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The Bhagavadgita's Message of Knowledge and Action : 8 - Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19/11.2019 (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chapter-18. Slokam-14. "Adhishtanam tatha kartha karanam cha prithag-vidham vividhash cha prithak cheshta daivam chaivatra panchamam." #Karanam ca prithag-vidham : The various instruments of action are also to be correct. Suppose a scientist in a laboratory is using a very powerful microscope in order to study atoms, electrons, and so on, and goes on peeping into the microscope very carefully throughout the day. But if the microscope is not properly made, and he himself has cataracts in his eyes, what will he see through the microscope? He will come to a very wrong scientific conc...