The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch-12. Part-1.

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 Chapter 12: The Entry of the Soul into the Supreme Being

Part-1.

If we can recollect the procedure that we have been following in our studies, we will remember that the sociological situation in which the individual finds himself becomes the foremost subject for study and consideration.

The very first chapter of the Bhagavadgita places us in a sociological complex with which the human being is confronted in many ways.

The involvement of the individual in society is so complete that our thoughts are practically sociological, and the aims and objectives of the individual get merged in the complexity of sociological demands.

It happened to Arjuna.

His personality was lost completely in the tremendous panorama of social conflict that was presented before him, and whatever he spoke was from the point of view of society and the relationship of individuals in light of what we call human society.

There is no mention of the higher type of welfare of the individual as such.

We have dealt with this subject in some detail in our earlier studies, and I am mentioning it only as a kind of recapitulation of this theme for the purpose of following the thread of the argument of the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavadgita.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....



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