The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita : 7.3 - Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= Thursday, 22 Jun, 2023. 06:15. Chapter 7: Meditation – A Discipline of Self-Integration - 3. ========================================================================= The grossest manifestation of reality may be said to be the five elements in the cosmological process; and until we reach this stage of vital contact with the five elements, we are cut off from reality in a very significant manner. At present, we are out of touch with reality. That explains our misery in life, our sorrows, and our difficulties even in understanding what the world is made of. Scientific analysis, even logical approaches, will not serve any purpose finally when the world of five elements, or the world as such, is considered to be a total alien to us from the way in which we are encountering the world at present. To us, all people around us are aliens – the world is a foreigner, and it is an object of the senses. It is an object in suc...