A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 47 - Swami Krishnananda.
===================================================================================== Wednesday 28, Aug 2024, 06:40. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 8: The Stages of Yoga-5. Swami Krishnananda Post-47. ===================================================================================== What you have to offer to the Supreme Absolute is Atman, and not anything material. Atman is offered to the Paramatman. The jiva consciousness is dedicated to the Universal Consciousness. You are offered, nobody else. You offer yourself in the altar of the great yajna of Universal Consciousness – brahmarpanah. This is the greatest dedication that you can give to God. If God asks you, “What will you give me?” you cannot offer God some bananas or sweets because they are not your possessions. Only you are your possession. You have no right over anything in this world except your own self. Not even one needle can be your property, so the offering that you have to make to the Universal Being is onl...