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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 10.1. Swami Krishnananda.

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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Friday,March 26,  2021. 10 : 53. AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10: Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-1. -------------------------------------------------------------- There is another important theme expounded in the Fourth Chapter, viz., sacrifice as a practice of Yoga, in which context certain details of the variegated methods of the performance of this sacrifice as Yoga are delineated. The adoration of the gods, the celestials, or the deities of religion is a sacrifice. And any sacrifice is also a Yoga, because sacrifice means a parting of oneā€™s own self in some measure in the direction of the achievement of a larger Self, so that in every form of sacrifice a lower form of self is surrendered or sacrificed to a higher form of Se...