Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

  ======================================================================================= Wednesday 18, June 2025, 09:00. Books Srimad Bhagavad Gita The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 11-3:  Chapter 11: Participating with the Intention of the Universe-3. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================= In the intensity of expression, in a differentiated manner, they look like various bodies – the physical body, the astral body, the causal body, or, as you might have heard, there are five layers of our individuality. These are called, in our Sanskrit language, annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, vijnanamaya and anandamaya koshas. The physical, the vital, the mental, the intellectual, and the causal layers are not five shirts put on by the Atman. They are a thick layer of cloud distributed in a variegated intensity of expression, as a cloud may cover the sun and we cannot say there are many kinds of cloud. Cloud ...

  =========================================================================================== Saturday 07, June 2025, 07:30. The Relevance of the Bhagavadgita to Humanity 11-2:  Chapter 11: Participating with the Intention of the Universe-2. Swami Krishnananda. ============================================================================================ The energies – sattva, rajas and tamas – can arrange themselves in any form; a particular form that they take is called a world, and we are a part of the world. Inasmuch as our mind, our consciousness, our intelligence is tethered to this particular form only, we cannot visualise any world other than this particular world. Our consciousness is tied to this body so forcefully that we cannot imagine that there can be anything other than this body. It is the only reality. In a similar way, the perceptive consciousness gets accustomed, by a vehemence of association, with this particular picture presented by a given pattern of the ...