The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 10.2. Swami Krishnananda.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday,April 02, 2021. 11 : 57. AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter - 10: Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All these are yajnas, or sacrifices, or a tapas, and therefore they are Yoga. Study of scriptures with concentration and a holiness of spirit is also regarded as a sacrifice, because concentration is involved there. But we are admonished that sacrifices which require physical material are lower than those forms of sacrifice where the mind alone functions and any physical appurtenance is not necessary. A feeling of charitableness, for instance, is an act of the mind, which is superior to the physical expression of it by way of parting with any external material when the inward feeling is absent. It is the feeling that counts, a...