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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita:10.5 - Swami Krishnananda.

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====================================================================================================== Tuesday 14, January 2025. 05:30.  The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita:10.5: Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable-5. Swami Krishnananda . ========================================================================================= Any action, being God's action, all fruits of action go to Him. He is the supreme bhokta—enjoyer of the fruits of all actions. Any sacrament is an offering to Him. Any charitable act that we perform with the goodness of our heart is a consecration done to God. God is pleased even with the smallest of our charitable deeds. So, here is a wonderful concept of the Bhagavadgita cosmology, mentioned in some manner in the seventh chapter and stated in a different form in the eighth chapter. What I have told you now is very little. These little verses contain a world of meaning, and all the aspects of every school of phi...

The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita:10.4 - Swami Krishnananda.

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======================================================================================== Friday 12, December 2024. 05:30. Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable-4. Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================= Karma or action, according to the Bhagavadgita gospel, is a mysterious, comprehensive law which no doubt includes the ordinary actions that we perform in daily life, but does not exhaust itself merely in these actions. The karmas are actions of the various individuals—psychological as well as physical, and also social. They are the reverberations, sympathetic reactions, as it were, of a cosmic pulsation which has been set into motion by the ideation of the Supreme Being. God's will is operating behind your activity. Your actions therefore are not your actions. This one sentence can be said to be the whole of the Gita. Your actions are not your actions. They are the actions of that principle whi...