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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 4.8. Swami Krishnananda

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============================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 21/04/2020. Chapter 4: The Struggle for the Infinite - 8. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #We cannot properly appreciate the connection that exists between God and the world, between God and ourselves and between one person and another person. And the whole of metaphysical philosophy is supposed to deal with these supreme principlesā€”God, world and soulā€”an understanding of whose internal relationship is supposed to be philosophy proper, or ontology, as they call it these days.  ##But these principles elude our grasp because even in our endeavour to grasp the internal relationship among these ultimate principles we commit a basic mistake, an error which worms itself into the very situation of understanding. We remain as justifiable ego-centres, we remain ā€˜ourselvesā€™, we remain just what we are today....