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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita-2.4 -Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/02/2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 4. Post-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #I am just giving an outline of the situation, which goes deeper then the ordinary psychological level. It touches the borderline of the spirit, and yet has not entered into the universal spirit. That situation is a terrible situation indeed, where we have lost everything that we can call our own, and lost our grip and hold over things which are near and dear to us, yet have lost also our grip over that which we are seeking. ##This is exactly the condition of being left adrift at sea. “I am at sea,” as they say, which means there is no succour. We are just sinking because there is no suppor

The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita-2.3 -Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03/02/2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 3. Post-3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. There is such a thing called the sorrow of the spirit, though it may look like an anomaly. How could there be sorrow for the spirit? Yes, there is some kind of situation in which our deeper self finds itself in its search for the Absolute. These are all interesting stages that are in mystical theology and the yoga of the advent of the spirit. Some of the songs and poems of the Vaishnava saints of the south, the Alvars, particularly the Nawars, and some of the rapturous expressions of the leading Shaivite saints, will be enough examples to us of the inexpressible and intricate spiritual p