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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 3.7 -Swami Krishnananda.

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  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, February 05,, 2021. 07 : 15. AM. Chapter-3. The World is the Face of God - 7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here we find Arjuna at the very beginning of the Bhagavadgita. All the supports and all the weapons that we have in our hands do not seem to be sufficient to meet the powers that are arrayed before us in battle. The soul recoils from the fact of its having to come in opposition to the powers of the world which are vastly arrayed before it. Then doubts arise. I mentioned to you something about the nature of the havoc that doubt can play in our minds, and doubts will not leave us till the last moment of our lives. There are varieties of doubts; when one doubt goes, another one comes that was not there previously. Doubts shake us from the root, and we become diffident at that momen