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Commentary on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita- Discourse 3.7 - Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, May 09, 2020. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins ā€“ Sankhya Yogam -7. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The individual, who is the perceiver of this so-called external world, is also constituted only of the three gunas. The bricks out of which the world is made are the very bricks that also make our body. #The mind is subtle matter and the physical body is gross matter, and this grossness and subtlety depend upon the extent of the rarefaction of the gunas of prakriti that have gone into the composition of this body. ##Nevertheless, whatever is in the world outside is also within us. ##So there is an organic connection between the subject and the object, and therefore, our judgments about things will not be finally tenable if we do not take into consideration our own involvement in ...