A Study of the Bhagavadgita :14.1. - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== ======================================================================== Friday, September 02, 2022. 06:30. Chapter 14: Our Involvement in the Whole Creation -1. ======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Eighteenth Chapter commences with a question in regard to the nature of action, which is a theme that predominates throughout the Gita. "Action binds, and action is unpleasant," is the usual notion that people have regarding any kind of action. Nothing that you call an activity is pleasant and happy in its nature. It binds a person in various ways by anxieties of different types. But the Gita also says that action is a must. What is it that binds, and what is it that is a must? Questions similar to this were raised by Arjuna at the beginning of thi...