Commentary on the Srimad Bhagavad Gita- Discourse 6.3. - Swami Krishnananda.
-------------------------------------------------------- Friday, December 11, 2020. 10:41. AM. Discourse 6: The Third Chapter Begins – The Relation Between Sankhya and Yoga -3. Post-2. ---------------------------------------------- We are involved in the world in a very, very mysterious manner. This involvement is actually the determining factor behind our correct way of approaching things. The involvement in the world is such that, as we have noted earlier, we are partly action bound on account of our psychophysical personality being constituted of the three gunas of prakriti. The mind is constituted of the tanmatras, and the physical body is constituted of the physical elements, so both the mind and the body are, in a way, tools in the intentions of prakriti, which is cosmic activity. Therefore, whoever has a mind or a body cannot totally abstain from action. It will be forced upon him because when the world moves, everybody in the world also moves. When the railway train moves...