--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Mr. Magoo" <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > > From Yogananda's Gita: > > > > (Kuru, from the Sanskrit root kri="work, material action" and > ksetra= > > "field"). This "field of action" is the human body with its > physical, > > mental and soul faculties, the field (kurukshetra) on which all > > activities of one's life take place. Gita/Yogananda's > > > > From Maharishi's Gita: > > > > "The field of the Kuru's, is a vast plain near Histinapur in the > > neighbourhood of Delhi. As it belonged to the Kurus at the time of > > this battle it is called Kurukshetra." Gita/MMY > > > > You be the judge....... > > I judge that when you take this part of MMY's > commentary on the verse out of context, it's > highly misleading. MMY has already gone into > considerable detail about the metaphorical > context of the battle. In this last part of > his commentary on the verse, he's simply providing > the (quasi-?) historical referents. > > Is there more to Yogananda's commentary on this > verse? Have you taken it out of context too, or > is this all he says? > In his Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita, Yogananda goes into considerable detail and explanation regarding the historical date of the Kurukshetra war, with dates ranging from 6,000 to 500 BC. He mentions 936 BC as the date his guru, Sri Yukteswar, calculated.
His Chapter 1 focuses on the "Inner Psychological and Spiritual Battlefield" that the Bhagavad Gita represents.
