Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita- Part 2: Post-5: Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================================== Friday 23, Aug 2024, 06:40. Article Scriptures Introduction to the Bhagavadgita: Part 2. POST-5. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on March 17th, 1974) ========================================================================================== The beginning of the Bhagavadgita is thus an atmosphere of tension, conflict, and a coming together of two apparently irreconcilable forces. Dhritarashtra appears in the very beginning of the Bhagavadgita. He was born blind, as I mentioned. Here, when we go into the significant profundity that seems to be hidden in the message of the Gita, we also see that here is a spiritual message for us behind the historical context. The field of the Mahabharata is not merely outside, it is also inside. The Mahabharata epic is a book of life as a whole; it is not merely a narrative of an event that took place. The narrative is only an occasion for Vyasa to interpret the philoso...