The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 8.2. Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= Monday, April 10, 2023. 07:20. Chapter 8: The Yoga of Action -2. ========================================================================= One would wonder why should everything be active. Why is it that the whole universe is evolving and moving towards something? What is the matter? The matter is simple. The finite struggles to overcome its limitations, because the essential nature of the finite is not finitude. We are not finite entities, really speaking, and the consciousness of finitude is attempted to be overcome by the so-called activity involved in what we know as evolution. No action can be isolated from finitude. The vibration set up by every finite individual or entity is the action thereof. We are made up of various layers of personality, and every layer is vibrating with a tendency to overcome the limitations of finitude, with an urge to move onward, forward, for the realisation of a wider finitu...