The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 9.1. Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 20, 2021. 06:56. PM. Chapter 9 : The Majesty of God-Consciousness - 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From self-discipline, the Bhagavadgita now takes us to the level of God-Consciousness as its discourse proceeds, and especially in the ninth, tenth and eleventh chapters we reach the climax of the description of this state. Here we seem to find God taking possession of everything. Human individuality and human responsibility do not anymore stand as an outside principle when God begins to rule His kingdom. The kingdom of the jiva, the individual, is no more an isolated factor requiring separate attention on the part of the individual. As we noted in earlier stages in the preceding chapters, the Gita concentrated itself upon the training which the individual has to undergo, until there is a complete preparation of oneself for the final ...