The last paragraph, I nearly spat out my tea 🤣 I hadn’t heard the term lokasaṃgraha but I always circle the sections about these types of duties, as it’s close to how my small island community used to operate in. Less so of late.
Hehe - I can certainly think of a few psycho-yogis... 🙃
With lokasaṃgraha, it's complicated - the way of holding the world together that the Gītā supports includes social hierarchy. And in some ways the priests (whose ritual actions are also endorsed, as long as they're performed with the right understanding) are traditional preservers of cosmic order by making offerings to gods (as discussed at the start of that section of chapter 3...)
Even so, it still hangs together as the basic idea that whatever one does should serve the bigger picture in some form, as opposed to oneself (even if the framers of the idea seem to get it both ways...)
The last paragraph, I nearly spat out my tea 🤣 I hadn’t heard the term lokasaṃgraha but I always circle the sections about these types of duties, as it’s close to how my small island community used to operate in. Less so of late.
Hehe - I can certainly think of a few psycho-yogis... 🙃
With lokasaṃgraha, it's complicated - the way of holding the world together that the Gītā supports includes social hierarchy. And in some ways the priests (whose ritual actions are also endorsed, as long as they're performed with the right understanding) are traditional preservers of cosmic order by making offerings to gods (as discussed at the start of that section of chapter 3...)
Even so, it still hangs together as the basic idea that whatever one does should serve the bigger picture in some form, as opposed to oneself (even if the framers of the idea seem to get it both ways...)
Always the way.