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Bhagavad
Gita - September 19, 2008
Recapitulation
and Introduction to Chapter 3
Swami
Yogatmananda
Vedanta
Society of Providence
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Summary
of this lecture:
The Bhagavad Gita is an allegorical battlefield of our life. It is about
relative good and evil and ultimate liberation. We all have struggles
in our lives and it sometimes becomes hard to decide how to act. The
conflict must be resolved. There are tendencies that guide us to act
according to likes and dislikes. Against these, are tendencies that
guide us to what is right. Arjuna is shirking away from decision to
fight. Lord Krishna responds: "Don't give in to this unmanliness.
It doesn't become you." He shows that the soul is immortal, forms
keep on changing. Names give the illusion of reality of form.
The intellectual understanding of "I am not the body" can
become a practical experience through the practice of yoga, which is
the science that converts the intellectual concept into the practical
experience.
This brings us to the beginning of Chapter 3 which begins with Arjuna's
burning question felt in every heart that is seeking expression. "If
this Knowledge of the Self is supreme, then why you push me into the
terrible work?"
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