Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 10- Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================= ======================================================================== Wednesday, December 22,2021. 7:00.PM Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : Discourse 40 The Thirteenth Chapter Concludes – Understanding Purusha and Prakriti POST-10. ========================================================================= The body cannot be conscious. Consciousness is different from the body; therefore, when there is bodily action—which is nothing but the action of prakriti, because the body is made up of prakriti's three gunas—we begin to imagine, “I am doing something. And because I feel that I am doing something, I also expect a result to follow from that action, and I must enjoy the result of that action. I am doing the action and, therefore, the fruit of that action should come to me.” Hence, karma phala comes as a recompense for the feeling that one is doing. But one who knows that prakriti alone does things, and activ...