Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 6
INTRODUCTION
The Self (soul), which is the base of egoism and attachment, is a fragment of God and is ever-existent and has identity with God, Who pervades everywhere. In the self, there is neither egoism nor attachment, but man by identifying himself with the body and the worldly things, accepts these as in him. Actually, he is free and capable of identifying himself with them. But, it is upto him, whether he accepts this identification or does not. It is not so, that he is not free or capable to breaking off, this identification. It is, he himself who has accepted this affinity with the body and the world, and not otherwise. Therefore, he who can assume this connection, can also snap it. Every human being, is free to accept that he is a householder or a Sadhu. Similarly he can accept things as his own or not his. He accepts, that he is a baby, a boy, a youth and an old man at different stages of life. Similarly, he accepts toys as his own in babyhood or boyhood while in youth and old age he accepts money and property etc., as his own. Thus, he can accept an affinity or renounce it. This affinity, can be renounced easily, because it is based on mere assumption.
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