Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 23-1. Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================= ======================================================================= Monday, July 18, 2022. 19:40. Chapter 23: Introduction to the Sixth Chapter - 1. ======================================================================= The Bhagavadgita, in its Sixth Chapter, is the yoga of meditation, dhyana yoga. The gospel, the teaching of the Bhagavadgita, gradually tunes itself up to high concentration as it moves onward and forward. In the initial step, at the very beginning of the First Chapter, we have the presentation of the picture of political turmoil, the worst of things that one can have in the world, a field of battle with high-strung nerves of people ready to pounce on one another. Tension is the name of that condition. This is the Mahabharata. The First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita gives the description of an intensified scene at the onset of this battle. Warriors are arrayed from both sides in a large fiel...