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Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 51-5. - Swami Krishnananda.

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 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Thursday, November 10, 2022. 07:30. Discourse-51. The Eighteenth Chapter Concludes: The Bhagavadgita Concludes-5. ======================================================================== The Bhagavadgita was told by Sanjaya to Dhritarashtra, right from the beginning, because Dhritarashtra was the person who raised the question, ā€œWhat is happening in the battlefield of Dharmakshetra Kurukshetra? What are my children doing? What are the Pandava children doing?ā€ In answer to that, Sanjaya started recounting the entire history of the war, and he ended by saying, ā€œBhishma fell.ā€ ā€œO Bhishma fell? Tell me everything. I am very much disturbed by hearing it.ā€ Dhritarashtra wanted to know all that was happening. Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa came and said, ā€œIf you want to see all things by yourself, I shall bless you with a vision with which, from this...