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Krishna and Arjuna speak of war in the Bhagavad Gita

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As expanded on by Paramahansa Yogananda, Arjuna in all of us represents the firey will power in the lumbar centre. The Gita elaborates on the devotee's (Arjuna) everyday battle to establish King Soul as ruler over King Ego. This is a scientific approach(disciplined route) to God/Self Realization, a tale of self Vs Self. As a friend I caution not take this text as literal war with other human beings and kill them(there are no winners in war) but as one who is a unique expression of God I can only smile at whatever path is yours and try to be of service whenever possible. Perhaps I can better understand you now that we've opened up this discussion. I will quote just one section I was able to read over so that the masters words might be more clear than what I've been able to relay. Lastly I ask that you redirect you attention to the words of Hazrat Inayat Khan after reading this, who elaborates on Truth and the idea of right vs wrong.

Since you own a copy of the Gita with Yoganandas words explaining to us the significance of each stanza, I think it important to read the few verses leading up to this stage wherein Yogananda explains this...

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The Mahabharata tells us that in the battle between the good Pandus and the wicked Kurus, Krishna became the charioteer of the noble Pandu brother, Arjuna. The interpretation of this allegory is that when man's firey self-control (Arjuna) is ready to battle all the forces of the senses, then the Spirit (Krishna) becomes the devotee's charioteer, or guiding power. The spirit expresses Itself through the instrumentality of the intuition of the soul, Spirit's individualized reflection in man.

In the first stage of meditation, the devotee's mind is inextricably bound up with the sense consciousness. His mind is concentrated upon material sounds and restless thoughts. He is aghast to behold all the forces of restlessness and mental opposition arrayed against him. Millions of superficial devotees never pass beyond this state of a deadlocked psychological struggle between the senses and the soul forces of calmness and intuition.

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The devotee who is victorious in the initial psychological battle enters the second state of meditation, the metaphysical battle wherein his consciousness and life energy become centralized in the spinal centers. He sees himself as a warrior on the battlefield of the spine- the common field of spiritual forces and of the opposing mental or sense tendencies in their subtle form. When this battle is about to begin, the devotee feels a simultaneous pull toward the outgoing sense tendencies in the spinal centers and toward the inwardly turned spiritual forces of the soul. It is then that the devotee contacts the calm Spirit within and prayerfully asks that Divine Power to place the chariot of intuition between the subtle divine perceptions and the gross sense perceptions.

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The duality of consciousness, the progenitor of all states of both good and evil, with their common ancestor of the Absolute, or Cosmic Consciousness, will now be the cause of a painful quandary in the devotee. The Bhagavad Gita- a comprehensive metaphysical and psychological treatise- describes all experiences that come to the spiritual traveler on the path of emancipation. Thus far, concentration has been primarily on the positive states the devotee is striving toward. In the verses that follow- to the end of Chapter I and the first part of Chatper II- warning is given as to the negative states that try to intimidate the devotee and turn him from his goal. 'Forewarned is forearmed!' The devotee who understands the route he must travel will never feel unsure or dismayed at inevitable opposition.

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