The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 8.1. Swami Krishnananda.
-------------------------------------------------- Saturday, November 07, 2020. 08:25. AM. Chapter 8: The Realism and Idealism of the Bhagavadgita-1. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) --------------------------------------------------- In our understanding of the message of the Bhagavadgita, we may have to move stage by stage, keeping in view the development of thought in a systematic manner which characterises the different chapters of the text. We may say, using a modern philosophical expression, that the Bhagavadgita is both idealistic and realistic. It is uncompromisingly idealistic in the sense that it holds an ultimately valid transcendent principle to be the final deciding factor in all matters, in everything in this creation. There is a final valid deciding factor which is cosmically relevant and harmonious, appropriately juxtaposed with every event in the universe, and existing as the very root of any meaning that we can read in ...