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Commentary on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita- Discourse 3.5 - Swami Krishnananda

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================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/04/2020. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins ā€“ Sankhya Yogam -5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *The world is movement.  *It is a fluxation. #It is a continuity of bits of force tending in some direction, and never does a single bit of matter rest in itself as an undivided something. Prakriti continuously changes its characteristics. It is a continuity that is a flow consisting of three strandsā€”namely, sattva, rajas and tamas. ##Like a wheel that moves when the car moves, there is a cyclic movement of prakriti through the gunas of sattva, rajas and tamas, and it is not a solid object. There is no such thing as solid objects in this world; there is only fluxation.  ###A person may appear on a screen, while the person is not really there. Thousands of small ...

The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 4.4. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================= #Sutlej River in Punjab --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25/04/2020 The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *Now this is another miracle which we will not be able to understand, and because we cannot understand, we cannot appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. She had bolted the door from inside, and was weeping. Again there was another knock, two knocks, three knocks.  #When she opened the door, it was Sri Krishna standing there. Sri Krishna said, ā€œI am hungry. I want some food.ā€ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. *Draupadi said, ā€œI am crying with sorrow. Donā€™t come and taunt a...