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Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14, Slokam - 11.

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======================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/03/2020. Srimad  Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM ) Slokam-11. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam : "Sarvadvareshu   dehesmin  prakasa  upajayate, jnanam  yada  tada  vidyat  vivrddham   sattvamityuta." Translation : The manifestations of the mode of goodness can be experienced when all the gates of the body are illuminated by knowledge. yada  =  when; asmin  dehe  =  in  this  body; sarva  dvareshu  =  in  all  indriyas  (  senses ); jnanam   prakasa  upajayate  =  the  divinity  of  knowl...

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 4.2. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/03/2020. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A love for bodily existence and an affirmation of the ego, a conformity to social relationships connected with the body and the ego, sum up our satisfactions in a nutshell. We are mortals, living in a transitional world which pretends to satisfy our desires, but never does so. But this pretension is taken by us as a reality, and we ground ourselves in the justification of this pretentious promise of the sense-world, and somehow or the other persuade ourselves to be satisfied with whatever is in the world as presented to the senses and whatever the emotions regard as what is ultimately required....