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Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity :31.3. Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Friday, January 13, 2023. 07:00. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter 31: The Message of the Sixth Chapter-3. ======================================================================== The great student Arjuna is perturbed. This is a grand description indeed of the magnificent possibilities of human nature, spiritual meditation rising up into an experience of cosmic identity for which arduous effort is called for by way of sense-control and restraint of the mental operations. The mind is hard to control. We cannot tie the violent and tempestuous wind and put it inside our bag, and similar is the mind in its rapacious behaviour ā€“ so cyclonic, uncontrollable and tempestuous. How would one control the mind? Arjuna addresses Bhagavan Sri Krishna, ā€œDo you not believe, O great Master, that a person who honestly endeavours to betake himself to this great yoga of meditation but fails in achieving his goal wil...