A Study of the Bhagavadgita -1.12 Swami Krishnananda

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27/02/2020.
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 12.
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#The restlessness that you feel in this world and the unhappiness that characterises your daily life will tell you that life in this world as a human being is not complete. 

##If human life is complete, you would be happy always and no problem would be facing you. There would be no anxiety of any kind if human life is the last point, the terminus.
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#The Upanishads say there are realms of being that transcend human life, and modern evolutionary doctrine says there are species above the mineral, the plant and the animal, leading to the human species. 

##The Upanishads say that there are realms of being, denizens occupying a different order of life altogether, larger than what can be comprehended by a human being. 

###The Gandharvas, the Devas, the realm of Brihaspati, Narayana and Nara, up to Prajapati, Brahma, Virat, Hiranyagarbha, Ishvara, and the Absolute, are used to take your mind beyond the concept of human satisfaction and human limitation.
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#Life is not complete merely with bread and jam. 

##Even with the best of comforts that you have in this world, you are still very poor in comparison with the great blessing that is ahead of you. 

###That will be opened up in a series through the chapters of the Bhagavadgita, which are eighteen in number. 

####There are also eighteen books of the Mahabharata. They seem to be designating a gradational ascent of teaching, the movement of the spirit of man in an advance in the direction of higher and higher dimensions of experience until God-experience becomes the fulfillment of life.
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To be continued ...
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