The Bhagavadgita in a Nutshell: 2. Swami Krishnananda
================================================================================= Sunday 24, November 2024, 06:45. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita in a Nutshell: 2. Swami Krishnananda. (Spoken on November 3rd, 1973.) ================================================================================== “If understanding is superior, well, I will understand and keep quiet. Why do you want me to work? And if work is all that is essential, why comes understanding?” This quandary, this doubt which was in the mind of Arjuna, is in the mind of every one of us. This is the great war between knowledge and action, jnana and karma, as it is usually put. Everywhere this war goes on, and even now it is not ending. Some say jnana is supreme, some say karma is supreme, some say knowledge is needed for moksha, others say work is also necessary, and some say neither of them is sufficient and both have to be combined. There are so many confusions. The answer Bhagavan Sri Krishna gives to this question ...