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Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================================= Sunday 29, December 2024, 11:10. Commentary on the Bhagavadgita: 2. Discourse 1: The Colophon of the Bhagavadgita-2. Swami Krishnananda =================================================================================== Brahma-vidya is the art and the science of educating oneself in the manner of correctly perceiving the world as such, including one's own self, in the totality of relations, so that no partial vision of things can be regarded as a passport to the concept of the Absolute. Mostlyā€”or always, I may sayā€”our perceptions are partial. They are limited to certain conditions. It is a condition related to a marketplace, a railway station, a bus stand, an office, a factory or a house. These are the things that limit our thoughts, but we do not rise above the apparent outwardness of these conditions and go inside to the relationship of these things to other things. This is a v...