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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 14.5 - Swami Krishnananda.

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 ======================================================================= ==================================================================== Monday, December 13, 2021. 8:00. PM. The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita-14-5. Chapter-14. The Glory and Majesty of the Almighty-5. ====================================================================== What one feels at that time is, again, poetically portrayed in the great hymnology which fills the whole of the Eleventh Chapter. It does not actually mean that one will be speaking something there. The poet of the Gita has to express himself in language, and so he uses a poetic style to demonstrate the feeling of the soul at the time of this divine possession and experience, at which time it becomes giddy with God-Consciousness. The soul does not utter words in human language. It shudders from the roots and shakes at the very bottom, and it does not think and feel but melts away gradually into the awe. This process of the evaporating of the so...