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What is Yoga vashistha? How it can help us?

Yoga vasistha is one of Gita in Hinduism, conversation between sree Ramachandra and Vasistha Muni ji (vasu ~ human, vasistha ~ greatest among humans). It contains 32000 slokas in sankritra language. It is based on theory of non-origination. In Yoga vasistha sree Ramchandra ask questions and vasistha ji answer Rama's query. Yoga vasistha dated back in between 11 th to 14 th century A.D. Story behind Yoga vasistha, why God himself need to solve queries from Vasistha ji? In his young age, sree Ramachandra wanted to go for roam in india. He asked for permission to King Dasaratha (father of Rama). Dasratha told him to go on pilgrimage tour of whole india. He visited many devotional places in india while he was in tour. At that time he experienced many spiritual and self realization incident, Because of this he wanted to take sanyasa!   After returning from tour, Rama like to stay alone. After some time, King Dasartha come to know about Sree Rama's situation. King Dasa...

Various types of Gita And their knowledge

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First what is meaning of Gita? Gita is sanskrita word, it means Song! Many people believes that Bhagavad Gita is only one gita in Hinduism, But there are many Gita in Hindu methodology. The main gita is Bhagavad Gita, The devine song by Krishna(supreme God) himself. Bhagvad Gita is greatest Book among hinduism books because it is given to us by krishna!   Bhagavad Gita is part of the Bhisma Parva, which is the sixth chapter of the epic Mahabharata. Gita Govinda is a poem written by Jayadeva in the 12th century AD, that describes the romantic dalliance between Krishna and Radha. Bhagavatam or Bhagavat Purana is the story of Vishnu also known as Bhagavan, or God, focusing especially on Krishna. It is dated to between 9th and 13th century AD. Bhagavad Gita was thus written at least a thousand years before Gita Govinda and Bhagavatam . The setting for each Gita is unique but poignant. Each has a setting that leads to a conversation between the seeker (with questions) and the ...