The Essence of the Gospel of the Bhagavad Gita : 2. Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07/09/2019 (Spoken at a conference in Delhi on December 27, 1973.) 2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The human predicament is portrayed in all its colours and patterns at the very outset, in the very commencement of this gospel, the Bhagavad Gita, which is meant to be an instruction to man in all his walks of life. The problem of man is the conflict of life. Every moment of time we are in a state of conflict. We are in a dilemma. We are sometimes between the devil and the deep sea, as they say. We are caught by two horns of a dilemma, between which we cannot easily make a choice. Sometimes we do not know whether it is better to live or to die. People who have suffered life know what it actuall...