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The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity- 3.1. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ======================================================================== 16/01/2020. Chapter 3: The Aranya Parvam of the Mahabharatam-1. ======================================================================= 1. Great and interesting meanings have been read into the Mahabharata epic, and the more we go into its secrets and implications, the more may we be able to relate it to human life in general. #Do we not hear it said again and again that the more we study the Bhagavadgita, the deeper is the meaning that one discovers in it? #If that is the case with the Bhagavadgita, that is also the case with the Mahabharata because in a comparison, we may say, #if the Bhagavadgita is the soul, #the Mahabharata is the body. So the spirit of the Bhagavadgita is embodied in the epic of the Mahabharata. If the Bhagavadgita is a gospel for all life, the Mahabharata epic is a dramatic description of the performa...