Sri MadBhagavadGeeta

Yoga Jnaana Saaraamsam

(The Essense of the knowlede and
practice)
By
Sree Raamaananda Paramahamsa

Sree Raamaananda Yoga-Jnaanaashramamu

Kamannavalasa, Badangi Mandalam 532578
Vizianagaram District & Bhavaneepuram, Vijayawada-1
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Foreword
- Sadguru Sree Antarmukhananda Swami (disciple & successor)

The Song Divine has

Countless commentaries & commentators
Rare & few - realized the essence
Important: Every chapter ends with
phrase: Brahmavidyaayam, Yoga
Saastre
Practitioners of Yogam can only realize
the heart of Yogeeswar Lord Krishna
Mere sanskrit scholarship leads to no
where
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Sree Raamaananda Paramahamsa

Kept Silent and Celibate,
deep penance (praanayaam alias yogam)
Lived in dense forests and caves in mountains
Realized Non-Dual experience
Revealed the secrets in Bhagavadgeeta
Established: Path to liberation explained in 2
ways
Saamkhya Yogam - for the Extraordinary
Karma Yogam for the Ordinary
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Karma Yogam: (Yogah Chittavritti Nirodhah)

- Praanaayamam: Act of restraint of the mind
- Mind - Habitual, endless circles of avocation
Preparation:
- Study of Geetasaaram,
- the prologue by Sadguru Sree Raamananda
- makes the meanings of scripture crystal clear
- Learning about the Authors life of penance
- Reveals the depth of his experience helps too

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Given name in childhood: Kunjappa
Nambiar
Place of birth: Kalliyaseri village, near
Kannanur, Keral state, India
Date of birth: 27 March 1902 (Solar
calendar Month: Meena, Birth
Star: Swati
Mother: Sreemati Parvati
Father: Sree Kunjakutti Elluttachan
Lost father at the age of 5 year
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Father is an enlightened man and Yogi

Witnessed the demise from the keyhole
the cheerful departure from body
in front of his disciples and merger in light
Mother gave pious and disciplined grooming
Ardent devotee of Goddess Durga
Learned Smriti & Puraana (ancient scriptures)
Grew up with detachment
Elder brother Sree Kannan Nambiar - Police
Inspector
Joined the Job as Surveyor by his instructions
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Deepened Disinterest in worldly affairs
Kept up pursuit of boundless happiness
Searched for Master / Teacher
Surrendered to Sadguru Sree Sivaananda
Paramahamsa
Who was also known as Apara Vaalmeeki
Maharshi
Studied his title Sidhavedam
Started to practice Yogam alias Praanaayaam
Example of Divinity accrued from his past
Good omen for the prospective disciples

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Got the formality of direct initiation
fulfilled
Quit job and Intensified the penance /
yogam
Left home, mother, brother and
relatives
Moved on for intense penance alone
Kept moving around in India via
Tirupati, Yerpedu (south)
to Hrishikesh, Panchamrit, Laxman
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Unable to appreciate the food habits, After

few months, moved west to Mumbai
Fell sick and spent 6 months in a homage
Baanaganga
Moved to down south along the river
Godavari banks to costal Andhrapradesh
Met Sanyasin in the city of Vizianagaram
Resolved for lifetime celibacy, embracing
yellow robes, the symbol of traditional Sanyas
Turned Swami Ramaananda

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Kept moving around places trying to find

suitable place for penance as places
convenient for living werent conducive
to penance and vice a versa...
Finally inhabited a britishers medical
godown and performed penance for long
with just a loin cloth in Rajahmundry
Once that place became populous, agian
faced the challenge of finding another
suitable place
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Continued penance living in the agriculture

fields in make shift huts
Many a times people used to find snakes
crawling around the body of the saint while he
was in deep meditation lying down senseless
At times even build hut around the snake
house it self while offering safety to both
people around and the snakes around
Demonstrated his equal love for all beings
Was renowned and called as Paamula Swami

