The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 9.5. Swami Krishnananda.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, February 19, 2021. 10:35. AM. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society- 5. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your relationship to things in the world, and your obligation to the world in terms of these relationships, will be dependent upon the extent of the manifestation of these gunas which constitute you, and you will be fit to act only in that manner, to that extent, as would be permitted by the preponderance of any one of these gunas or any two of the gunas, etc., because you cannot be other than what you are. You cannot try to do something differently than what is permitted by your nature. The word ‘nature’, prakriti, is sometimes used in the Bhagavadgita. Prakriti in a cosmical sense is ‘something...