A Treatise on Pure Human Psychology
By Upendranath Dasa
Website Page Particulars & Essentials
Author’s Notes
How I First Made Contact with Bhagavad-gita As It Is
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
A Treatise on Pure Human Psychology
Chapter 1: Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra
Chapter 2: Contents of the Gita Summarized
Chapter 3: Karma-yoga
Chapter 4: Transcendental Knowledge
Chapter 5: Karma-yoga-Action in Krishna Consciousness
Chapter 6: Dhyana-yoga
Chapter 7: Knowledge of the Absolute
Chapter 8: Attaining the Supreme
Chapter 9: The Most Confidential Knowledge
Chapter 10: The Opulence of the Absolute
Chapter 11: The Universal Form
Chapter 12: Devotional Service
Chapter 13: Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
Chapter 14: The Three Modes of Material Nature
Chapter 15: The Yoga of the Supreme Person
Chapter 16: The Divine and Demoniac Natures
Chapter 17: The Divisions of Faith
Chapter 18: Conclusion-The Perfection of Renunciation
(Please Note! The text for this page are very lengthy.
At this time, this work in in progress, is being edited for posting to the website.
FYI, I first want to say that the Vedic Scripture give not just more than the Biblical Literature: but they give enormously, and superlative more information about the following subject matter:
- God, and His Nature.
- The Spritual World, the Abode of God,
- The Jivas/Souls.
- The material world.
- How the Universe is created and destroyed.
- The Structure of the Spiritual, and Material World, and the region that lays between them.
- The nature of relationship of the jiva/soul, with the material world, and the Spiritual World and God.
This information from Vedic Scripture, and those in pursuant of them, are more voluminous than any other religious scriptures and other writing in pursuant to them, in the whole world combined.
I would like to remind you of some words that Lord Jesus Christ said John 16.12, which he gives a clue to this fact “that there is a lot more information that He could tell his disciple”, but he gave them the reason why He could not when He said that:
- “It is more than you can now hear”,
- “You can’t bear it now”,
- “But you cannot bear them now”,
- “But you cannot bear them at the present time”,
- “But you are not able to grasp it now”,
Just to name a few. See the following Endnote at the end of this sentence, for more references, from various translations of the Holy Bible. [i]
I want to inform you that all the books written by my Spiritual Master Srila Prabhupada, you have the opportunity to listen to Audio Versions on the Website Saragrahi.org. You will find them in the Website Content Page, under the section “Krishna Katha Audio Playlists”; these you may say is the “Tip of the Iceberg”, so to speak.
I will later give you kind of like my own summary as I have learned it from Vedic Scriptures of India. However, I will now list, kind of like a Table of Contents, for some lengthy Vedic knowledge, which you may, or may not desire to consider, if you are not familiar with knowledge from the Vedic Literatures of India. In the following:
- A Book by the title “Vedic Cosmology and Astrology” (VCA),
- The magazine by the title “Origins Magazine” (OM),
- A Section that I have written by the title “Additional Knowledge from Vedic Scriptures.” That has one special item with title ‘Krishna’, a book that was funded by George Harrison of the Beatles in 1970
[i] Lord Jesus Christ says “I have much more to say to you, but your can’t bear it now.”
New International Version: “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.”, “but you cannot bear them at the present time.”
New Living Translation: “There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now.”
English Standard Version: “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
Berean Standard Bible: “I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.”
Berean Literal Bible: “Yet I have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.”
King James Bible: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
New King James Version: “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
New American Standard Bible: “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them at the present time.”
NASrimad-Bhagavatam 1995: “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
NASrimad-Bhagavatam 1977: “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
Legacy Standard Bible: “I still have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
Amplified Bible: “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear [to hear] them now.”
Christian Standard Bible: “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.”
Holman Christian Standard Bible: “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.”
American Standard Version: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
Aramaic Bible in Plain English: “I have much to say to you, but you are not able to grasp it now.”
Contemporary English Version: “I have much more to say to you, but right now it would be more than you could understand.”
Douay-Rheims Bible: “I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.”
English Revised Version: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
GOD’S WORD® Translation: “I have a lot more to tell you, but that would be too much for you now.”
Good News Translation: “I have much more to tell you, but now it would be too much for you to bear.”
International Standard Version: “I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.”
Literal Standard Version: “I have yet many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear [them] now.”
Majority Standard Bible: “I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.”
New American Bible: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.”
