Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 20-4. Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================== =============================================================== Monday, May 02, 2022. 19: 00 Chapter 20: The Arising of the Concept of Unity-4. =============================================================== In the Mahabharata there is a story. Vidura gives this story to the weeping Dhritarashtra and Gandhari who beat their breasts, hit their heads on the floor, and sobbed bitterly at the death of all their children after the war. “What is this life? Misery and misery and misery,” says Vidura. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- However, it occurs in the Mahabharata in the context of Vidura's teaching at the close of the war. He says, “Our fate, our life, our condition is really pitiable, like the man who fell into a well in the wilderness. In darkness a man fell into a well in a thick jungle, and perchance he caught a hold o...