Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 12, 2021. 06:59. PM.  Chapter - 10 : Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-7. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But one has to be careful, again, in understanding what the Upanishads mean, or the Bhagavadgita intends, or anyone connotes when they say that the Self and the universe are identical. It is easy to misunderstand the statement and it is hard to make out the significance thereof. The self is that which we regard as our own psychophysical individuality, the Mr. or Mrs., the “I” that we regard ourselves to be, this is the self for our practical purposes today. But if we analyse the motives behind the moods and activities of the so-called self of ours, we will realise that its intentions are selfish—‘selfish’ in a particular interpretation of the meaning of the self. The urge of the senses towards the objects is the action ...