Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 40 - Swami Krishnananda.
=============================================================== =============================================================== Tuesday, June 14, 2022. 20:00. Discourse 45: The Sixteenth Chapter Concludes – "What is Proper and What is Improper in Our Life : POST-40. ============================================================== Very few people have even heard of these names: dharma, artha, kama, moksha. These are the four feet, as it were, of the structure of human life. Ordinarily, from one's own reasoning, these ideas will not normally arise. The normal way of looking at things, the vision of things based on our independent thinking, is materially construed, sensorially oriented, and desire-filled. Thus, the necessity to consult and work according to the injunctions of the Shastras is considered here as imperative. The necessity for material amenities is something well known to people. We require certain physical comforts, but we cannot have so much of it as would deprive ...