The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 10.1 - Swami Krishnananda.

======================================================================= Friday, 16 Jun, 2023. 06:15. Chapter 10: Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration-1. ========================================================================= Chapter 10: Forms of Sacrifice and Concentration -1. There is another important theme expounded in the Fourth Chapter, viz., sacrifice as a practice of Yoga, in which context certain details of the variegated methods of the performance of this sacrifice as Yoga are delineated. The adoration of the gods, the celestials, or the deities of religion is a sacrifice. And any sacrifice is also a Yoga, because sacrifice means a parting of one's own self in some measure in the direction of the achievement of a larger Self, so that in every form of sacrifice a lower form of self is surrendered or sacrificed to a higher form of Self. Whenever the mind fixes its attention on something other than itself, which is supposed to be wider in its comprehension than...