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A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India: 10. - Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================= Thursday 20, Aug 2026, 20:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India -9. Chapter 3: The Itihasas and Puranas - 1. 2.History and Symbology as Modes of Teaching: Swami Krishnananda Post-10; ==================================================================================================== Chapter 3: The Itihasas and Puranas-2. 2.History and Symbology as Modes of Teaching: The method of the Epics is different from that of the Veda-Samhitas and the Upanishads. The latter lead the mind direct to the ultimate truth of things, with a forceful pressure of the revelation of a universal unity exerted on the understanding. The penetrating insight of the authors of the Epics and Puranas quickly discovered the impossibility of the application of this method on the minds of the masses and followed a way which can be easily accepted by everyone. T...
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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharatham and the Bhagavadgita: 1.2 Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================= Wednesday 19, Aug 2026, 18:00. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharatham and the Bhagavadgita: 1.2 Swami Krishnananda Chapter 1: The Plight of the Pandavas -2. =================================================================================================== The Puranas, particularly, embark upon an expatiation of the war that takes place between the devas and asuras, in a cosmic sense. Often people say the devas and the asuras described in the Puranas are allegories of psychological functions in individuals. These are all artificial, modernised interpretations, under the impression that that reality is confined to one section of life alone. We cannot say that there is no cosmic counterpart of the individual psyche. The Puranas are right; the psychologists also are right. It is true that there is a Ganga flowing in us in the form of the sushumna nadi, and...
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Sat Sangam with Swami Krishnananda: Post-10.

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  Swami Krishnananda: ==================================================================================================== Tuesday 18, Aug 2026, 5:00. Books Philosophy Metaphysical Philosophy Daily Sat Sangam with Swami Krishnananda. March (from The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad) 21. Though It Is the ‘Other’, It Is Also the Self Post-10. =================================================================================================== 21. Though It Is the ‘Other’, It Is Also the Self: It willed, or He willed: “May I have a second Self.” This is the origin of creation. The world, this creation, this universe is the second Self, as it were, of the Supreme Being. This 'other' Self, which is this vast creation, is animated by the Supreme Being Himself. It is 'other' in the sense that it had not all the characteristics of the Absolute. Yet, it is the Self. Though it is the 'other', it is also the Self. It is called the 'Other Self', inasmuch as the Selfhood of th...
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The Philosophy of the Karma Yoga of the Bhagavadgita: 3.(End) Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================================== Thursday 14, Aug 2026, 05:00. 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 eith...
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Daily Invocations: -7. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  =================================================================================================== Sunday 16, Aug 2026, 17:30.        Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism Daily Invocations:  6.The Significance of the Narayana Suktam Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================================== The Narayana Suktam: 1. ॐ सहस्रशीर्षं देवं विश्वाक्षं विश्वशम्भुवम् । विश्वै नारायणं देवं अक्षरं परमं पदम् ॥ ōm sahasraśīrṣaṁ devaṁ viśvākśaṁ viśvaśambhuvaṁ, viśvaṁ nārāyaṇaṁ devamakśaraṁ paramaṁ padam. This universe is the Eternal Being (Narayana), the imperishable, the supreme, the goal, multi-headed and multi-eyed (i.e., omnipresent and omniscient), the resplendent, the source of delight for the whole universe. Note: —With this verse commences a famous hymn of the Vedic group, stating the characters of the Absolute in its manifestation as this creation. 2. विश्वतः परमं नित्यं विश्वं नारायणं हरिम् । विश्वमेवे...
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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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