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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita-2.7 -Swami Krishnananda.

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============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, May 17, 2020. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The leader of the Pandava forces, from the point of view of military strategy, was Arjuna. It was he who finally agreed that war was the only way—there was no way out. But it is he who became diffident, in contradistinction to the spirit of valour which he exhibited earlier. There is a great mystical situation before every seeker also. Every one of us is convinced that God is All. Who is not convinced? We have read the scriptures; we have listened to the Srimad Bhagavatam; we have attended satsangas; we have heard so many sermons from Mahatmas. We agree that the realisation of God is the ultimate goal of life and nothing else is worth attaining, but t