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The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita:10.2 - Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================================== Wednesday 11, September 2024. 05:30. Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable-2. ========================================================================================== The comprehensive philosophy of the Gita is presented in a single verse here again, as in several other places. We should not be excessively religious, or excessively anything, because any kind of excess, even if it be devotion, so-called, entails a kind of dislike and hatred which unwittingly enters into the field of our consciousness. We are made in such a way that we cannot exist without hating something. We may be high class devotees of God, yogis par excellence, but the mind is made in such a way that it cannot escape this predicament of condemning something, deriding something, looking down upon something and contrasting something with another thing. This attitude is unfortunate and is not a positive comp