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A Study of the Bhagavadgita -1.5 Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31/10/2019. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Bhagavadgita - 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Here is the whole point. How can two persons be independent and yet be cooperative to the hilt? #How can you expect total sacrifice on the part of a person who is also independent like you? If you consider that the other person is not independent, then you also may not regard yourself as wholly independent. If an abolition of independence assumed by persons can be considered as necessary for a cooperative life of sacrifice, conflict may not arise. Even nations may avoid war if it is not absolutely called for. But a peculiar trait called egoism in human nature which is in families, in communities, in...