Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16/11/2019. (Spoken on July 15, 1979.) 7. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hence, our duty would be, properly speaking, more in the nature of an understanding of the events of life in an impersonal manner, and taking them in the spirit of their actualities and not in their idealities. What is, is as important as what ought to be. We should not neglect what is because of our over-emphasis on what ought to be. “Oh, it ought to have been like this.” Well, that may be. We would very much wish that the whole Earth is flooded with the joys of heaven, but it is not so. The Earth is what it is. So to invoke the bliss of heaven to the level of the Earth, we have to take our stand on the Earth first, as ...