Sri Krishna as Revealed in All Levels of Reality - 5. Swami Krishnananda

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#Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda had a wonderful ability to take everyone under his wings, from the child to the youth to the householder. Here is a letter he writes on the significance of a happy home :

##"A home is not merely a roof over us - it must be a harbour from all mental worries - a #divine sanctuary - a haven of Peace - an arbour of love and affection – a garden where your #children can grow in beauty and strength."

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13/02/2020.
(Spoken on May 1, 1983)
Post-5.
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#Duty is a most eluding term which occurs again and again in the Bhagavadgita. 

##The true nature of the duty that is expected of us is something which we cannot easily know inasmuch as we cannot easily know our own selves as we are and, therefore, at the same time, we cannot also know what our total involvement is in the setup of the world outside. 

###What we call duty, which the Bhagavadgita teaching seems to be expecting of every individual, is the obligation of the individual to the environment of the cosmos, and this obligation cannot be understood in its true essentiality unless the relationship between the individual and the cosmos is also known. 

####Ethics, morality, and the proper behaviour expected of us may be said to be a natural corollary or outcome that follows from the centrality of Reality, whose characteristic is to be known first and foremost.
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#"So if life is an adventure in the direction of achieving success and life need not and should not mean a headlong movement towards defeat and folly, if life is a progressive movement towards greater and greater enduring success, and if success according to this verse of the Bhagavadgita is certain where Krishna and Arjuna are together, we must know what is expected from us in the context of the position in which we are placed in this world."
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#Often interpreters of the Bhagavadgita tell us that Krishna represents the cosmic reality, and Arjuna represents the individual. 

##God and man, grace and effort, knowledge and action, the eternal and the temporal, the Absolute and the relative are supposed to be represented by these terms Krishna and Arjuna, so every blessed thing is included in the meaning and the significance of these interesting names Krishna and Arjuna. 

###The eternal and the temporal have to shake hands with each other. Knowledge and action have to go together. The internal and the external have to be in alignment. The individual and the universal have to be in tune. 

####All this having being said, it has to be added that this attunement or coming together or blend or harmony should be in every level, in every stage through the process of the ascent of the individual to the universal, the particular to the Absolute.
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To be continued ...


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