The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 8.7. Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== Friday, May 05, 2023. 07:30. Chapter 8: The Yoga of Action -7. ======================================================================== But we are hardboiled ‘persons' demanding total independence of our individuality. This is perhaps the meaning of the Biblical story of the Fall of the angel from the Garden of Eden. It is the assertion of the individuality; Lucifer became Satan. The angel has become the individual with a flint-like egoism asserting independence from God and claiming equal rights with God Himself. This is the travesty of affairs in the history of the individual. One who knows this secret cannot be bound by action. But people have no awareness of the inner meaning of action. In the slokas of the Third Chapter we have the basic principles of Karma Yoga stated, how we have to conduct ourselves in this world. We have to move in the world not as human beings at all. A true Yogi, in the sense of th...