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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 3.4 -Swami Krishnananda.

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  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, October 26,, 2020. 07 : 21. AM. Chapter-3. The World is the Face of God - 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------- But suffering is also a kind of catharsis that is administered to the soul to purge its sins. It is not a curse that has descended upon us. Suffering is not a curse. It is a cleansing process, like a fever that comes to clean the system and throw out the toxic matter from the body. We suffer due to certain automatic reactions that are set up by certain actions. Actions are performed by people without the knowledge of the nature of the consequences that these actions would produce, because the consequences are conditioned by factors beyond one’s thought. We have some idea as to what we are capable of doing, but we cannot have a complete idea of what we fall on, because the effects are determined by various factors other than merely the idea about it in the mind of the doer

The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 3.3 -Swami Krishnananda.

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  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, October 02,, 2020.  Chapter-3. The World is the Face of God - 3. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The life of a saint is a mystic Mahabharata itself. Every sage or saint has passed through all the stages of the Mahabharata conflict. No one lived as a great saint without passing through untold hardships, and no one ever left this world with the feeling that it is all milk and honey flowing. The truth of the world becomes evident to the eyes that are about to close to this world; the untutored mind takes it for what it is not. Hence the glory of the royal coronation and success ended in untold grief, because of a negative aspect that was hidden in the joy of the coronation. There was something lacking. It was a glory that was bestowed upon Yudhishthira by the power of people, like the ascent of a person to the throne of a ministry by the raising of hands of the vast public. But t