Sublime

Le matin, je baigne mon intellect dans la philosophie stupéfiante et cosmique de la Bhagavad Gîta, dont la composition remonte à maintes années des dieux 189, et en comparaison de laquelle notre monde moderne ainsi que sa littérature paraissent dérisoires et triviaux ; je doute que cette philosophie ne se rapporte pas à un état antérieur de

“Yoga is evenness of mind”: detachment from the dualities of pain and pleasure, success and failure. Therefore “yoga is skill in action,” because this kind of detachment is required if one is to act in freedom, rather than merely react to events compelled by conditioning.

Dans ma vie, je me réfère souvent à la Bhagavad-Gita (qui signifie « Chant de Dieu »), qui fait partie des Veda. Elle s’appuie librement sur les Upanishads, des textes écrits entre environ 800 et 400 av. J.-C. La Bhagavad-Gita est considérée comme une sorte de manuel de vie universel et intemporel.

Many of Krishna’s words make most sense when we realize that when he speaks of himself, he is often not describing a transcendental reality so much as trying to tell Arjuna about the Self in every human being. When he says, for example, “Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results,” he means, “Arjuna, actions do not cling

As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. 38 Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.