The Three Types of Discipline of the Bhagavadgita - 5. Swami Krishnananda

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15/02/2020.
(Spoken on September 18th, 1974.)
Post-5.
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#Therefore, we are not supposed to bring about the assemblage of mechanical parts in the discipline of our personality, because that would be an artificial life. 

##We are supposed to conduct ourselves in such a way that our life is an art, a beauty, an attraction, so that our face beams with a joy that draws people towards us as if we are a magnet. 

###Beauty is a source of attraction, and we become a source of beauty on account of the discipline spiritually conducted according to this novel doctrine of the Bhagavadgita.
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#Now, this is not sufficient, and the next six chapters describe something much more. 

##Whatever be the discipline that you have in your own self – you are a well-integrated, psychologically balanced personality – very good, but what is your relationship with the world outside? 

###Bharatham is very big, and it is not exhausted merely by your personality, and it is not the whole world. The world is much bigger than even our country, and it has a connection with the whole international system.

####Inasmuch as you are an organic part of this country as a citizen, well, you would seem to have a connection with other parts of the world also. 

#####And this world, which is this Earth, has a connection with the solar system. Physicists and astronomers know what vital connection this Earth has with the Sun and the entire solar system and the Milky Way, and so on. Astronomers tell us that the whole physical universe is an organic completeness, as our own personality also is.
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#The second six chapters of the Bhagavadgita tell you how to take into consideration in real discipline of life the factors that are transcendent to your individual personality also. 

##If you are a very well conducted, moral, intellectual, cultural person individually and yet know nothing about the outer world, you will be a failure in life. 

###People will say that this man knows nothing of the world though he is a very good man in his own individual personality. 

####"As far as he is concerned, he is an ideal, golden man, but he has no idea about the world outside, and when he is in public, he is a failure."
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To be continued ....


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