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A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 1-3 : Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Wednesday, 18 Oct 2023 06:30. Chapter -1. Introduction to the Bhagavadgita-3. ========================================================================= The great work of Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa, who wrote the Mahabharata, is not merely a story that you can witness as a television drama, as you have it these days. It is not a novel which you can read at your leisure for your own personal pleasure. It is a study of human nature. It is a history, no doubt, but not merely a political history like the history of England, Europe or India, as you read in your colleges. This is a history of human character, the development of the human psyche, and the ups and downs of human development throughout the process of the march of time ā€“ not merely confined to a particular point in time. So you may say this great epic of the Mahabharata is a history of the time process, not the history of India, not the history of the Bharatas...