The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 6.1 -Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================ ================================================================ Tuesday, March 08, 2022. 06:00. Chapter 6: Universal Action -1. =============================================================== In a single verse which occurs in the fifth chapter of the Bhagavadgita, the gradual stages of the ascent of human perspective are given to us. "Yoga-yukto visuddhatma vijitatma jitendriyah, sarvabhuttmabhutatma kurvann api na lipyate. Jitendriyah": ‘One who has restrained the senses.' This is the definition of a person who has risen above the ordinary prosaic level of attachment to objects. The connection of the senses with objects is so common and apparent that we may almost be said to be living in object-consciousness, and living an object life, a fact that would be obvious. When we analyse our own minds and discover what we are contemplating, all our contemplations are of objects—of this and that and what not.