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A Study of the Bhagavadgita :13.7. - Swami Krishnananda.

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 ======================================================================= ======================================================================== Saturday, August 20, 2022. 07:30.  Chapter 13: The Positivity and the Negativity of Experience-7. =========================================================== Sri Krishna says, "There are varieties of faith." Trividhā bhavati śraddhā (Gita 17.2):  Faith also is not of one kind. Conscience is associated with faith, and everyone does not have the same kind of conscience. In some people conscience pinches, as they say. But in some people the conscience may not pinch. It is dead. If the conscience is dead and they are only automatons looking like human beings but acting like machines, then where is the question of conscience? Does the tiger have a conscience when it rips the bowels of a cow? Poor little thing, it has not done any harm, and the tiger kills it. Where is the conscience of the tiger? Its conscience is in the rudimentary ...