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Commentary on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita- Discourse 7.4. - Swami Krishnananda.

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,March  19, 2021. 11:01. AM. Chapter-7. The Third Chapter Concludes: The Knower of Reality.-4. Post-15. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-3. ( Karma-yogam ) Slokam-36&37. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gita- ch-3, slokam-36. Arjuna puts a question.  Arjuna uvācha, "Atha kena prayukto ā€™yaį¹ pāpaį¹ charati pÅ«ruį¹£haįø„ anichchhann api vārį¹£hį¹‡eya balād iva niyojitaįø„."  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Translation : arjunaįø„ uvāchaā€”Arjun said;  athaā€”then;  kenaā€”by what;  prayuktaįø„ā€”impelled;  ayamā€”one;  pāpamā€”sins;  charatiā€”commit;  pÅ«ruį¹£haįø„ā€”a person;  anichchhanā€”unwillingly;  apiā€”even;  vārį¹£hį¹‡eyaā€”he who belongs to the Vri...

The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 10.2. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, March 18, 2021. 06:25. PM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10 : The Need for Sankhya -2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honest, dispassionate thinking is necessary here, and everyone has to be humble enough to realise the extent of oneā€™s dependence on external factors. No one is the creator of the universe, and no one is so vastly occupied with power that one can be totally independent. Nothing can be independent in this world of interconnections, interrelations.  Therefore, we have a duty, and what our duty is, is to be decided by the position we are occupying in the structure of the human society, our knowledge, and our capacity: guna karma vibhagasah (BG 4.13).  Details of this guna karma ...