Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

04/04/2020. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 5. 1. #The love for immortal existence can be interpreted as a love for existing as ‘this individual’ for an endless period of time.  ##People are frightened by the very idea of the abolition of personality in God-realisation. And there are philosophies which repudiate such a possibility, because if we are abolished, what, then, remains?  ###If the aspirer ceases to be, what is he aspiring for?  ####This frightening situation may shake us from the bottom, and we revert, once again, to the old cocoon of bodily existence and social relationship. And the Mahabharata war would not be! 2. #Arjuna says, “I bid good-bye. Here is my grandsire, Bhishma; here is Drona, my Guru; here are my cousin brothers, all come from the same ancestor; the same blood is flowing through the veins of everyone.  *What can be a greater sin than to aim an arrow at the venerable Bhishma, on whose lap I sat and listened to stories when I was a...