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The Tree of Life: 2.2. Swami Krishnananda.

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  ======================================================================================================= Wednesday 26, March 2025, 11:50. Shrimad Bhagavad Gita The Tree of Life: 2.2. Discourse 2: The Search For Wholeness - 2. Swami Krishnananda.  ======================================================================================================= Some such thing can be taken as the analogy of human experience. We are on Earth and in heaven at the same time. This is the reason for the mystery of life. If we had been totally on Earth and stuck to the ground with our feet, with nothing of the heavenly in us, that would have been something to our satisfaction, at least empirically. But we can never be satisfied with anything in this world. Though we are conditioned entirely by whatever the world gives us, we are not wholly in this world. That particular aspect of our being, or that part of our personality which lifts us above the Earth, keeps us restless and unhappy. That which...