Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

-------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, November 17, 2020. 08 : 25. AM. Chapter 5: Life as a Yajna or Sacrifice - 6. ------------------------------------------------- So, the yoga, the sacrifice – which is control of the senses, restraint of the mind, and the stabilising of the reasoning process, which is the yajna, the various types of yajna mentioned in the fourth chapter: prana, manas, indriya etc. mentioned there – all these suggest a single action on the part of our consciousness, namely an awakening into a higher Self. We may wonder why we should go on using the word 'Self' again and again, as if there is nothing else and no other word will connote what is our intention. The word 'Self' is a very important thing, because it suggests the true nature of things.  ----------------- We are not likely to understand the meaning of it because we are accustomed to identify self with our personality: 'yourself', ' myself', 'himself...

  ---------------------------------------------- Monday, November 16 2020. 01:44. PM. Chapter 8: The Yoga of Action-2. ---------------------------------------------- Every cell of the body is active, and our mind is never inactive. To think is to act, and to be really inactive would be to cease to think. Even in the so-called mental inactivity of deep sleep, the mind is subtly active in a different manner. The psychology of sleep reveals that the mind is not really inactive even in sleep. There is no occasion conceivable when we can be totally inactive. Right from the minutest atom up to the highest conceivable galaxy, one cannot see anything sitting idle or being inactive. This is one of the aspects of the reply of Krishna to Arjuna’s decision not to act. There is no such thing as ‘no action’; your action is inseparable from your being. Every finite entity is active on account of the very finitude of itself. Action is the necessary consequence of the finitude of entities. --------...