A Study of the Bhagavadgita -1.6 Swami Krishnananda

========================================================================

========================================================================

#Armed Forces Flag Day : 7th December, 2019.
https://youtu.be/zArxHZn-XCo#Hon.
RM Rajnath Singh's message on #ArmedForcesFlagDay
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contributions to AFFD Fund : PAY ONLINE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
KENDRIYA SAINIK BOARD SECRETARIAT
Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare
Ministry of Defence, Government of India
http://ksb.gov.in/DonateAFFDF.htm
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

07/12/2019.
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 6

=====================================================================

The great work of Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa, who wrote the Mahabharatam, is not merely a story that you can witness as a television drama, as you have it these days. It is not a novel which you can read at your leisure for your own personal pleasure.

It is a study of human nature. It is a history, no doubt, but not merely a political history like the history of England, Europe or India, as you read in your colleges.

This is a history of human character, the development of the human psyche, and the ups and downs of human development throughout the process of the march of time – not merely confined to a particular point in time.

So you may say this great epic of the Mahabharatam is a history of the time process, not the history of India, not the history of the Bharatas. It is the history of humanity as conceivable in the very structure of the time process itself.

The term ‘humanity’ should be understood in the context of the creation of the world itself, and not in the light of the anthropological or the modern historical findings which commence human history sometime after 3000-4000 B.C.

The history of the world did not start only at that time; it began when creation itself started.

When Brahma created Manu, or God created Adam and Eve, you may say, history commenced. Therefore, for you, from the point of view of what you may have to learn from the Bhagavadgita, history may be regarded as a cosmic process.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-11. Slokam-32.


Sri-Bhagavan Uvacha :

"kalo ’smi loka-kshaya-krit pravriddho lokan samahartum iha pravṛittaḥ

rite ’pi tvam na bhavishyanti sarve ye ’vasthitah pratyanīkeshu yodhah"

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sri-Bhagavan Uvacha—The Supreme Lord said;

kalah—time;

asmi—I am;

loka-kshaya-krit—the source of destruction of the worlds;

pravriddhah—mighty;

lokan—the worlds;

samahartum—annihilation;

iha—this world;

pravrittah—participation;

rite—without;

api—even;

tvam—you;

na bhavishyanti—shall cease to exist;

sarve—all; ye—who;

avasthitah—arrayed;

prati-anikeshu—in the opposing army;

yodhah—the warriors

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Translation :

The Supreme Lord said: I am mighty Time, the source of destruction that comes forth to annihilate the worlds. Even without your participation, the warriors arrayed in the opposing army shall cease to exist.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Kalo’smi loka-kshaya (Gita 11.32):

“I am here before you as the world-transforming Time Spirit.”

To be continued ...

=======================================================================