The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 12.7. Swami Krishnananda.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 4, 2021. 9:12. PM. The First Six Chapters of the Bhagavadgita Chapter-12. Control of the Senses : 7. (Spoken on Bhagavadgita Jayanti) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So yoga, according to the Bhagavadgita, is not killing the senses. It is also not indulging in the senses. It is harmony that the Bhagavadgita teaches. You are not over-friendly with your sensory irrational instincts, nor are you inimical to them. You are a good teacher, a schoolmaster, as it were, a medical man, a psychologist who is not angry with the patient but understands the condition of the patient. So here you have to be very cautious in applying a harmonious yardstick of measuring the present condition of your irrational behaviour, potential or otherwise, and your higher reason has to b...