Posts

Showing posts from April 14, 2020

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 4.7. Swami Krishnananda

Image
================================ --------------------------------------------------- 15/04/2020. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 7. ---------------------------------------------------- 1. Well, this is a story about every one of us.  It is not merely a tale to hear, it has some connection with all of us. Such is the poor understanding we have of God and such the nature of the moksha that we are thinking of in our minds, in a peculiar manner of our own.  Donā€™t you think that we would like to exist somehow in this very way even in the garden of Eden, in the presence of the Almighty?  And would you like to be swallowed up by the lion of God?  No, that is a terrible thing!  No one can gainsay that there is a basic love for bodily existence, and our idea of immortality is of a long duration of existence in this very state of affairs in which we are living today. Only, we would not like to have the pinpricks of daily lif...