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The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 8.1. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, March 21, 2021. 07:57. AM. Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death -1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bhagavadgita is a moksha-shastra, a scripture on the science of the liberation of the spirit. Thus it follows the course of the return process along the same lines as the evolutionary process of the descent of the soul from the Supreme Being. The first six chapters may be said to be engaged in an exposition of self-discipline from the individual point of view, the integration of the human personality and the preparation of the whole man for the greater task which is yet to come ā€“ namely, the at-one-ment of the individual with the set-up of the universe. Some of the interpreters and commentators on the Bhagavadgita hold that the first six chapters have a relevance to the significance of the term 'twam' in the famous Upanishadic p...

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 9.6. Last post. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,March 20,  2021. 08:02. PM. Chapter 9: The Divine Incarnation and God-oriented Activity -6. Last post ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thus, the Fourth Chapter gives us two important aspects of the message of Yoga. Firstly, Godā€™s Hands move in this world as Incarnations which cannot be counted in number. It is not that there is only Incarnation historically. Every event in the world is a divine miracle beyond the understanding of the human individual, and this divine miracle is the working of the Incarnations. The Incarnations have various degrees of intensity in their workings, and are in that particular shape or form which would be required under the circumstances of the case. Hence it is that we see a diversity among the messages of the prophets and the Incarnations accepted by the various religions of the world. They are not divers...