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He witnessed the killing of a cow by a
couple of tigers in the wild when he was
in penance in the forests around
Bhadraachalam
He even became averse and ignored
even taking food after that
Moved to a cave near Yogee Janaardana
Swami Temple in Dhavaleswaram on the
bank of River Godavari
carried out deep penance for 3 yrs
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Even there he shared the living space with a
king cobra as witnessed by Justice Late Sri
Venkata Krishnayya
For being in silence for long, he was known as
Mouna(silent) Swami.
It is in this cave, that he experienced non-dual
There after, he continued his journey of
distributing the nectar of his experience to the
world at large for the well being of all those
who approached him and groomed them to be
wise

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Stayed in Budhas Siva Temple for few days in
Vijayawada enroute to Chennai from
Dhavaleswaram
With his natural stormy address, clarified the
Vedic Scholars, and turned them his admirers
As the admirers increased, some of the early
disciples Late Sree Ogirala Ramamurthy,
Sree Kota Mallayya, Sree Seetapati, Sreemati
Lakshmi Narasamma etc. Established the
great Yoga Jnaana Ashram with their
donations.

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Sreemathi Bathula Venkaayammas services with
utmost devotion to were commendable during the time
in Dhavalewaram
Fortunate and past virtues of the people of the north
costal andhra, Swamiji desired another peaceful abode
and thus blessed the people with an Ashram in this
vicinity in Kamannavalasa of vizianagaram district,
despite there was a big ashram in Vijayawada
In no time the brahmin residing in a hut agreed to sell
his place, Swamiji installed the picture of Paramaguru
Sree Sivaananda Paramahamsa and inaugurated the
Sree Swami Raamaananda Yoga Jnaana Ashram and
blessed it to be the crown in Ashrams and Brindavan
forKaliyug

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Started blessing the devotees by
distributing his experiential
knowledge and essence of triset of
scriptures Brahma Sootrams,
Upanishats and Bhagavadgeeta by
way of his unparalleled fluency of
discourses.
In no time, he kept enlightening the
multifaceted professionals turned his
disciples by his candid teachings and
easy explainations
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Advayam Samanupraapya Jadavalloka
maachartet
Swaameejee used to appear ignorant and
move like an ordinary man for about 12
years from 1963 to 1975 kept away from
public
But soon after that many doctors and
scientists, lawyers, rationalists, atheists,
scholars of all scriptures were attracted to
the fragrant nectar from title
Yogaamrutam
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His spiritual discourses logically
addressed and clarified all the doubts
Kept initiating scores of devotees day
by day
Some of the key points of his
discourses are:

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Meaning of Reading Bhagavad-Gita is:
not mere recitation of the verses
Stretching Praana produced as sound
OM up to BhrahmaRandhram (is the
subtle centre of head / core of
intelligence) via Sushumna and
merging in the SUPREME SELF
By the above process the limited
energy (ordinary being) transforms as
limitless energy GOD
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Upward and inward thrust of the vital force
(Praana) traversing above and beyond the
physical and mental planes to spiritual plane,
ones own small self (i) turns all favourable
supreme self (I- Omni potent & Omni
present)
Downward thrust of the same vital force
(Praana) by turning and outwards tending
towards physical and mental planes turns
against to ones own SELF
Uddhredaatmanaatmaanam ....
Ripuraatmanah
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Only Yogi can act without attachment
Able to detach/forego the fruits of
the actions
Doesnt get entangled and get
carried away
Can turn his mind inwards and stay
centered in SUPREME SELF
Doesnt need to bear the brunt of
results of acts/deeds having
detached himself
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Satva ( pious / broad ), Rajas ( Aggressive /
restless ) & Tamas ( cruel / narrow / lethargic )
characters of the mind form due to the up/in and
down/out vibrations of the Praana (vital force)
Maaya the illusion is nothing but the formation due
to the combination of the triad ( Satva Rajas
Tamas )
Crossing beyond the illusion of the triad ( Satva
Rajas Tamas ) is possible by the merger of Praana
(vital force) completely in the Bhroomadhya
(center of the forehead) through the practice of
Praanayaam (Stretching of vital force from the
bottom up to top)
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Cause of all diseases is Kapham (Cholesterol)
Yogaagni (Fire from the Yogam / Praanaayam)
is the extinguisher of Kapham, thus it is the
remedy for all diseases
Bliss and ignorance are the resultants of the
level of mental energy
Friction between Praana (upward thrust of the
life force) and Apaana (downward thrust of the
life force) lights up bliss and eradicates
darkness of ignorance completely at its peak
level

