The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 5.4. Swami Krishnananda.
------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, November 04, 2020. 11 : 30. AM. Chapter 5: Life as a Yajna or Sacrifice - 4. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is a profound philosophy that is hidden behind performance of sacrifice, self-control, practice of yoga, the control of senses, the restraint of the mind and the stabilising of the intellect and the reason. We have to perform a double process – sometimes mentioned in the Bhagavadgita and also in Patanjali – of vairagya and abhyasa, a dual action of withdrawal and union. The performance of this dual function may be said to be a simultaneous action taking place, as recovering from illness is also the regaining of health and the going away of night is the coming in of day. There is no temporal successiveness in these processes; they happen to be a simultaneous occurrence. Thus, the vairagya that we speak of in yoga, the dissociation of consciousness from erroneous th...