The Moksha Gita: Chapter: 8 -Slogas - 1 to 5. - by Swami Sivananda - Commentary by Swami Krishnananda
================================================================================================== Monday, 02 November 2026, 18:00. Books Bhagavad Gita & Hinduism The Moksha Gita: 8- Swami Sivananda. Chapter 8: Ignorance and Wisdom -1. Slogas 1to5. Commentary: Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================================== 1. गुरुरुवाच ॥ अहं कायो मदीयोऽयं देहश्चयं सती मम । पुत्रोऽसौ मे च विप्रोऽहं स्थूलोऽहं पण्डितोऽप्यहम् ॥ कृष्णोऽहमिति मन्येत यः स बद्धोऽज्ञ एव च ॥१॥ 1. The Guru said: He who thinks "I am the body, This body is mine, She is my wife, He is my son, I am a Brahmin, I am fat, I am black, I am a Pundit" is an ignorant man. He is bound. The person who asserts the existence of separate beings is an ignorant man. His life is one of bondage merely. The length of time taken by an individual to possess a desired object is proportional to the intensity of the individual's feeling of identificat...