The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 3.2. Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24/10/2019. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The context in which Arjuna, the hero of this epic, the symbol of humanity in general, finds himself, is the total human situation. It is our situation, and everybody’s. The Mahabharata is not a book giving us merely a story of some historical event that occurred in ancient times. It is an exposition of the nature of the culture of the nation—one may say, the whole of humanity. It is a teaching which is intended to show the path to humanity in its entirety, leading it up to its destination by gradual stages; and the Bhagavadgita is the kernel of this intention of the Mahabharata epic. The purpose of the B...