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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 6.1. Swami Krishnananda

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Tuesday, July 07, 2020. 8:53. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Duty - 1. 1. The reply of Sri Krishna to Arjunaā€™s questions comes from various levelsā€”the social, the personal, the cosmical and, ultimately, the spiritual. A problem has to be tackled in every way, because our difficulties arise from the depths of our being. No difficulty belongs merely to one side of our life, just as a disease has a root in the layers which are beneath the mere physical. Interpreters of scriptures and students of philosophy are asked to take into consideration all the possible aspects of a particular situation, even if it be a commonplace event. A little event is a cosmic event, though it may be a very insignificant, meaningless something for common perception. But a thing is not so redundant as it may appear on the surface. The universe is awake at the birth of every event. That is why we are told that there is no such thing as a secret in this world; everything is public, open and common. An event has to ...