Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

=========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, May 28, 2020. Chapter 5: The Mortal and the Immortal-5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, the sum and substance of the First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita is this much: a relinquishment of all effort, which originally was the spring of action of the seeking state. After years of spiritual practice one may content oneself with being the very same person that one was many years back and lead the little life of the man of the street either due to incapacity or due to a total disillusionment. Here there are several types of spiritual seekers who may have to face the same problems, no doubt, but who will be taken along different paths on account of the varying extent of the clarity of their spirits and the sincerity of purpose with which they have started the advent...

========================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Discourse 3: The Second Chapter Begins – Sankhya Yogam -10. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. All perception—finally, all knowledge—is a conditioned observation of things through the mind and the sense organs on account of prakriti conditioning things subjectively on the one hand and objectively on the other hand. Thus, sensory perception cannot be regarded as correct perception. Even pure mental cogitation cannot be regarded as correct perception, because the externality characterising the object vitiates the validity of any perception. The error of perception of any kind is the introduction of space and time in the midst of the otherwise indivisible movement of prakriti—subjectively as gunas, and also objectively as gunas. Between two waves in the ocean there ar...