-three, day six. If you have not heard the last episode, it tells how, in Valmiki's Ramayana, Rama offered forest fruit and berries for his dead father, and how tradition says he later went to

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 32When Rama learned that his father was dead, he fainted. He was in the forest, in exile, a hermit's dress on his back. His younger brother Bharata had walked all the way from Ayodhya to find him. And Bharata, weeping, told him the news that Rama had not heard in all the years of his banishment. The king, Dasharatha, had died of grief, calling his son's name.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 31 first.Source note. Label: scripture and

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 31There is a town in Bihar where, every autumn, hundreds of thousands of people come with a single purpose. They come to offer rice-balls to their dead. The town is called Gaya. And according to the tradition, it is named after a demon. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode thirty-one, and the start of our sixth day. For five days we have told stories about ancestors, about death, and about the road beyond it. Today we go to a real

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 30Every story we have told today has one figure in common. He waited for a hungry boy at his door. He came in person, out of respect, for a good man in a forest. He walked a road with a woman behind him, and gave her back her husband. He was tricked, honoured, and defied. And in the oldest text of the Indian tradition, he is something even stranger.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 18 first.Source note. Label: scripture. The verses are

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 29The forest was very quiet when she came back. Savitri ran through the trees, the way she had come, until she reached the place where her husband's body lay. She knelt down. She lifted his head onto her lap, just as she had before. And Satyavan opened his eyes.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 12 first.Source note. Label: scripture and tradition. The ending, that Satyavan wakes, that they return at night, that Dyumatsena regains his sight,

“In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as possible, Hiranyakashipu was dissatisfied because instead of controlling his senses he remained their servant.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.4.19)

ನಮ್ಮ ಮೆದುಳು ಈ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿನ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ಕೃಷ್ಟ ಯಂತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲೊಂದು. ಅದನ್ನು ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಲು ಪ್ರಕೃತಿ ಕೋಟ್ಯಂತರ ವರ್ಷಗಳನ್ನೇ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಈಗ ಅದೇ ನಿಮಗೆ ಮುಳುವಾಗಿ ಪರಿಣಮಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆಯೇ? ಆನಂದ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಯಂತ್ರ ತೊಳಲಾಟಗಳನ್ನು ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸುತ್ತಿದೆಯೇ? ಇದಕ್ಕೆ ಪರಿಹಾರ ಏನು? ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ವಿಡಿಯೋ ನೋಡಿ.‘ಇನ್ನರ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರಿಂಗ್ ಆನ್ ಲೈನ್’ ಅನ್ನು ಸವಾಲಿನ ಸಮಯಕಾಗಿ 50%ಗೆ ಅರ್ಪಿಸಲಾಗುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಇದು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಲಭ್ಯ. ನೋಂದಾಯಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು : http://kannada.sadhguru.org/ieo COVID ಯೋಧರಿಗೆ ಉಚಿತ! English video: •Video ’ಕಾವೇರಿ ಕೂಗು’ ಅಭಿಯಾನಕ್ಕೆ ನಿಮ್ಮ ದೇಣಿಗೆ ನೀಡಿ:

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 28A father is offered a choice that no parent should have to make. He has prayed for years for a son. The god Shiva appears and says: I will grant your wish. But there are two kinds of son. One will be good, learned, and devout, and will live only sixteen years. The other will be dull and cruel, and will live a long life. Which do you choose?Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 27 first.Source note. Label: purana and tradition. The legend of

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 27He stopped, turned around, and looked at her. She was still there. Barefoot, dust on her robe, her hair loose from the long walk. She was following him. And Death, who has never in the history of the world been followed by a living person, said: Savitri. Go back.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 26 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Mahabharata, Vana Parva, the Savitri Upakhyana, Ganguli numbering around sections

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 26Three days before, she stopped eating. She stood, the story says, day and night, in a vow, while her husband and his parents watched her with worry. No one knew why. She had never asked for anything. She had served them, all year, in silence. And now, without explanation, she was fasting and keeping vigil, as though preparing for a battle.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 25 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 25A princess is told, by one of the wisest sages in the world, that the man she loves will die in exactly one year. She does not weep. She does not argue. She does not change her mind. She says: I have chosen. I will not choose again.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 24 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Mahabharata, Vana Parva, the Pativrata Mahatmya section, the Savitri Upakhyana, told by Markandeya to

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 24How do you know what is right? Not what is legal, or what is expected, or what your family thinks. What is truly right, when the rules run out, and the books disagree, and every clever person has a different opinion. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode twenty-four, the last of our fourth day. It is a short one. In the last episode we stood at the lake of the Yaksha, and heard Yudhishthira answer the most famous questions in the

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 23Four strong men lie dead beside a lake, and their eldest brother is thirsty. The water is right there. It is clear and cool. The four brothers who went to fetch it have not come back. And now the eldest, alone, walks to the shore, and finds them lying on the ground, without a wound on them. Then a voice speaks.Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 22 first.Source note. Label: scripture. This story is from the Mahabharata, Vana Parva, Aranyaka

“The Blessed Lord said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead.” (Bhagavad-gita, 2.11)