Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 49-3. - Swami Krishnananda.
====================================================================== ======================================================================= Tuesday, September 13, 2022. 06:30. Discourse 49: The Eighteenth Chapter Continues – Types of Understanding, Determination and Happiness-3. ======================================================================== This is briefly some recapitulation of the characteristics of three types of actions done by three kinds of people—sattvic, rajasic and tamasic. This subject has been dealt with in more detail in the Third and the Fourth Chapters, and here it is only a summing up, a simhavalokanam. Simhavalokanam means going on, going on, and then looking back—like a lion. A lion goes on walking, and then after some time it turns to see what is behind. That kind of looking back is called summing up, recapitulation, simhavalokanam. Now the buddhi, or the intellect, is discussed. Three qualities of the intellect are mentioned here—three types of inte...