Gita reflection Ch 2 verses 15 & 16

 15th February 2024

• The play of ignorance in our mind is like that of a magician on the stage - showing the unreal as real by obscuring the real from our vision
• Sri Krishna enlightens us: 'The permanent Self is never absent; the temporary self is not truly present at any time.'
• Ignorance is Self-forgetfulness - the inability to recognize one's permanent Self as oneself and that leads us to assume what is closely comprehended  as oneself such as mind, body, senses, etc.
• If you ask a year-old child, 'Who are you?', it is very likely that the child will innocently look at the mother or father. It doesn't have an answer to that question since no identification as 'I am so and so' with the body etc has been formed.
• That is not the case with us. We have so much to talk about ourselves with no awareness of the true Self which each one of us is!