Posts

Showing posts from April, 2020

The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita-2.6 -Swami Krishnananda.

Image
=========================================== =========================================== 20/04/2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The decision is taken by God Himself—man cannot take the decision. And Sri Krishna took up the lead in this path of what decision is to be taken finally.  *Is the universe as an object to be retained, even in a subtle form, or is it to be abolished altogether?  **Is it to be absorbed totally?  ***And do we have to see to the deathbed of the entire objective existence, or is it necessary to strike a lesser note and come to an agreement with factors which are far below this level of extreme expectation?  Yudhishthira was wavering, he could not come to a conclusion; and we too are wavering. It is not easy for us to love God wholly, because that would mean the acceptance of the necessity to dissolve the whole world itself in the

The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita-2.5 -Swami Krishnananda.

Image
================================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07/04/2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 5. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The Udyoga Parva, which describes in a beautiful manner the assembly of the princes of the time in the court of Virata, goes further into greater detail of the contemplations of these princes.  *There are difficulties in the decisions to be taken—what is to be done?  **There are various opinions coming forth from various parties. Whenever a personality faces the world, the universe in front of it, it has various interpretations of it. Are we to make friends with it?  ###Are we somehow or other to adjust ourselves with it, to make its law our own law?  ####Are we to change th