The Bhagavadgita – A Synthesis of Thought and Action : 2. Swami Krishnananda
============================================================= ============================================================== Sunday, March 13, 2022. 20:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-2. ============================================================ The Bhagavadgita is the science of mankind's culture and activity, to put it simply and precisely. The Bhagavadgita is not a religious gospel of the Hindus. It is not a scripture in the sense of any sectarian doctrine. It does not teach religion in the popular sense of the term. It does not teach any type of ethics or morals in the common understanding of the meaning of the term ‘ethics' or ‘morality'. The Bhagavadgita purports to expound human nature in its various aspects. It is not necessarily the Hindu nature or the Christian nature or the Buddhist nature; it is human nature. The problem of Arjuna was a human problem. It was not a Hindu problem or an Eastern problem particularly. It was a problem of the psychology