Re: Who or what controls the mind and intellect, according to the Bhagavad Gita?
Namaste Snip and friends
I think till the doership is compleyely renounced there is indeed a karta - a doer.
Chapter 18
13. Learn from Me, O mighty-armed Arjuna, these five causes, as declared in the Sankhya system for the accomplishment of all actions!
14. The body, the doer (karta), the various senses, the different functions of various sorts, and the presiding Deity, also, the fifth,
15. Whatever action a man performs by his body, speech and mind, whether right or the reverse, these five are its causes
And this karta is entirely isolated from the Self, as below:
16. Now, such being the case, he who, owing to untrained understanding, looks upon his Self, which is isolated, as the agent, he of perverted intelligence, sees not.
Om Namah Shivaya
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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