Study of the Bhagavadgita : Chapter-3 : Post- 7. - Swami Krishnananda.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, January 12, 2021. 11:03. AM. Chapter 3: The Transmigration of the Soul - 7. -------------------------------------------------------- It is not possible to know why desire arises at all unless we reach the state of the Transcendent Being. We have to take it for granted that desire is the cause of the delimitation of the Universal Consciousness as an individual, so-called, a person. Desire is actually a wish of consciousness to be something and to do something. Inasmuch as something is not everything, it becomes only something for the purpose of achieving something. You are what you are; you cannot be another person. Though the same Universal Consciousness is pervading you and everybody, the wish of that Universal to be only something, for the sake of achieving something, has limited itself to one person, as if there is no connection of one with the other. This is because the wish is for only certa...