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======================================================================================== Tuesday 27, Aug. 2024, 06:40. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity :7.4 Chapter 7: Can War Ever be Justified? - 4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== But for reasons which are obvious to students of natural history and evolution, this is not possible. The cow will certainly wish that the tiger should not pounce on it. Why should they not be friends? But the tiger is unable to think in that manner, for reasons which are not entirely in its hands. A condition will not prevail in the world where there will be a uniform way of thinking in all living beings; therefore, it is the opinion of certain thinkers that war cannot be avoided as long as the world exists in the way it exists. Then, if that is the case, a most unjustifiable thing has to b...

======================================================================================== Tuesday 20, Aug. 2024, 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity :7.3 Chapter 7: Can War Ever be Justified? - 3. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== There was another side of it which disturbed Arjuna's mind, apart from the question of the success or the defeat. It was a war. Even today politicians, statesmen and social philosophers do not seem to have come to the conclusion as to the meaning of war itself. What is its justification? There are those who say it cannot be justified under any circumstance. It is a beastly behaviour of man and, therefore, it cannot be justified. Now I am digressing a little from the point I raised, in order to throw light on some interesting issue which occupies many people's minds these days. It is a to...

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======================================================================================== Monday 05, Aug. 2024, 06:50. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity :7.1 Chapter 7: Can War Ever be Justified? - 1. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Chapter 7: Can War Ever be Justified? -1. It is easy to enter into the spirit, the intention, the purpose and the meaning of what the Bhagavadgita is attempting to tell us because, as we know already, it is said to be a message come from Eternity. 'Eternity' is the word. It was a grand, cosmical circumstance. The word 'cosmical' is inadequate; something more than that it was, which was the source of this message, and it defied all limitations of time and space – defied in the sense that it overcame all these limitations. It is necessary for us to properly appreciate what it would ...

======================================================================================== Friday  02, Aug. 2024, 06:50. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity-6.4 Chapter 6: Beauty and Duty in the Bhagavadgita-4. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== It appears the Bhagavadgita, in that attempt to solve the mystery of the whole creation of duty and beauty, and many more things, lays down the central constitution of the cosmos, and inasmuch as this central constitution enactment, ordinance and law cannot avoid referring to the Supreme Creator, He is also brought into the picture. So it is a wonder of wonders that has been bequeathed to us, the coming of the Bhagavadgita; we may call it the coming of the rule of God. We do not know what it is that actually came – a miracle coming and transporting our hearts, burning and burnishi...