Gita 02.38 – To reconcile the Gita’s contradictions, recognize the multi-level nature of its discussions Link : https://www.thespiritualscientist.com/gita-02-38-to-reconcile-the-gitas-contradictions-recognize-the-multi-level-nature-of-its-discussions/ sukha-duḥkhe same kṛtvā lābhālābhau jayājayau tato yuddhāya [...]
Bhakti Sastri -> 054 2nd Ch - 1st sec -> Arjuna surrender & enquiry 2nd ch - 2nd sec verse 11 to 13 -> [...]
Krishna’s stark self-contradiction - In the Bhagavad-gita second chapter, we encounter one of its starkest self-contradictions in two successive verses. First, it urges Arjuna to [...]
Some people ask: “If we stay equal and unaffected amidst happiness and distress, gain and loss, victory and defeat, as the Bhagavad-gita (02.38) recommends, won’t [...]
Pleasure, profit, success. We look forward to these in life. But they are only one part of the package. They are inevitably and inextricably bound [...]
We may find the Bhagavad-gita’s injunction to stay equipoised amidst success and failure (2.38) perplexing: “Isn’t it natural to feel happy when we succeed and [...]
