The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 4.7. Swami Krishnananda

=============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, May 14, 2020. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 4: Stories from the Aranya Parva - 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I will tell you another story. Today I will tell you only stories, nothing else. I am tired, so I will tell stories only. There was a great sage. Due to some error in meditation or through some mistake, he was born as a deer. It is not Jada Bharata, the deer about whom you read in the Bhagavata Mahapurana. Due to the power of meditation, it remembered its past birth. It knew what it was but because it was a deer it was vulnerable, accessible to any hunter. One day it was caught by the hunter. What the hunter did was, he tied a net on one side, set a huge configuration of fire on the second side, let off his hounds on the third sid...