The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 10.7. Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, April 26, 2021. 07:37. PM. Chapter - 10 : The Need for Sankhya -7. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, the impulsions within a human being, mental as well as sensory, are also to be attributed to the activity of these gunas. It is not merely the physical body that is a product of these gunas. Gunas mean the properties of prakriti: sattva, rajas, tamas. They are called gunas in Sanskrit. It is not merely the physical body that is made up of the gunas, but even the inner constituents of the human personality, what is called the subtle body, are also products of the gunas. Now, our contact with things, our longing for things and our relationship with things, in any manner whatsoever, is a wondrous dramatic activity of these gunas among themselves. This is a very...