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Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 4. Swami Krishnananda.

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==================================================================================================== Tuesday 25, Aug  2026, 07:20. Books Scriptures Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 4. Discourse 2: The First Chapter – Visada Yoga, the Yoga of the Dejection of the Spirit - 1. Swami Krishnananda ==================================================================================================== Secondly, the spiritual seeker feels a doubt of another kind: “Am I deserting the world in my enthusiasm for God?” Advanced spiritual seekers will have such questions. “Have I not a duty towards people who are suffering? Am I to fly to God individually, allowing my own brethren, kinsmen and humanity to wallow in the mire of ignorance? Is it not my duty to be of some assistance to these sufferers?” A little bit of spiritual enlightenment is like a half-baked pot, which breaks when water is poured into it. It breaks the very determination of the spiritual seeker to reach God, and he would like to ...
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The Tree of Life: 1.2- Swami Krishnananda

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=============================================================================================== Sunday 23, Aug 2026, 07:55. Books Bhagavadgita & Hinduism The Tree of Life: 1.2-  1.The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life-2. Swami Krishnananda ============================================================================================ There is, therefore, a need to be serious in our pursuits and not to continue to behave like babies or children asking for toys, which are only a temporary relief for their tears. We give a toy to the child, and it stops crying. Why it cries, nobody knows. These toys are temporary contrivances to suppress the outward expression of the sorrow of the child, but the inner difficulty persists whatever be the outer adjustments we make in the various walks of life. The various outer adjustments are well known. The gaining of wealth, making money, increasing the bank balance, getting a good job, enhancement of status of oneself in human society, dainty dishes...
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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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