Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 32- Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================ ============================================================ Tuesday, May 03, 2022. 21:00. Discourse 44: The Sixteenth Chapter Begins – Divine and Undivine Qualities : POST-32. =============================================================== Akrodhaḥ is freedom from anger. We should not become enraged over small things. Tyāgaḥ is living a simple, frugal life; as it is generally said, simple living and high thinking. That may be said to be tyāgaḥ. We do not accumulate property, treasure, wealth etc., more than what is essential for our minimal comfortable existence, and we renounce all other things. Śāntiḥ is being always inwardly calm, composed, serene. Apaiśunam is the absence of crookedness and cunningness in speech or expression, in respect of other people. We should be before people exactly what we are in ourselves, and we should not have three personalities—one for ourselves, one for our family members, a...