Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity : 29-2. Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= ========================================================================= Wednesday, November 30, 2022. 07:00. Chapter 29: The Yoga of the Bhagavadgita -2. ========================================================================= And down the person goes to the level of matter and the conditions prescribed by the sense organs because pleasure is not only tantalising, it is very attractive. Who can resist the attraction? And what attraction can be there in the ideology that you have placed before yourself in yoga? You have ideally pictured before your mind a pleasure centre, which you call the goal of yoga, but there is a real, concrete, tangible, contactable pleasure centre whose realism is overwhelmingly more impressive than the doubtful impressiveness of the pleasure of an ideal that is only in the mind of the seeker. These are difficulties indeed, hard things. Did not the Buddha feel this difficulty? “I a...