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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 3.5. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/01/2020. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. We will be a little bit restless in the beginning stages. We will be unhappy for reasons we cannot easily know. We will like to get up and run away into the thick of human relations once again, because man is a social animal basically. And to ignore this aspect of the human individual would be not to properly comprehend the psychology of the human being. The attractions and repulsions, the likes and dislikes in relation to personalities, are inborn in us. We are born into this circumstance. We have something to say about the people around us. For or against, we have some opinion about people, and we always ...

The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 3.4. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================= ======================================================================= 02/01/2020. Chapter 3: The Spirit of True Renunciation -4. ======================================================================= 1. The context of the First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is the atmosphere of tense feelings in the field of a tremendous Armageddon, each one imagining that one would win victory over the other, each one intent upon overcoming the other, so that each one musters in all the powers of oneself available for unleashing the same in this battle that is to ensue. The individual faces this world before it as a confrontation, a field of action and opposition. The child, in its moods of unintelligent enthusiasm, imagines that it can do anything with this world—possess it, enjoy it, overcome it, utilise it, harness it for its purposes. As we grow older, we become aware of the fact that the world is too much f...