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Commentary on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita- Discourse 4.4- Swami Krishnananda

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Sunday, July 05, 2020. 8:10.AM. Discourse 4: The Second Chapter Continues ā€“ How to Live in the World-4. Sri Krishnaā€™s argument goes on, from stage to stage. Firstly, the fear of death is to be ruled out because of the possibility of attaining immortality, and the whole process of evolution through birth and death being a journey to the finality which is the end of all transmigration. As the river will meet the ocean, the soul will reach the sea of all-pervasiveness. Not only that, the performance of duty, which is the main subject of the Bhagavadgita, involves the consideration of the manner in which a human individual lives in this world as a combination of spirit and matter, soul and body, consciousness and objectiveness. There is a duty imposed upon every person on account of the very involvement of consciousness in space and time. We have to do our duty, our svadharma.  Svadharma api cavekshya na vikampitum arhasi ( B.G- CH-2 SLO .31) :  ā€œConsidering the essentiality of pe...