I Heard About Bhagavad Gita Very Early In My Childhood, From The Age Of Five Onwards. It Was One Of The Earliest Things I Started To Read When I Started To Read. And It Was Very Much A Part Of My Consciousness. In The Beginning, I Saw The "bhagavad Gita" As A Text That Was Very Classical, Much Like The "iliad" And The "odyssey" - A Mythical Saga That Showed The Eternal Conflict Between Good And Evil. But Much Later, As I Grew Up, I Realized That It Was Much More Than That.

-Deepak Chopra

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I Heard About Bhagavad Gita Very Early

Deepak Chopra

I Heard About Bhagavad Gita Very Early In My Childhood, From The Age Of Five Onwards. It Was One Of The Earliest Things I Started To Read When I Started To Read. And It Was Very Much A Part Of My Consciousness. In The Beginning, I Saw The "bhagavad Gita" As A Text That Was Very Classical, Much Like The "iliad" And The "odyssey" - A Mythical Saga That Showed The Eternal Conflict Between Good And Evil. But Much Later, As I Grew Up, I Realized That It Was Much More Than That.

Topic

Evil

Childhood

Age

Pain Is Not The Same As Suffering. Left To Itself, The Body Discharges Pain Spontaneously, Letting Go Of It The Moment That The Underlying Cause Is Healed. Suffering Is Pain That We Hold On To. It Comes From The Mind’s Mysterious Instinct To Believe That Pain Is Good, Or That It Cannot Be Escaped, Or That The Person Deserves It.

Letting Go

Spiritual

Pain