The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita-2.8 -Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 07, 2020.5:42. AM. Chapter 2- Challenges of the Spiritual Seeker - 8. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. This doubt will come at the last moment, at the critical point when everything is ready to strike the match. When the fire is going to be ignited, at that very moment the spirit doubts. “Doubts are our traitors,” says Milton in a passage. Our enemies are our doubts, and finally we have a doubt after everything is clear; and that final doubt crushes down all that we have done up to this time. Finally the doubt comes: Is it after all going to bring anything, or am I going to lose everything under the pretext of going to gain God to attain salvation? This doubt will not present itself in the earlier stages. The most ferocious enemy always comes later; the lesser powers are released earlier. In every war, in every battle, the minor powers are used first and the powerful reserv