Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita- Part 2: Post-3: Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================================== Friday 09, Aug 2024, 06:40. Article Scriptures Introduction to the Bhagavadgita: Part 2. POST-3. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on March 17th, 1974) ========================================================================================== Now, the whole dramatic scene opens with the entry of King Duryodhana, who was the de facto king because Dhritarashtra was blind and he was a ruler only from the point of view of law. Duryodhana pompously enters the field of this anxious situation, and in a language which is outwardly forceful and confident, he secretly expressed the hidden diffidence in his heart and the fear of what was ahead because he was not sure as to the strength of his own army, though he openly spoke that his army was far stronger than the army of the Pandavas. In number it was stronger. Eleven akshauhinis constituted the army of the Kauravas, and only seven formed the army of the Pandavas, ...