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Spiritual Import of Religious Festivals -14.1.6 & 7.

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16/12/2017. Chapter :- 14.  The Gospel of the Bhagavadgita - 1.6 & 7. 1. Introduction -6. & 7. 6.1 The answer of Bhagavan Sri Krishna, representing the Unity of the cosmos, is simple and precise, though it is apparently a long gospel of many chapters. Arjuna was thoroughly mistaken in assessing the values of life. 6.2 Lord Krishna tells: "Your understanding is turbid; it is not clear enough to grasp the vitality of life. Nobody asked you to start the war. It is you who started this, and I merely said nothing against it. If you want it, have it and be done with it. After having started it of your own accord, relying on the strength of your own army, listening to nobody else's advice, what makes you now sing a different tune altogether, as if you are another person having nothing to do with the previous person that you were, who decided to wage the war?" 6.3 The answer of Arjuna was: "I do not know what to do. Tell me what is my duty." T