A Study of the Bhagavadgita -1.11 Swami Krishnananda

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05/02/2020.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 11.

Post-11.

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#Sri Krishna’s gospel is God’s gospel to mankind, not merely to people in India, in an eternal setup. It is not a religious gospel of Hinduism, or a religious teaching at all; it is a scientific teaching connected with your relationship with the entire creation. 

##Therefore, ordinary commentaries will not be of much utility to you though, of course, they introduce you to the basic framework of the teaching.

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The Bhagavadgita is the Lord’s song, as they say. Bhagavan is Bhagavat. Song is a musical message that has sprung from God, as it were. When God speaks, He speaks in a language of Eternity. He does not speak in English or Sanskrit or Latin. It is the tongue of the Eternal that spoke here. 

That ferocious and fear-striking picture that is painted in the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is a faint attempt that is made by the best ability of the poet to tell you what you can expect finally when the world does not want you any more. 

#When you go to war, you do not always go with the idea of coming back safe. You may go to the other side also; but what is the use of going to the other side? 

##What is the purpose? 

###Even if death is the outcome of a war which is considered as very unavoidable, what happens to you after death?

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If nothing happens after death, perhaps nothing happens in this life also. There will be no significance in what you do in this world. If the life that you live in this world is full of meaning, there will also be meaning in what happens to you after the passing of this body. 

#Life and death are connected in the life that is eternal. Life is disconnected from death in the life that we live in time; but our life is not merely confined to time. It is timeless. You have taken many births. How many births you have taken, nobody can say. 

##Right from the original will of the Almighty Himself at the time of creation, and the evolutionary process, which is the process of mutation, you have been conditioned to all these subjections to the different species through which you have passed. 

###Bharatiya  tradition says that eighty-four lakhs [8,400,000] of yonis or species are there through which you have to pass before you become a human being, and even the birth of a human being is not the last terminus of human evolution.

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To be continued .....

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