Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 14, 2021. 8:05.AM. Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence - 6. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. So there is a danger, especially in the case of a spiritual seeker, when one is prone to imagine that sitting quiet is a state of inaction, and freedom from the bondage of action. Action binds because of the thought involved in it. Action by itself does not bind, because consciousness is not connected with it. The binding factor is the charging of consciousness. When consciousness vitalises action, it becomes a specific action. When there is a devitalisation of the action process by the withdrawal of consciousness or mentality in it, it ceases to be meaningful action. Knowing this, one has to try to reconcile in one's finite existence here the two aspects of one's nature, the phenomenal and the noumenal. 2. The verse of t...