What Is Man According to
the Bhagavad Gita
Lecture by Dr.Vladimir Antonov
Translated by Dr.Mikhail Nikolenko
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… Man is not a body. The body is just a
temporary material container of man. Man is a consciousness (soul), a
self-aware energy.
The size of the lump of the consciousness
of different people may differ significantly: from tiny “rudimentary” — to
cosmic sizes. It depends on two factors: the psychogenetic age (i.e. the age
of the soul) and the intensity of efforts made on the
spiritual Path.
Krishna said about the correspondence between man and man’s
body the following:
2:18. Only the body of an embodied soul is perishable, but
the soul itself is eternal and indestructible…
2:22. As one throws off worn-out clothes and puts on others
that are new — so a soul throws off worn-out bodies and enters new ones...
Duration: 18 min.
This is an excerpt from the film
Yoga of Krishna
(one can download it for free or buy on DVD).
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