The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 12.2. Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, July 01, 2021. 7:22. PM. Chapter-12. Control of the Senses :2. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) Post-2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, there is a goodness in man sometimes operating in a marked way in one’s life, as I mentioned, yet this goodness is to be understood in its proper sense. The goodness we speak of here is the preponderance of the sattva guna in the person. To be good is to be in consonance with the law of nature. To be good does not mean merely being condescendingly charitable to another person. It is not showing mercy to poor people. It is not putting on an air of superiority in the midst of others who are inferior. It is not a sense of doing good to others because I have greater capacity and others have less. This would be to bring a sociological interpretation into a spi...