The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 10.3. Swami Krishnananda.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, April 16, 2021. 10:01. AM. Chapter - 10: Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-3. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a hard thing for the mind to entertain, because no human being is accustomed to think in this manner. We have a stereotyped way of thinking which is the traditional outlook of life, which is essentially selfish, personal and materialistic, physical and rooted in the utter isolatedness of sense from the whole of the environment. The very quintessence of Yoga practice is stated in two verses towards the end of the Fifth Chapter, which is detailed out in an expanded form in the Sixth Chapter. The contact of the senses with objects outside has to be severed. This is the first instruction. Here we are likely to make a mistake in understanding the meaning of this statement. The objects have to be severed from their contact with...