The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 10.8. Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, May 19, 2021. 06:12. PM. Chapter - 10 : Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-8. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Difficult is all this for the mind to understand, and we are not supposed to go too high when we are in a lower stage. We will know what is above us when we reach the stage that is immediately below. Each time we are given only the vision of one step ahead; we cannot have the total vision of all things at the stroke of a moment. Just now we can have an inkling of what is immediately above us, and further on we cannot know anything. When we reach that second step, or achieve the immediately higher level, we will have the vision of the next higher level. Nature reveals its secrets by degrees, and the whole secret cannot be given in one instant. The Bhagavadgita, in its Sixth Chapter, tells us that the higher Self is the controlli...