1. Gita Camp
Day 5

2. Should we help beggars on the streets? Give 3 reasons

3. Recap Day1 Why read scriptures?
What are vedas and what is contained in them?
Why is Bhagavad Gita the most important scripture?
What does Bhagavad Gita Talk about?
Who was it spoken to and why?

4. Recap Day 2 Arjuna’s Questions
1. what is Brahman (Spirit)?
2. What is “Adhyatma” (the self)?
3. What are Karma (fruitive activities)?
4. What is this adhibhuta (material manifestation)?
5. What are the demigods (Adhidaiva)?
6. Who is the Adhiyajna (Lord of sacrifice)?
7. How does Adhiyajna (Lord of sacrifice) reside?
8. How can those engaged in devotional service know You at the time of death?

5. Recap Day 3
Whatever we remember at time of death, that determines our next life
If we remember Krishna, we can go back to spiritual world
If we Do not remember Krishna, we take another material body
We can remember Krishna at death by remembering Krishna at every moment in our life
Practice is very important to remember Krishna at every moment
Chanting the Holy name daily is the recommended way

6. Recap: Day4 Remembrance through Meditation (10 ways)
Kavi – Knower of everything(Past, present and Future)
Oldest – All born out of him
Controller of everything
Smaller the smallest – In each aton, Heart of living entity
Maintainer of everything
Beyond material conception – Example all planets floating
Achintya (Inconceivable) – beyond out thinking power
Always a person – has a form like us
Luminous like the sun
Transcendental – beyond this material nature

7. Sections of Chapter 8 Krishna's answers to Arjuna’s questions
Section vi (8.23 – 8.28)
Supremacy of pure devotion in attaining Krishna
Section v (8.17 – 8.22)
Comparing the material & spiritual worlds / glories of Supreme abode
Section iv (8.14 – 8.16)
Pure Devotional Service (remembrance of Krishna through Bhakti)
Section iii (8.9 – 8.13)
Remembering Krishna (practice remembrance through meditation)
Section ii (8.5 – 8.8)
Remembering Krishna at the time of death
Section i (8.1 – 8.4)
Krishna's answers to Arjuna’s questions

8. Day 5 Remembering Krishna at the time of death
Section vi (8.23 – 8.28)
Supremacy of pure devotion in attaining Krishna
Section v (8.17 – 8.22)
Comparing the material & spiritual worlds / glories of Supreme abode
Section iv (8.14 – 8.16)
Pure Devotional Service (remembrance of Krishna through Bhakti)
Section iii (8.9 – 8.13)
Remembering Krishna (practice remembrance through meditation)
Section ii (8.5 – 8.8)
Remembering Krishna at the time of death
Krishna's answers to Arjuna’s questions
Section iii (8.9 – 8.13)
Remembering Krishna (practice remembrance through meditation)
Section iv (8.14 – 8.16)
Pure Devotional Service (remembrance of Krishna through Bhakti)

9. Results achieved by practicing pure Bhakti
Section iv (8.14 – 8.16) Pure Devotional Service (remembrance of Krishna through Bhakti)
8.14
For one who always remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Pṛthā, because of his constant engagement in devotional service.
8.15
After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection
8.16
From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kuntī, never takes birth again.
Bhakti is easier path
Results achieved by practicing pure Bhakti

10. 8.14 : Bhakti is easier path Self endeavor “vs” Dependence on Krishna
Requires Prior knowledge
Requires renunciation
Requires favorable situations
No material impediments
Only qualification is sincere desire
Everyone can practice
Self endeavor “vs” Dependence on Krishna
Krishna give the intelligence how to attain him

11. Know the product

12. Optimistic vs Pessimistic
Krishna consciousness is realistic

13. What is this material world?
After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection

14. No one can escape it
abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino 'rjuna mam upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate
From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again.

15. What is the solution?
mam upetya punar janma duhkhalayam asasvatam napnuvanti mahatmanah samsiddhim paramam gatah
abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino 'rjuna mam upetya tu kaunteya punar janma na vidyate