A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 23 - Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================================== Monday 15, Apr 2024 06:40. Chapter 6: Sankhya – The Wisdom of Cosmic Existence - 2. Post-23. ============================================================================== How would you, then, make yourself fit for the universal vision if you are rejoicing in the world of the sense organs? Another slogam gives a little clue in this matter. Apuryamanam acalapratistham samudram apah pravisanti yadvat, tadvat kama yam pravisanti sarve sa santim apnoti na kamakami (Gita 2.70): A person filled with desires cannot have any vision of the Universal Spirit. If it could be possible, by way of intense austerity and restraint of sense organs, to withdraw the forces of the senses into your own self; if all the desires can merge into your universality as rivers merge in the ocean or as waves subside in the ocean; if the multifarious longings of the senses can melt down into the universal background of your own ...