Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

 ============================================================ ============================================================ Monday, February 07, 2022. 20:30. Chapter 17. The Play of the Cosmic Powers-1. ================================================================ As the teachings of the Bhagavadgita proceed on, they begin to unravel different types of mysteries. We have studied the Third Chapter, where reference was made to the gunas of prakriti, and we were told that there are three properties—sattva, rajas and tamas. And we shall be told further that the universe can be boiled down to a still fewer number of powers or forces. The dialectical processes of what we know as the thesis and the antithesis, the position and the opposition of a thing, are the only things we see anywhere. These two aspects of a single force appearing as conflicting parties are known as the ‘Daiva' and the  ‘Asura' tendencies in the cosmos, one moving towards the Centre and the other urging externa...