Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, April 29, 2021. 11:04. AM.  Chapter 8: Creation and Life After Death -6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A very homely and easily intelligible analogy that I may place before you to understand this interconnectedness is the organism of our own personality, the sarira, which is the illustration given by such theologists and philosophers like Sri Ramanuja. God is sariri, and the whole creation is sarira. The relationship between the universe and God is sarira-sariri-sambandha. What is the relationship between the body and the soul?  There is some sort of a very clear, intelligible relationship between the body and the soul, though we may not identify one with the other. The body is not the soul, but we cannot keep the body here and the soul there; they are so much related that even the word 'relation' is a poor word to describ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, April 28, 2021. 07:31. PM.  Chapter - 10 : Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is also, then, a spontaneous harmony of the movement of the pranas. The whole attention should be on freedom of the self in the absorption of consciousness in God. The senses, the mind and the intellect should stand together as if there is a single flame of light emerging from the self within. Usually the senses work somewhere, the mind is thinking something, and the intellect is acquiescing in the activities of the mind and senses; they never work in harmony. We are agitated personalities on account of the lack of harmony among the senses, the mind and the intellect.  Like three flames of light joining into a single flame, the power of the senses and the power of the mind and the power of reason should stand toget...