Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 15.2 - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================= ==================================================================== Thursday, December 23, 2021. 9:00. PM. The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita-15-2. Chapter-15 : The Way and the Goal -2. ================================================================== Whatever be the method that we adopt will not matter much, inasmuch as the attainment is going to be uniform, and common in either case. An unnecessary subjection of oneself to torture under the notion of austerity, or tapas, while the body is not prepared for it, would be unwelcome on the spiritual path. Spiritual practice is not a mortifying suffering; it is not a sorrow that we are courting as a part of the requirement on the way. In fact, the growth of the spirit from the lower level to the higher is like the spontaneous expansion of the dimension of anything that grows in the world, and when there is a healthy growth of anything there is no pain involved i...