The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 8.7 Swami Krishnananda.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, January 24, 2021. 09:27. AM. Chapter 8: The Yoga of Action-7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The properties move among the properties: gunah guneshu vartante.” It is not we that touch an object, it is not the sense organs that crave for a thing outside, it is the gunas that are trying to commune with the gunas that are outside. It is one wave in the ocean dashing against another wave, as it were, in the very same ocean. In this ocean of forces known as sattva, rajas and tamas, the individuals are like waves, and every object is such a wave. One wave collides with another wave due to the affinity one has with another on account of the basic similarity of structure, which is the ocean at the bottom. Our actions, our activities, our duties, whatever they are, are not really our actions, our duties, our performance...