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The Bhagavadgita – A Synthesis of Thought and Action-10 : Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================= ======================================================================= 26/12/2019. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) A Synthesis of Thought and Action-10. ====================================================================== It is in this basic foundation of the cosmos that we have an answer to the question of the relation between matter and spirit of the individual and the world and society. All antitheses get reconciled in the Vision Supreme. The Bhagavadgita takes us through action to knowledge, though it goes from knowledge to action, thus blending knowledge and action in a beautiful synthesis so that knowledge and action cease to be two different approaches. We have not here the conflict between knowledge and action, as both mean one and the same thing. When action understands itself, it is called knowledge; when knowledge starts moving, it is called action. They are one and the same. Such is th...