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Arjuna's egoism was the cause of his terrible moral confusions and misconceptions.
Egoism arises from a sense of ownership / acquisition, which in turn arises from desire: uncontrollable impatience to acquire an object appealing to the indriyas (essentially the mind that interprets as likable / dislikable using the indriyas as the faculties of perception)
A thing cannot remain itself without faithfully maintaining its own nature, and THAT NATURE, WHICH MAKES A THING WHAT IT IS is called its Dharma.
The Consciousness remaining the same, endless experiences came under it, got illumined, and died away. This Awareness by which I become conscious of things in my life – because of which I am considered as alive, without which I will have no more existence in this given embodiment - ‘That’ Spiritual Entity, Eternal, All-Pervading, Unborn, Undying, and the One Changeless Factor, is the Infinite in me. And this Atman is the Real Self.
The sense organs are the instruments through which the Consciousness beams out and in ITS awareness objects get illumined.
these organs cannot make the Consciousness an object of their apprehension.
Consciousness contains nothing other than Itself
Man awakened to the Self’s Glory is God; God forgetful of His own glory is the deluded man!
Karma when undertaken with no anxiety for the results integrates the personality.
Thy right is to work only, but never to its fruits; let the fruitof- action be not thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction.
