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A Study of the Bhagavadgita :11.9 - Swami Krishnananda.

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 ======================================================================= ========================================================================= Sunday, June 05, 2022. 19:40. Chapter 11: Beholding God as He Beholds Himself-9. ======================================================================= Can you also behold that? Why should Arjuna alone be blessed with that greatness? Why not you, or I, or anybody else? Arjuna is blessed, yes. You are also blessed ā€“ or anybody. But ā€“ there is a great 'but'. "Na veda-yajnadhyayanair na danair na cha kriyabhir na tapobhir ugraih evam-rupah shakya (Gita 11.48).  Any amount of human effort is inadequate for this purpose. 'Human' ā€“ after all, your effort is human; that is the only difficulty. You are a person, and that is divinity; it is a Super-person. You are a mortal; that is immortal. You are located in one place; it is everywhere. How would a localised, mortal individual with the frail faculties of sense organs expect to...