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The Bhagavad gita's Message of Knowledge and Action - 7. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30/10/2019 (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Medical people know that 450 or so muscles are working when we stand up on our two legs. When we stand up, these 450 muscles are very active and very conscious that we are standing; otherwise, we will fall down. But who is aware of this fact? We think we are standing, but it is not so simple an affair. Not merely this, the brain is active, the heart is active, the lungs are active, the alimentary canal, the respiratory system ā€“ everything is active when we are merely standing up. In that simple act of standing, so many factors are involved that we are unaware of. And to understand the various factors of an action is e...