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Vibration of the Praana (vital force) is the
cause of fickleness of the mind
Cessation of the vibration of the praana
(vital force) is the key to liberation
Customary Pooja (offerings), Stotra (praise),
Japa (chanting), meditation (physical
silence) are not the means to liberation
The 18 chapters of the Bhagavadgeeta
have not meant 18 different pathways to
salvation

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Yogam (Praanaayam) alone is the path to
salvation though referred to by many
names
Swaameejees teachings established by apt
interpretation of the Sruti (Sacred
scriptures), Yukti (logical intelligence) and
Self Experience
Swameejis teachings used to create ripples
of Goosebumps to the students
Used to accept appropriate services at
Ashram
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Showered buttery blessings on countless
disciples
Made his life exemplary and memorable for
ever in the minds of disciples
Turned Kamannavalasa in to Heavenly
abode (alias Brindaavan in this Era of Kali
which is known for deterioration of values
and culture)
Blessed that his divine message will catch
up like wild fire to enlighten scores of
devotees
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Delegated appropriate duties at the
Ashram to deserving disciples
accordingly
Lived as Jeevanmukta (liberated sole)
up to 91 years in physical form
Merged in to the SUPREME on
Tuesday the 9th of March 1993 and
started glowing as THAT in all that is
seen around in this physical place

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Hence it is appealed to all the aspirants of
salvation to please
Not to get confused by the readings of the
literary translations of the Bhagavadgeeta
by the professors lacking SELF experience
Please study the translation of my revered
teacher in Telugu and relish the taste of the
true nectar of happiness (TRUTH)
Yours faithfully
Dr. Vandaana Venkateswararao
(A humble dust particle on the sacred lotus feet of Sree Sree Sree Sadguru Raamaananda Paramahamsa)

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Geetaa Saaram...1
(Essence of Bhagavadgita)

Humans aspire for comforts at all times by the

very nature
All his efforts are always directed towards
accomplishing comforts yet unable to achieve the
perpetual state of comfort
Every comfort is accompanied by grief always
There has been continuous struggle by the
intelligent to achieve state of comfort that is
devoid of grief.
The pursuit of getting rid of the vicious circle of
birth and death filled with alternating comfort and
grief is termed as the path to salvation/liberation

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Geetaa Saaram...2
(Essence of Bhagavadgita)

Liberation or Salvation: The state of Happiness

that is beyond the state of pleasure that
alternates with predominant state of pain
Rishis (Saints) blessed the mankind with various
paths in the form of several hymns in spiritual
texts
Lord Srikrishna clarified that the path to the state
of bliss is formed as two approaches namely
Yogam and Jnaanam in the Bharata Samhita

Hymn: Bhagavadgita 3-3

Lokesmin Dvividhaa Nishthaa Puraa Proktaa Mayaanagha
Jnaanayogena Saamkhyaanam Karmayogena Yoginaam ||

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Geetaa Saaram...3
(Essence of Bhagavadgita)
By this its clear that Lord Srikrishna declined any
other approaches by giving preference to Yogam and
Jnaanam. It is very difficult to comprehend and
practice the approach of Jnaanam for any normal
human that is entangled in vicious worldly
avocations.
Most people are unable to achieve the liberation from
the relapsing pleasures and pains of life through the
approach of Jnaanam, due to the distraction of the
human mind in many ways.
Hymn: from Vedanta Pamchadasi
Bahuvyakula Chitaanaam Vichaarattatvadheernahi
Yogomukhyastarasteshaam Dheedarpastena Nasyati

