The Tree of Life: 1.4. Swami Krishnananda,
========================================================================================= Friday 03, January 2025, 11:55. Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 1.4 Discourse 1: The Twofold Character of Cosmic Life-4. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================= We know very well that our Earthly life can come to an end at any moment, but we never take it very seriously. We can take it seriously if it goes so deeply into our hearts that we will not be able to breathe even for a few seconds. Something in us overpowers this instinct of the awareness of the impending discontinuity of life, and we are instinctively compelled to brush aside this immanent catastrophe of what we call death that may descend upon us at any moment of time. While there is on one side the instinct of the consciousness of death and destruction, there is also another kind of instinct which keeps us completely forgetful of this phenomenon of life....