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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharatham and the Bhagavadgita: 1.1 Swami Krishnananda.

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=============================================================================================================== Friday 14, Aug 2026, 10:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharatham and the Bhagavadgita: 1.1 Swami Krishnananda Chapter 1: The Plight of the Pandavas -1. =============================================================================================== The great sage Bhagavan Sri Vyasa wrote a world masterpiece known as the Mahabharata. It is a pre-eminent specimen of forceful literature, coupled with a supernormal power of poetic vision, philosophical depth and human psychology. The Mahabharata is primarily a magnificent narration of a great battle that took place between two families of cousin-brothers—the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Both these family groups, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, were descendants of a common ancestor. They were also known as the Kurus, generally speaking, to indicate that they were descendants of a common lineage o...
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The Tree of Life: 1.1- Swami Krishnananda

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============================================================================================================ Wednesday 12, Aug 2026, 05:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Tree of Life: 1.1 Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life - 1. Swami Krishnananda =============================================================================================== Sadhakas and seekers of truth from various parts of the country come to this holy abode in search of a mysterious something, the acquisition of which is considered as a rectifying factor or a remedy for the various illnesses of life. They have not come here for nothing. It is taken for granted that their search is for a light, and not for a substance or object. They seek an enlightenment, a torch to illumine the path which they have to walk in the various fields of their activities. There are doubts and difficulties, problems galore, so that it becomes difficult to take even one step ahead on account of a pitch darkness throug...
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Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 3. Swami Krishnananda.

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==================================================================================================== Monday 10, Aug  2026, 07:20. Books Scriptures Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 2. Discourse 2: The First Chapter – Visada Yoga, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit - 1. Swami Krishnananda ==================================================================================================== Discourse 2: The First Chapter – Visada Yoga, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit-1. The Bhagavadgita is a system of meditation. It is not a story that is being told to us of what might have happened centuries back. It is a concentrated spiritual guide which takes us from the very level in which we find ourselves at any given moment of time, and enables us to rise from that level to the next higher level, from the next higher level to a further higher level, and so on, in a graduated manner. There is no double promotion or sudden jumps in the teachings of the Bhagavadgita. In a way, we may sa...
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The Philosophy of the Karma Yoga of the Bhagavadgita: 3. (END) Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================================== Saturday 08, Aug 2026, 08:35. Article Scriptures  The Philosophy of the Karma Yoga of the Bhagavadgita: 3. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on July 15, 1979) Post - 3. ==================================================================================================== The undifferentiated spread-out character of our goal of life is our main problem, so neither can we renounce a thing nor can we cling to a thing. Mā karmaphalahetur bhūr mā te saṅgo 'stv akarmaṇi (BG 2.47): Neither can you cling to action, nor can you abandon action, so you are caught from both sides. You cannot say you like it, and you cannot say you don't like it. Both these attitudes are uncalled for and untrue to the nature of things. How is it possible for a person to neither like a thing nor not to like a thing? We have never heard of such a state of affairs. We always have some opinion of things which is either i...
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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 9. - Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================= Thursday 06, Aug 2026, 06:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India - 9. Chapter 3: The Itihasas and Puranas 1.The Rise of the Epics and Puranas Swami Krishnananda Post-9. ==================================================================================================== Chapter 3: The Itihasas and Puranas-1. 1.The Rise of the Epics and Puranas: The Brahman of the Upanishads, which stirred the awe and reverence of the sages, could be realised only by the cream of mankind, and those who are fit to pursue the path chalked out in the Upanishads are small in number. But religion has to extend beyond realisation and cater to the emotional needs of the lesser category of humanity. No historian of philosophy, to our knowledge, has been able to get over the prejudice that all religious thought subsequent to the Vedas and Upanishads, and ap...
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Sat Sangam with Swami Krishnananda: Post-9.

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  ==================================================================================================== Wednesday 05, Aug 2026, 5:00. Books Philosophy Metaphysical Philosophy Daily Sat Sangam with Swami Krishnananda. March (from The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad) Post-9.11. Physical Division Does Not Exist =================================================================================================== 11. Physical Division Does Not Exist: I shall give you a small example of how physical division does not exist. It is only imaginary. The bodies of people are constituted of the five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether. Your body, my body and everybody's body are constituted of only these things, nothing else—earth, water, fire, air, ether. If the body of one individual, 'A', is substantially the same as the body of another individual, 'B', because of its being formed of the same five elements, what is the reason for the distinction or the difference that we make b...
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