The Bhagavadgita – A Synthesis of Thought and Action : 1. Swami Krishnananda
============================================================= ================================================================ Friday, February 11, 2022. 20:00. (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) Post-1. ============================================================== The culture of mankind may be said to have reached its zenith in the thoughts of the Upanishads, wherein we have an exposition of the quintessential essence of all values that humanity has been seeking through the passage of history. In this groundwork of human culture, we have the perennial inspiration of the soul of man, the cry of the deepest in the human individual, the raptures of what may be regarded as the most valuable part of human nature. Such is the meaning hidden behind the gospel of the Upanishads, which soar into the empyrean of the superhuman and the meta-empirical, rising to levels of such ecstatic heights almost inaccessible to the faculties available to the human individual, making us giddy with the hei...