The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 4.5 -Swami Krishnananda.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, September 11, 2021. 4:45.AM. Chapter- 4.The Cosmic Manifestation - 5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No mind can think in this manner because of the desires that are inside us—intense desire, which also, when it is frustrated, becomes intense anger. Desire and anger—these will not allow us to contemplate in this manner. Either we have desire or we have anger; one of the two is always there. We cannot be free from both. But they are one and the same thing appearing in two ways—anger and desire are not two things. When Arjuna queried, “What is this obstruction to this visualisation that you are proclaiming?” Bhagavan Sri Krishna said, “Desire and anger are the obstacles.” They are all-swallowing, all-devouring, fire-like, and insatiable. They can destroy anything, and as l