The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 7.3 -Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= Tuesday, January 31, 2023. 06:00. Chapter 7: The Art of Meditation.-3. ========================================================================= So, there is a social self. Social self means the particular person or object with which the consciousness of a person has become identified for a peculiar reason, which varies from person to person. When consciousness identifies itself with any object, that object becomes the self, because consciousness is the self. What we call ‘self' is nothing but self-consciousness. But if we are able to transfer our consciousness so intensely and vehemently in respect of a person or an object outside, that person or object becomes the self, and then becomes a centre of attraction and love. That is the so-called artificial self that is created by the identification of consciousness externally with the secondary self, or the gaunatman. There is the bodily self, called the vichata