The Bhagavad gita's Message of Knowledge and Action -5. Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03/09/2019 (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) 5. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.1 What is karma yogam? It is an intelligent action, not a foolish action; it is an action that is engendered by a correct understanding of all the factors involved in our relationship with the entire atmosphere in which we are placed. This is a very difficult thing. You may be thinking, “What is it that you are saying? How am I to understand the implications of all the aspects of my relationship with the total atmosphere in which I am placed? What is this atmosphere?” 5.2 The Bhagavadgita tells us sankhya is to precede yoga or, in other words, knowledge is to precede action. In the terminology of the Bha...