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Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 24-2.Swami Krishnananda

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 ======================================================================== ====================================================================== Wednesday, August 17, 2022. 19:00. Chapter 24: Sannyasa and Yoga are One -2. ======================================================================= Now, incidentally, it will be learned that the Self is consciousness. There is the identity of what we call consciousness with the fact of selfhood. There is nothing that can be called a self except consciousness. Consciousness is that which knows, and it cannot become the known object at any time. It cannot become other than what it is. It cannot become an object. It cannot move out of itself. A question of consciousness moving out of itself would imply the possibility of consciousness becoming other than what it is, and consciousness becoming other than what it is would mean consciousness becoming unconsciousness, because that which is not consciousness, that which is other than consciousnes...