Study of the Bhagavadgita : Chapter-4 : Post- 13. - Swami Krishnananda.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, February 24, 2021. 07:18. AM. Chapter 4: The Total Picture of Creation -4. Post-13. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a great history behind this question of whether there is a substance behind sensations or whether the world is made up of sensations only. Subjective philosophers in the West, such as Berkeley, concluded that the whole world is nothing but sensations only. If these five sensations are removed from you, there will be no world, and your body will also not be there. But a difficulty arises in the mind due to its very structure because it believes the sensations are sensing something, and if something is not there to be sensed, what are the senses going to sense? A question was put to Berkeley. “My dear Father,” (he was a clergyman) “what ...