Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

===================================================== Friday, August 28, 2020. 9:58.AM. Discourse 5: The Second Chapter Concludes – The Establishment of the Soul in Universality -1. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The impulsion to act arises due to the compulsion of prakriti’s modes, which always revolve and rotate in a cyclic fashion. Like the incessant movement of the spokes of a wheel in motion, the gunas of prakriti—sattva, rajas and tamas—keep perpetually moving and never resting. Inasmuch as everybody—myself, yourself, and all things—is constituted of these essentials of prakriti, the mutation which prakriti perpetually undergoes has a direct impact upon our individual existence, and we also undergo the same mutation. Whether we want to or not, we are forced to act in a particular direction. The whole point is: In what direction are we acting? 2. Action by itself is something like electricity, which i...