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The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita : 6.4 - Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Friday,  02 June, 2023. 07:00. Chapter 6: Self-Restraint and the Nature of the Self-4. ========================================================================= Now, I turn your attention to a definition of this Self, which is a crucial point in our study of the sixth chapter of the Bhagavadgita, which describes the art of meditation, the science of self-integration by means of an inward communion of the lower self with the higher Self ā€“ this was the subject of our study yesterday. We have, first of all, to de-condition our minds from assuming any notion already about the characteristic of the higher Self, the lower self, etc. All of our learning about this has to be foregone for the time being because many of us may not have a correct notion of what this Self means. We are mostly under a misapprehension concerning the nature of the Self. If you can recollect what I told you yesterday, it is a name that we gi...