The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita : 2-8. Swami Krishnananda
========================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 17, 2020. Chapter 2: The Difficulties of the Spiritual Seeker - 8. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. This difficulty arises on account of a lack of sufficient understanding, and understanding is called samkhya in the language of the Bhagavadgita. "Arjuna, you have no samkhya-buddhi," says Sri Krishna. "You are unable to discriminate between the real and the unreal, the true and the false, which means to say you have no right understanding, and samkhya is right understanding." The word 'samkhya' is used in the Bhagavadgita in a different sense from the way you are likely to understand it in the schools of thought. Here the samkhya word does not necessarily mean the jargon of the traditional school which goes by the name of Samkhya, propounded by a sag...