Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 13
Now a question arises, as to how the soul which is sentient, becomes an onlooker of the insentient intellect etc., because the onlooker can see objects of its own class? The answer is, that the soul identifies itself, with the insentient matter and accepts its own separate entity as 'I am'. This 'I' is neither insentient, nor sentient. By identifying itself with matter, it (man) says, "I am rich or I am learned." By giving high value to embodiment of consciousness (self), it says, "I am Brahma'. Thus this 'I', is the soul seated in Nature, which is the cause of his birth, in good and bad wombs (13/21). Thus, the embodied soul, has both the portions, the sentient, as well as the insentient. The sentient portion, attracts him towards the Lord, while the insentient portion because of identity with matter, attracts him towards matter, and thus he becomes an onlooker of intellect, mind, senses, sense-objects and body etc. This assumed identity, or affinity, is the root cause of a0 evils. |
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