The Importance of the Bhagavadgita-7. Swami Krishnananda.& The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: Swami Krishnananda

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1.The Importance of the Bhagavadgita-7.
Swami Krishnananda
(Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982.)
2.The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 1.
Swami Krishnananda
(Spoken on October 14, 1984)

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So when you recite the Bhagavadgita, even when you touch the book, you are, if you are honest to yourself, in divine communion. The vibrations of Vyasa, Krishna, and Ganesha are all trying to enter you. When you read a textbook, you are in an internal communion with the author's ideas. You think like the author himself when you read a book. You are emotionally set in a proportion commensurate with the powerful ideas expressed by the poet or the author. Read Shakespeare, for instance. Your whole emotion will be turning upside down when you read through the plays because of the force of language, the power that is injected into the words by the immensely potent thoughts of the author.

People say the Mahabharata should not be read in the house because conflict or friction will manifest itself in the family. The idea is, the whole of the Mahabharata is a terrible vibration. Vyasa spoke not merely a language, but he was in tune with what he saw. Divine seers, divine masters are always in tune with what they think. They are not outside their thought contents. So as the Mahabharata is a description of a battle, a narration of events connected with intense friction among people that has been expressed by a powerful mind, the belief is that it will have some impact upon the whole area in which it is recited. The Mahabharata is not read in the house. People go to into the forest or to a temple to read it, and they read only the Shanti Parva and especially avoid the Yuddha Parvas. The point is that language is a force, and in the case of the Bhagavadgita or the Veda mantras, it is not ordinary language; it is divinity poured forth upon us.

This gives some idea about the importance of the Bhagavadgita, a great gospel for all humble seekers on the path of divinity. This is not the time for me to go into details of what the Bhagavadgita teaches. Since you are all acquainted to some extent with the contents of this great teaching, I do not propose to go into these details at present. Suffice it to say that we are mightily blessed to be graced with this immense kindness and compassion of God through Arjuna, the instrumentality of the representative of man. Arjuna was blessed, and we are all equally blessed. May our prayers be to this Great Being.

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The Duty of Karma Yoga: Cooperating with Our Higher Self: 1.Swami Krishnananda

(Spoken on October 14, 1984)

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The fourfold human nature is taken into consideration in the fourfold precept in regard to spiritual living, as we have it enunciated especially in the Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. There are four verses which make out that a fourfold approach may become necessary in accordance with the preponderance of one or another characteristic constituting human nature as a whole. Our approach to anything is conditioned by the capacity we have to receive the truths of the world, the realities of life, and the meaning of things in general.

To us, the world is that which is conceived by us. That which is incapable of comprehension and experience does not exist; therefore, the world's existence is the same as the consciousness we have of some degree of outward reality. It is doubtful if we are conscious of the whole world as it is in itself in all its contents and levels of inclusiveness. It does not appear to be so because we do not live in all levels of our personality at the same time. Each person knows for one's own self what is the particular level that operates in a particular condition. We never act entirely at every time, and hence, the entire world is never presented before our experience.

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