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A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 46 - Swami Krishnananda.

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===================================================================================== Wednesday 21, Aug 2024, 06:20. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 8: The Stages of Yoga-4. Swami Krishnananda Post-46. ===================================================================================== Asmad ajnanasanbhutam hrtstham jnanasinatmanah:  Therefore Arjuna, rend asunder, break this darkness of ignorance that is veiling your consciousness. You have to rend asunder this veil by the effort of your own mind. Here is a very concentrated statement on what Yoga practice is. More details will be told in the Sixth Chapter. By Yoga, by jnana, by attainment of true Selfhood, you pierce through the veil of ignorance which makes you feel always that you are a finite individual, not knowing the fact that there is an infinitude that is around you in the form of this very vast space-time cosmos. This space-time cosmos itself is your larger self. Your true being is as wide as this vast space. Can y...