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Geetaa Saaram...4
(Essence of Bhagavadgita)

Self knowledge cant be comprehended by

pondering about it while mind is troubled in
many worries
Learned people emphasized that, human mind
cant abstain from avocation even for a moment
Nahi Kaschit Khanamapi Jaatu
Tishthatyakarmakrut ref. Bhagavadgita
One has to bear the consequences having
indulged in actions
One continuous to be in the birth-death cycle
thus
Mind that is habituated to actions, is incapable
of retraction from the tendency to act, and
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hence cant attain the ultimate state of bliss
Geetaa Saaram...5
(Essence of Bhagavadgita)
Hence it was made evident that practice of Yogam is the
preferred approach to win over egoistic mind as referred to in
Vedanta Panchadasi and in Bhagadgita Karmayogena
Yoginaam as emphasized by Lord Srikrishna
It doesnt mean to totally deny Jnaana path
It is easier and possible to regulate the highly distracted mind
by the practice of Yogam which is the act of balancing the
breath in both nostrils that represent the opposite vital forces
Praana and Apaana leading to concentration of the mind
resulting in refinement of the impurities in intelligence.
Such pure intellect has the capacity to comprehend the Self
Knowledge required to attain the state of bliss that is beyond
the states of ever changing experience of pains and pleasures
It is similar to the technique of running rope through the
nostrils of a mighty bull to control and utilize its power as
desired in farming etc.

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Geetaa Saaram...6
(Essence of Bhagavadgita)

Yogam is the practice of Pranaayaam to cleanse

the mind and orient it towards Self-Knowledge
Lord Srikrishna blessed the mankind by his
graceful gift of elucidation about the practice of
Praanaayam through his beloved disciple and a
great warrior Arjuna
Approach of Jnaana is useful for enlightenment
for One who attains the state of clean intellect
(unbiased) and a detached mind by the virtuous
living of over several lifetimes
The path of Yogam is useful for every common
human, where as the path of Jnaanam caters to
the exceptional humans with extraordinary
intellectual and detached minds
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Geetaa Saaram...7
(Essence of Bhagavadgita)
According to the line from Karmayogam, Bandhanam
Manaso Nityam Karmayogassa uchyate it isto be known
that the practice that stabilizes the mind is Praanaayaam
Any act of involving the body, mind, life force etc. is
termed as Karma
It is justified to term Praanaayam as Karmayogam
because it also involves actions of the body, mind, life
force etc.
A person practicing Yogam accomplishes the detached
state of mind is termed Yogi, and his actions in the
course of life are termed Nishkaama Karma as were
performed without motives whose bearing of fruits
(success/failure) are no matter of concern to the actor
involved
Hence a Yogi is the one not bound by his actions and
consequences is known as Liberated and Enlightened by35
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the knowledge of SELF
Geetaa Saaram...8
(Essence of Bhagavadgita)
Hymn: Baswarajna Ratnateeka to the Haradutta Gankaarika
Praanaayaama Visuddhaatmaa Yasmaatpasyati Tatparam
Tasmaannatah Paramkimchit Praanaayaamaa Ditisruteh
Mind is cleansed by practice of Praanaayaam and is capable of
visualizing the Paramaatma (The Supreme SELF)
It is explained in Bhagavadgita also that cleansing (concentration)
and winning over cravings of the mind and actions by the body
organs are attained by the practice of Yogam (Praanaayaam)
Hymn: Ref. Bhagavadgita 5-7
Yogayukto Visuddhaatmaa Vijitaatmaa Jitendriyah
A Yogi that masters practice of Praanaayaam attains cleansed
mind that is devoid of biases and Equanimeous vision.
First hand Imperience (Feeling the omnipotence and omnipresence
of the non-dual SUPREME SELF within) is Equanimeous vision
This is also known as WISDOM.
Self knowledge from the study, understanding and experience in
duality is ordinary
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