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A Study of the Bhagavadgita -1.4 Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14/10/2019. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you psychoanalytically subject yourself to a study of what experience it is that you are passing through in your daily life, you will realise that your adjustments, which you call your work in this world, are concerned with human beings more predominantly than with anything else. You wake up in the morning and prepare yourself for work. Mostly, it may be work in a particular condition where other people are also involved, such as farming, working in a factory or being in an office ā€“ all which involve necessary adaptation to human circumstances. All work in this world is related to the existence of pe...

The Bhagavad gita's Message of Knowledge and Action -6. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13/10/2019 (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) 6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bhagavadgita says that we must act in such a manner that there is no revolt from any side as a consequence of the action that we perform. What type of revolt can we expect? God Himself can revolt against what we are doing, Nature can revolt, our own conscience may revolt, and human society may revolt. These are the four types of opposition that we can have. We must be harmonised: samatva? yoga ucyate. What is the meaning of samatvam? What is harmonisation? We have to be harmonised with what is visible as well as invisible. The principle of right action is mentioned in the Eighteenth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita, whi...