Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

------------------------------------ Monday, September 07, 2020. 0847.AM. Discourse 5: The Second Chapter Concludes – The Establishment of the Soul in Universality -2. ------------------------------------------------- 1. The sense organs have only one work, which is to take us out of ourselves and place us somewhere where we are not. That is to say, we are compelled by the sense organs to be continuously conscious of something which is not ourselves; and the more we are conscious of an object, the less we are conscious of ourselves. There is a loss of Self. This is called atma-hana in the Isavasya Upanishad. Asurya nama te loka andhena tamasa v?ta?, ta?s te pretyabhigacchanti ye ke catmahano jana? (Isa 3). The killers of the Self, as the Isavasya Upanishad puts it, are those people who ignore the very existence of the Self by not being conscious of its existence, and of the role it plays in their life and in the direction of their actions. They depend entirely on the imp...