The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 17.4. - Swami Krishnananda.
=============================================================== Monday 12, Feb 2024 07:30. Chapter 17: The Play of the Cosmic Powers - 4. ================================================================ The difficulty in the understanding of the nature of the stage in which one is placed at any given moment of time is great indeed, and towards the end of the chapter, the great Teacher tells us that our guide on this path is the scripture, the revelation, the intuition of the sages. It is not easy for us to understand what is the means of right knowledge. Philosophers have been struggling since ages to discover the means of knowledge or a proper understanding of things as they are in themselves. Is it sensory perception? Is it logical deduction, inference? Is it comparison of one thing with another thing? Is it apprehension? Or is it scriptural testimony? What is the way of knowledge? Religions have held that the authority is scripture and no other thing can be ultimate...