A miracle happened

I was doing my (seriously ) 50 page lab report... don't ask... and I hated every minute of it, I had to do it with 2 other people who had absolutely *NO* idea what they were doing, more than half of my time I had to just waste explaining to them what we did, what we are doing and what to do .
I am angry, mad and pissed off and all of a sudden there are these thoughts and I am very depressed about my stupid lab report and I feel like I have no life, I feel like I don't enjoy any of it, that I really hate my life and why I am doing the things that I do. And all of a sudden, my sister calls me , she says she has a gift for me and I thinking "gift , now?" I tell her that I am busy , but go see her anyway, and there it is... she hands me a book named Bhagavad Gita, she says its for me, she got it for free from a hare krishna who was distributing some books. All of a sudden, I feel this sudden calmness that I have not experienced in a long time (atleast a week) , I take it and read the karma yoga and go back to my work and i finish it , all by myself. Anyway I take this as a sign from God that everything is going to be fine... I don't know if you call this a miracle, but I felt that it is and I really enjoy sharing it with you all here... at good old hipforums at 2:00am in the morning. Time to sleep!

 

Srila Prabhupada's Gita, of course...

 

Doesn't really matter....

 

Correct me if Im wrong, but I believe it was Sri Krishna's gita last time I checked.

 

An Jedi, yes it is beautiful. I have experienced such miracles in my life also. For example, my guru was conducting a bhagavat saptah in his ashram in the himayalas and I wanted to go very badly. But it clashed with myannual examinations and I couldnt go. Then, wonder of wonders, a by election came up in my state and all examinations were advanced by a month, so I could go!

 

Lighten up, people. I was just having a chuckle.

 

Yes, it did have prabhupada's commentary, but whether it was chinmayananda's or prabhupada's , I cannot deny the way it made me feel.

 

And, seriously, that's the important thing.

I just got a smile on my face when you said that a Gita bought from a Hare Krishna helped you through a bad night.

People on this forum tend to disrespect Prabhupada and dismiss him as not being a "real" guru. It was nice to hear that someone here besides myself has gotten something of value from one of his books.

 

Well sometimes truth hurts, a slap in the face is not something that people take as a good way of waking up (even if it is from a guru), although it does wake them up, but anyway lets not get into that.

Well, about the "realness" of a guru, the question about what is real? should be answered... Do you think an authentic guru is someone who has come from either Ramanuja, Madvacharya or Shankaracharya? Or someone who knows a few sanskrit verses and can interpret them the way he/she likes?

One might ask "well, where did they get the knowledge?" , one simple answer would be vyasa, where did he get it from?- narada, where did he get it from? Brahma- when you reach brahma, they will say it is all mythology...so what exactly is real? what is truth and what is fiction?
Some say they all believe this until the brahma part and then they say it differs from there on... so I think it is said somewhere that if one is planning to go somewhere, he knows his path and he has only one path, while the people who are not going anywhere have many paths to take.

 

The shastras say a Guru is one who is shrotriya and brahmanishta. Shrotriya means learned in scriptures, intellectually sound and capable of answering all doubts and arguments with true logic. Brahmanishta means firmly established in brahman, or in other words, an enlightened person.

As for where did the knowledge come from. This is not knowledge like other forms of knowledge, which are knowledge of something. This is knowledge itself, which exists without a cause, being nothing other than that eternal brahman (satyam, gnanam, anantam brahma - brahman is truth, knowledge and infinity). The knoweldge is eternal, it is eternally available to us when we tune ourselves to it. It is not caused or discovered, it is causeless and the source of all.

 

I'm into the stephen mitchell translation of the gita, that just goes through it verse by verse with no commentary. Anybody ever read this version?