The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 5.1. : Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= Thursday, February 02, 2023. 07:00. Chapter 5: The Mortal and the Immortal-1. ========================================================================= The First Chapter of the Bhagavadgita pinpoints the basic difficulties which a spiritual seeker may face in the long run, in spite of the preparations that he might have made with all his logical conclusions and sincerity of purpose. In the earlier stages of our aspirations we do not fully realise the problems that are hidden deep, invisibly, beneath the outer layers of our personality, not directly connected with our daily life. We have an unconscious personality apart from the conscious one limited to this bodily existence, and this unconscious level of ours is larger in its content than the little expression of it we visualise outside as the body and its social relations. There are fears of various types which keep us secretly unhappy, and many of the acti...