Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

================================================================ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/04/2020. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sanhkya Yogam -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I hinted yesterday that the spiritual seeker mostly finds himself in this predicament when he cannot handle the world properly. In one condition of the mind, the world is an object of delight and enjoyment—as a property. In another condition of the mind, it looks like an obstacle from which the earlier we extricate ourselves, the better. We wish to free ourselves from all our entanglements in the world.  But a third stage comes when the world reacts in an adverse manner upon the mind that has thought it to be a redundant tail, as it were, of its perception. Then it is that there is actually a humiliating coming down of the aspiring conscious...