Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 42 - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================= ====================================================================== Monday, June 27, 2022. 05:00.AM, Discourse 46: The Seventeenth Chapter Begins – The Threefold Character of Faith : 2. POST-42. ===================================================================== Śraddhāmayoyaṁ puruṣaḥ: So faith, of course, is embodied in a person. Whatever we do is according to our faith, not necessarily according to our considered reason. Yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ: As our faith is, so is our person. Whatever we do, whatever we speak, whatever we think, the manner in which we behave, and the ideology that we hold aloft before us are some indications as to what kind of person we are, and are indications as to what kind of faith a person is entertaining—yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ. Briefly, in only two verses, the answer to Arjuna comes like a bombshell. This set of two verses is very concentrated, on which one could ...