The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 3.4. Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17/11/2019. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The context of the First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is the atmosphere of tense feelings in the field of a tremendous Armageddon, each one imagining that one would win victory over the other, each one intent upon overcoming the other, so that each one musters in all the powers of oneself available for unleashing the same in this battle that is to ensue. The individual faces this world before it as a confrontation, a field of action and opposition. The child, in its moods of unintelligent enthusiasm, imagines that it can do anything with this world—possess it, enjoy it, overcome it, utilise it, harness it for its...