Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 17.6 - Swami Krishnananda.
=============================================================== =============================================================== Friday, March 10, 2022. 20:00. Chapter 17. The Play of the Cosmic Powers-6. =============================================================== In our faiths, in our beliefs, we are either tamasika, or rajasika or sattvika. We may have the faith of an animal or the faith of a highly prejudiced person, or the faith of one who is enlightened and has a direct grasp of truth by an intuition of the nature of things. This belief, this faith, decides practically everything we do in this world. Our political life, our social relationships, our personal conduct, our religious practices, even our idea of God and the aim of lifeāall these are determined by the kind of guna that operates in us, in any measure. If we are tamasika, lowest in the rung of evolution, we have the world view of an animal, which, too, has a philosophy of its own, according to which it works. We ...