NET Bible: “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
New Revised Standard Version: “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.”
New Heart English Bible: “I have yet many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now.”
Webster’s Bible Translation: “I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
Weymouth New Testament: ““I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it.”
World English Bible: “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.”
Young’s Literal Translation: “I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now.”
The following are WORK IN PROGRESS:
- A Book by the title “Vedic Cosmology and Astrology” (VCA),
- The magazine by the title “Origins Magazine” (OM),
- A Section that I have written by the title “Additional Knowledge from Vedic Scriptures.” That has one special item with title ‘Krishna’, a book that was funded by George Harrison of the Beatles in 1970
The Bible doesn’t offer any details about relationships in heaven. Based on the words of Jesus and the New Testament writers, we can be confident that heaven will be a far better place than anything we have experienced in this life and will include reunion with people we love. (See Foot Note Link #7 above for more references)
Does the Bible Assure We Will Reunite with Loved Ones Who Preceded Us in Death? The rich man recognized Lazarus even though they were in different places and separated by a great gulf (Luke 16:19-31). The disciples recognized Moses and Elijah at the transfiguration, though the two great prophets lived many centuries earlier (Matthew 17:1-5). Jesus told the repentant thief in Luke 23:43, “Today you will be with me in Paradise” (nkjv). The apostle Paul said that we will someday have more knowledge than we have now, implying that we will have greater knowledge of other people than now (1 Corinthians 13:12). He also said that it is “far better” to depart and to be with Christ than to remain on earth (2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Philippians 1:22-23).
Christ will be the heavenly Bridegroom and believers will fellowship with Him as His bride (Ephesians 5:22-33; Revelation 19:7-9). There will be no marriage or reproduction in heaven (Matthew 22:23-33), but the fact that God will resurrect us as individuals (See the ATQ article, Does God Value Individuality?) implies we will recognize each other as individuals and remember earthly relationships.
We will no longer need the exclusive relationships that protect us from loneliness and despair in this fallen world, but since heaven is a place of greater and fuller experience than our current life, we will still know and cherish our earthly loved ones. The joys and ecstasy of marital and family love will be far surpassed by perfect intimacy and trust. Perfected bodies and minds will find fulfillment in perfected relationships and a full sense of heavenly joy and gratitude to God.
Q: I know you've probably been asked this before, but will we be reunited with our loved ones in Heaven? I sure hope so. I lost my wife to cancer last year, and about the only thing that keeps me going is the hope that we'll see each other again.
A: Yes, I have every confidence that we will be reunited with our loved ones who have gone to Heaven before us. Heaven is a place of perfect happiness—and one of its greatest joys will be our reunion with those we love. God loves us, and He will not withhold that joy from us!
I think, for example, of King David in the Bible. When his infant son died, he felt his loss very deeply—and yet David was comforted by the fact that some day they would be reunited. When news came of the baby’s death, David declared, “Can I bring him back again? I will go to him” (2 Samuel 12:23).
I think too of the occasion when Jesus’ appearance was changed (or transfigured) and His heavenly glory shone through. We are told that Moses and Elijah also appeared—and they were recognized by the disciples who were with Jesus, proving that we will retain our individuality in Heaven (see Luke 9:28-36).
Take comfort in the truth that if you know Christ and are trusting Him for your salvation, some day you will be reunited with those who have gone to Heaven before you. But take comfort most of all in the fact that you will be with Christ, and you will share in Heaven’s glory. Is your faith and hope in Him? The Bible says, “We know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).
Website Page Particulars & Essentials
Author’s Notes
How I First Made Contact with Bhagavad-gita As It Is
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
A Treatise on Pure Human Psychology
Chapter 1: Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra
Chapter 2: Contents of the Gita Summarized
Chapter 3: Karma-yoga
Chapter 4: Transcendental Knowledge
Chapter 5: Karma-yoga-Action in Krishna Consciousness
Chapter 6: Dhyana-yoga
Chapter 7: Knowledge of the Absolute
Chapter 8: Attaining the Supreme
Chapter 9: The Most Confidential Knowledge
Chapter 10: The Opulence of the Absolute
Chapter 11: The Universal Form
Chapter 12: Devotional Service
Chapter 13: Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
Chapter 14: The Three Modes of Material Nature
Chapter 15: The Yoga of the Supreme Person
Chapter 16: The Divine and Demoniac Natures
Chapter 17: The Divisions of Faith
Chapter 18: Conclusion-The Perfection of Renunciation