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The Language of the Bhagavadgita: 1. Swami Krishnananda.

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============================================================================================= S unday 15, December 2024, 12:10. Article Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Language of the Bhagavadgita: 1.  Swami Krishnananda. (Gita Jayanti Message spoken on December 26, 1982) ============================================================================================== The uttered word or the spoken language is essentially a vibration, and when words are spoken by the operation of the mechanism of speech in a properly conducted manner it sets up a power, a force, which materialises itself into the effect, the intention behind the word or the speech. There is an old saying of Bhavabhuti, the great poet, that in the case of ordinary people, speech follows existent things, and in the case of great Masters, things follow their speech. We cannot speak things which are contrary to observable facts. We follow the course of nature in the utterance of words. We are conditioned by an external atmospher...