The Bhagavadgita's Message of Knowledge and Action: 1. Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================================= Sunday 15, September 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita's Message of Knowledge and Action: 1. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1974) ======================================================================================= In the history of the culture of the world, the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita may be regarded as the central spiritual message to mankind. These two gospels of the spiritual ideal offset each other, as it were; they give us the art of life in consonance with the eternal on the one hand, and in consonance with the temporal on the other. The problem of the human being is principally one of reconciliation between the eternal and the temporal or, to put it in modern terms, bringing about a harmony between the religious ideal and the secular call of duty. This has been an age-old problem, a question that has never been adequately answered. And the Upanis...