The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita : 17.6. - Swami Krishnananda.
Swami Chinmayananda: Take no pride in your possession, in the people (at your command), in the youthfulness (that you have). Time loots away all these in a moment. Leaving aside all these, after knowing their illusory nature, realise the state of Brahman and enter into it. ============================================================================== Thursday 22, Feb 2024 07:00. Chapter 17: The Play of the Cosmic Powers - 6. ============================================================================= Any kind of retributive or animalistic behaviour where values are wrested out of things and centred in one's own self, where people and objects of the world are treated as nothings in comparison with one's self, where we become the sole standard of judgement and everyone else a tool to ourselves, where such is the outlook of our life, we can imagine that tamas is predominant in us. When we want to exploit the world for the satisfaction of our own so-called outlook o...