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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 4.1. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 28/02/2020. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Though the Bhagavadgita is regarded as a well-known textbook, it is really not intended for the ordinary man. ##Its teachings, its ethical principles, its ultimate aims, are all of such a nature that it is difficult to accommodate them into the normal thinking of the human being living in a world of desires, ambitions, prejudices and traditional routines of various types, all which are cut at the very root by the altogether different outlook of life which the Bhagavadgita presents. ###The more we begin to ponder over its message, the more would we find it difficult to make it a guideline for our day-t...