Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 17.4 - Swami Krishnananda.
=============================================================== =============================================================== Saturday, February 26, 2022. 20:00. Chapter 17. The Play of the Cosmic Powers-4. ============================================================== GITOAPADESAM The practice of Yoga is not, therefore, a simple affair. It is hard, because we have to move in the midst of two opposing currents of power, and with whatever understanding we have, it is necessary for us to free ourselves from involvement in the outward-going impulses. The effort of consciousness to move in harmony with the inward-going urges, tending towards the Centre which is everywhere, which is what we call God, the Absolute, is Yoga proper. In a traditional and epic manner, the Sixteenth Chapter of the Gita speaks of these two powers, the demoniacal and the divine, with this philosophical and spiritual background of its message. It is, ordinarily, not easy to go with the current of the inward-m...