Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

===================================================================================== Sunday 29, September 2024, 04:50. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 9: The Yoga of Meditation - 2. Swami Krishnananda Post-52. ===================================================================================== The Bhagavadgita says, in one or two slogas, that you have to raise your lower self by the power of the higher Self. You should not be always a physical self, an instinctive self, a desire-filled self, a sensory self or a social self. The Self cannot be so described as something conditioned by other things. The very meaning of Self is unconditionality, indivisibility and self-sufficiency. If the self of yours is inadequate in some way, you cling to certain associations outside, as I mentioned, so that you look like an adequate self. But the Self cannot be made adequate or self-sufficient by any accumulation of external factors. Society, objects of sense, or even the satisfaction of the phy...