The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 5.5. Swami Krishnananda.
------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, November 10, 2020. 10 : 01. AM. Chapter 5: Life as a Yajna or Sacrifice - 5. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Emotional involvements are studied in psychoanalysis, sometimes known as 'abnormal psychology'. By a deep understanding of our own self, we may be a healthy person psychically, and psychoanalytically we are perfectly hale and robust. But from the point of view of yoga, we may still be an abnormal person – because abnormality does not necessarily mean being a psychoanalytic patient. There can be a 'metaphysical error' as philosophers would put it, apart from a mere social, political or emotional mistake that we commit. Here it is that yoga goes beyond mere human ways of thinking, much less social and political ways. It is a cosmic way of envisaging everything, which will inject a sort of shock into us. We may begin to shudder even to think of the possibility of...