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As in the, within our memory, there are two great wars, world war number one, world war number two. We have experienced

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"As in the, within our memory, there are two great wars, world war number one, world war number two. We have experienced"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

As in the, within our memory, there are two great wars, world war number one, world war number two. We have experienced. So I think some of you or many of you have not experienced what is the war number one—in 1914 it was started, and I think none of you were born in 19 . . . (laughs). So I have seen; I was a child at that time. The war was declared in 1914. So beyond these two world wars, there were, there were another two great world wars. That is mentioned in the history of the epics, epics of India, Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata: the war between Rāma and Rāvaṇa and the war between the two cousin-brothers, Kurus and Pāṇḍava.

Now here, here the sense, the senses . . . in the fighting we require to use our senses. Now, when the senses were withdrawn, when the senses . . . sense satisfaction . . . Arjuna's statement that "I shall not fight," that was his sense satisfaction. Because he was thinking in bodily relation, therefore that sort of thinking, that "I shall not fight," this mental state was his sense's satisfaction. But here, when he agreed to fight, that was not his sense satisfaction; that was the satisfaction of the Lord.

Therefore we have to purify our senses, not to use it for my satisfaction, but to use it for the satisfaction of the Supreme. That's all. That is . . . that is our perfection. You are not devoid of the senses. Not that after being situated in spiritual consciousness your senses become null and void. No. Senses cannot be null and void, because life means senses. Without senses there is no life. But the . . . this is the process of purification of the senses. That's all.

Now there, there is another example. In India there were . . . why India? In this world. As in the, within our memory, there are two great wars, world war number one, world war number two. We have experienced. So I think some of you or many of you have not experienced what is the war number one—in 1914 it was started, and I think none of you were born in 19 . . . (laughs). So I have seen; I was a child at that time. The war was declared in 1914. So beyond these two world wars, there were, there were another two great world wars. That is mentioned in the history of the epics, epics of India, Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata: the war between Rāma and Rāvaṇa and the war between the two cousin-brothers, Kurus and Pāṇḍava.

Page Title:As in the, within our memory, there are two great wars, world war number one, world war number two. We have experienced
Compiler:Soham
Created:2022-12-31, 11:25:41
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