The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 5.1 -Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================= ========================================================= Friday, November 19, 2021. 6:00.AM. The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 5.1 Chapter-5.God is Our Eternal Friend - 1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In our rapid study of the Bhagavadgita, we could observe that there is an inherent defect in the understanding ingrained in human nature by the reply that Bhagavan Sri Krishna gave, as a retort, to the problems raised by Arjuna. This defect, this shortcoming, was also pointed out in the third chapter. The human way of thinking is not necessarily the right way of thinking, though it is accepted as the norm of thinking in the world of human beings. But, unfortunately, the world does not consist only of human beings—a point which man cannot accept due to the egoism of his nature. The ego is self-assertive and proclaims its superiority ove