The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 6.2. Swami Krishnananda
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Thursday, August 13, 2020. 9:26.PM.
The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita
Chapter 6: Beauty and Duty in the Bhagavadgita-2.
(Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti)
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Today we are in a small gathering, once again attempting to bring to our memories these super-historical mysteries that seem to burst forth in the midst of historical events, the occasions being called in our own language the coming of a Christ, the birth of a Krishna, the advent of a Buddha, the giving of a gospel, the happening of a miracle, or God coming, or a vision being presented before the great saint and sage; it is something which is other than the normal, understanding normalcy in the sense of our acquaintance with the world of sense.
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The context of the Bhagavadgita, the occasion for whose delivery we are bringing to our memories today, was certainly a historical occasion. But that historical occasion could not manage itself. People require a ruler, as they are unable to rule themselves independently; and to discover, to find, and to install an administrator or a ruler of people is to endeavour to fix the location of a significance in their own lives. Everyone knows there must be some significance in the lives of everybody, but we wish to see the significance operating actively in our lives. It is otherwise difficult to understand how we require a ruler at all. It is nothing but the requirement of a principle of operation, understanding and action. We are not expecting a person before us. A ruler is not a person. We are also persons; in what way are we less? That is not actually what we want when we appoint a king, a monarch or a chief administrative power. We do not require a person; we require a location of intelligent interpretation of the values of life, an impartial observance and observation of the needs of the whole populace, which is a crude manifestation before us of the need we feel in our lives for something which is other than our own selves, something other than pure nature, pure earth, pure mountains and trees. Every moment of time, every day of our lives, we require, we feel a need, a necessity, to transcend, to exceed ourselves, and to allow the operation of an understanding which is not necessarily our individual understanding as it acts in a discreet manner in each one of us.
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Everyone has an understanding. There is no one bereft of it totally. If that were the case, where comes the need for a regulation, a system, an operation? Why should we require any kind of rule, constitution and system when everyone has an understanding, everyone knows what is proper, and no one is the less for it? The need is something beyond ordinary human requirement. It is a human requiring a super-human operation. A regulation of any kind, whatever it be, in any measure, in any percentage, is a super-human invading and occupying, controlling the human and the particular.
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