The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 10.1. Swami Krishnananda.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, July 18, 2021. 8:40. PM. Chapter 10: The One Supreme Absolute Alone Is -1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The faculties of knowledge and action in the human individual correspond, practically, to the functions of reason, will, emotion, and the impulse to act. We rationally and intellectually consider the pros and cons of a particular step to be taken – this is the rationality behind our way of living. Apart from pure intellectual or rational assessment, there is also a faculty in us which goes by the name of will – volition – which decides and determines a course of action or a purpose to be fulfilled. There is also a very important contributory factor in all of our engagements in life, namely emotion or feeling, and there is also the vigour which impulses to act. Practically, the human being is exhausted by these operations: reason...