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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 4. - Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================================= Wednesday 29, April 2026, 05:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India - 4. Chapter 1: The Vedas:2 ============================================================================================== Chapter 2: The Upanishads:1 Swami Krishnananda Post-4. ======================================================================================================= 4.Karma and Reincarnation: The principles of rita and satya imply a strict adherence to law and rule in conformity with the aim and purpose of the processes of the universe. Any action which originates in a sense of personal individuality set in opposition to or incongruous with the universal order of rita and satya should obviously mean the work of a nemesis, as a natural reaction to such action, endeavouring to set right the balance of cosmic equilibrium which has been disturbed...
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The Central Intention of the Bhagavadgita - 4. Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================= Monday 27, April 2026, 05:45.  Article Scriptures The Central Intention of the Bhagavadgita: 4. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on November 26, 1972) ================================================================================================== The world is a scientific principle by itself. It is not meant for our enjoyment or for our hatred. It has an independence of its own, and we have to look upon the world as it is, and not as it appears. This knowledge is called sankhya, which is the subject of the Second Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. The sankhya to which Bhagavan Sri Krishna refers in the Second Chapter is the knowledge of the scientific nature of things, free from the emotional attitudes we have towards them. While emotion may lead us to love and hatred, the scientific attitude leads us to knowledge and understanding. This is sankhya tattva, and acting on the basis of this under...
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The Gita's Four Basic Conflicts of Life: END) - Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================= Saturday 25, April 2026, 07:20. Article Scriptures The Gita's Four Basic Conflicts of Life: 3. Swami Krishnananda. Spoken to a French-speaking group on December 28th, 1972). ================================================================================================== Now, the Bhagavadgita tells how this can be achieved. In the beginning, you have an aspiration for the Supreme Being or the Absolute. That is why you have come to India, for example. But you cannot get this so easily because it requires a long period of training and discipline. When you undergo this discipline for a long period of time, you will become frightened and feel that it is impossible. If I ask you to stay here for one year and practise this discipline, you will be afraid of it and want to go home as early as possible. This condition is described in the first chapter of the Bhagavadgita, when you feel like do...
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The Central Intention of the Bhagavadgita - 3. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ============================================================================================================= Thursday 23, April 2026, 06:30. Article Scriptures The Central Intention of the Bhagavadgita: 3. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on November 26, 1972) ================================================================================================== The good of spiritual life is not opposed to anything else as the bad, but we have an emotional attitude towards things, as Arjuna had in the beginning. Spiritual aspiration, or love of God, is not an emotion of the heart because emotions are always like waves, dashing on one shore and then dashing on the other shore. From this side we call it love, from the other side we call it hatred, but it is the same wave that dashes us either way, to either side. When we take to seclusion and monastic life or ashram life, these emotional distinctions—or erroneous notions, we should say—which made us draw a line between God-love and world-lo...
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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 3 - Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================ Monday 20, April 2026, 20:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India - 2. ================================================================================================= Chapter 1: The Vedas:2 Swami Krishnananda Post-2. ================================================================================================ 2.The Theme of the Vedas:  Continued There are other Suktas in the Rig-Veda, which are of great importance in different ways. The Asyavamasya Sukta has a very complicated structure of meaning and hints at certain vital issues of the creation and pattern of the universe. The Hiranyagarbha Sukta sings of the rise of the universe from the cosmic Hiranyagarbha or Prajapati (who is later identified with Brahma, the Creator). The Aghamarshana Sukta refers to the cycle of creation from the cosmic equilibrium in the beginning...
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Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 3. Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================================== Saturday 18, April 2026, 19:30. Article Scriptures  Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 3. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on February 24th, 1973). Post - 3. ==================================================================================================== The Bhagavadgita, as I may have mentioned, is a fund of all varieties of wisdom. We will find science, evolution, biology, and physics in the Gita. Every blessed thing is in the Bhagavadgita, if only we have the eyes to see it through the lines of the Gita. And when we reach this sattvic type of knowledge wherein the basic reality is recognised as the source of the variety that we see through the senses and understand through the intellect, we reach the goal of our life. Yadā bhūtapṛthagbhāvam ekastham anupaśyati: When we recognise the rootedness of all variety in the One; tata eva ca vistāraṃ: as the basis for the pro...
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