Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

------------------------------------------------ Sunday, November 08, 2020. 10:59. AM. Discourse 5: The Second Chapter Concludes – The Establishment of the Soul in Universality - 10. -------------------------------------------------  In a cloth shop, we can get cloth. In a cutlery shop, we can get cutlery. In a grocery shop, we can get groceries. But we cannot get what is not there.  ------------------------------------- This world is the shop where there is sorrow—# duhkhalayam—and, therefore, we will reap only sorrow if we are tethered to the demands of the sense organs. The whole of yoga is nothing but the restraining of the powers of the sense organs, which compel us to think in terms of the anatman, and centring it in the Atman. It is a movement from the centrifugality of the sensory activity to the centripetality of the soul’s contemplation on itself. -------------------------------- # "Tada drastuh svarūpe avasthanam; vrtti sarupyam itaratra (Y.S. 1.3-4)." ------------...