A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 8 - 5. Swami Krishnananda.
====================================================================== ===================================================================== Sunday, November 28, 2021.6:00. PM. A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 8 - 5. Chapter 8 : The Stages of Yoga -5. ===================================================================== As a little self you seem to be working even in the dream state, but you are a larger self in the waking state. The so-called distractions and diversification, and the varieties of the dream world, get absorbed into a larger self of your waking consciousness. In this Yoga that is briefly stated here, you raise your lower self to the higher Self that you are, and you become atmavan – true possessor of your own Self. You have lost yourself now by the wrong notion that things are outside you; therefore, you have to possess them or reject them. The desire to possess and reject arises on account of the wrong notion that the things that you want to possess or reject a...