The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 6.1. Swami Krishnananda

---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 06, 2020. 9:13.AM. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 6: Beauty and Duty in the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------- It is believed that there was a super-mundane manifestation of power in a particular context of an ancient historical period which is said to defy any relevance to mere temporal events and any attempt to interpret all earthly history in terms of an unimaginably super-mundane system of the evaluation of values. It is as if there was a sudden change of the entire administrative system, and a new policy began to give significance to every project, every action and every event. History has to be read in the light of a super-history, a trend of thinking which is not unknown to some philosophers of history these days. There is a non-temporal motivation, evidently, in all temporal processes; otherwise, it wou...