Canons of a Perfect Life: 8. Swami Krishnananda.

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Tuesday 01, July 2025, 10:00.
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Bhagavadgita & Hinduism
Canons of a Perfect Life: 8 (Chapter & Slokam no in brackets)
Swami Krishnananda
Being comprehensive selections from the Bhagavadgita

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56.The Recognition of the One Equal God in All Is the Way to Avoid Self-destruction and to Attain Supreme Beatitude:

*He sees truly, who sees the Supreme Lord, existing equally in all beings, the unperishing within the perishing.

#Seeing equanimously the same Lord equally dwelling everywhere, one does not destroy the Self by the self; and then reaches the highest goal. (XIII.28-29)

57. All Variety Is Rooted in the One

#When a person beholds the whole variety of beings as resting in the One, and spreading forth from That alone, then and there does he attain to Brahman (the Absolute). (XIII.31)

58.The Characteristics of Purity Are Lustre and Radiance

#When through every aperture in this body the wisdom light shines, then it should be known that Sattva (purity) is predominant. (XIV. 11)



59. The Characteristics of Impurity Are Greed and Fatiguing Drudgery of Activity


#Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, longing – these arise when Rajas is predominant. (XIV.12)

60.The Characteristics of Impurity Are Greed and Fatiguing Drudgery of Activity


#Greed, activity, the undertaking of actions, restlessness, longing – these arise when Rajas is predominant. (XIV.12)

61.The Characteristics of Lethargy and Torpidity Are Ignorance, Confusion, Inaction and Blundering

#Darkness, inertness, heedlessness and delusion – these arise when Tamas is predominant, O Arjuna. (XIV.13)



62.Purity Leads to Higher Divine Worlds, Impurity to Rebirth as a Human Being, and Lassitude to Embodiment in Sub-human Species


#If the embodied one meets with death when Sattva is predominant, then he attains to the spotless worlds of the knowers of the highest.

#Meeting death in Rajas, he is born among those who are attached to action; and dying in Tamas, he is born in the wombs of the senseless and idiotic. (XIV.14-15)

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63.The Universe Is Like a Widespread Tree with Its Ramifications

 Below and Its Roots in God, Who Is Its Goal

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