The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 7.2. Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 24, 2020. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 7: Can War Ever be Justified ? - 2. (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There is a little sentence towards the end of the Mahabharata where the very same person who was told this Gita, Arjuna, wanted to hear it a second time. Sri Krishna was sitting near him in a garden, as it were. “I would like to hear once again, great Lord, what you told me in the beginning of the war.” “Oh, no,” Krishna said. “It cannot be repeated.” The reply of Sri Krishna was in half a sentence, half a verse, in the Mahabharata. Paraṁ hi brahma kathitaṁ yogayuktena tan mayā (M.B. 14.16.12): “When I spoke that, I was in the state of the Absolute. It cannot be summoned a second time like that.” It is difficult to understand the meaning of this little half sentence. “I was in a state of unificati...