Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

======================================================================================== Thursday 12, December 2024, 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:10-1. Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== Chapter 10: The Need for Sankhya-1. The interdependence of human society was one of the points which was taken up as a position to substantiate human responsibility in respect of all humanity. The fact of interdependence of human society would enable us to conceive humanity as a single person. All mankind is one man, as it were. All persons constitute one person. This conclusion would follow from the appreciation of the fact that the units forming human society are interdependent, interdeterminant and interconditioning – we may say, even interexistent. Thus comes the necessity on the part of eac...

======================================================================================== Monday 02, December 2024, 06:10. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity:9-8. Chapter 9: The Classification of Society-8. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita:  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti ======================================================================================== The great Lord does not go so deep in the beginning, but it becomes necessary to go deep later on when the patient is not listening. So, in the beginning he suffices with, “Okay. As a social individual at least, you have to contribute your might.” I shall revert for two or three minutes to the point of this classification of society which the ancient masters classified as Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Sudra. We have to be very careful in understanding what these terms mean. They mean the obligations of a person, and not the person himself or herself. We sometimes mistake the obligatio...