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Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 1. Swami Krishnananda

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  ===================================================================================================== Monday 24, February 2025, 11:30. Article  Scriptures Spiritual Evolution According to the Bhagavadgita: 1.  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on February 24th, 1973) ============================================================================================ Human perception causes the kind of knowledge which takes things in their isolated and disconnected capacity, on account of which there is attraction and repulsion for them. The philosophy of this sort of perception is given in the Bhagavadgita:  Yat tu kį¹›tsnavad ekasmin karye saktam ahaitukam,  atattvārthavad alpaį¹ ca tat tāmasam udāhį¹›tam (BG 18.22). The Bhagavadgita regards this sort of knowledge as the lowest type of knowledge. That kind of knowledge which regards things in their individual capacity alone and takes the part for the whole, mistaking each entity for a complete substantiality and truth and thus g...