Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 22-1. Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= ======================================================================= Monday, June 20, 2022. 19:30 Chapter 22: The Integration of Sannyasa and Yoga -1. ========================================================================= The concluding verses of the Fifth Chapter were under our consideration. Sparśān kṛtvā bahir bāhyāṁś cakṣuś caivāntare bhruvoḥ, prāṇāpānau samau kṛtvā nāsābhyantaracāriṇau (BG 5.27); yatendriyamanobuddhir munir mokṣaparāyaṇaḥ, vigatecchābhayakrodho yaḥ sadā mukta eva saḥ (BG 5.28). All this has been observed yesterday. The act of self-restraint is summarised here in these two verses. Self-restraint is shutting out all sense contact by extricating the conscious element from externalised perception and enabling it to return to itself, which is the process of pratyahara, and regulating the process of breathing so that the alternate movement of the breathing process thro...