Stabilising the Mind in God:5.Swami Krishnananda.
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07/01/2020.
Stabilising the Mind in God :-
POST-5.
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1.
Hard is this prescription. So Bhagavan Sri Krishna, who is the spokesman of eternity speaking to all mankind, knows your difficulty.
How is this puny, finite, located mind of man to contemplate the all-pervading Absolute, though this is the only solution and there is nothing else?
Is this possible for me?
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2.
Before listening to what Arjuna has to say in this regard, the good teacher that Sri Krishna was says,
“If you cannot do this, I shall tell you another, easier method.”
How could we think of omnipresence?
We will melt away into liquid in a moment if we start thinking in this manner. We will not be there at all. We will expire like burnt camphor.
Who will tolerate this predicament?
We cannot imagine this possibility.
“All right, leave it. If you cannot do this, I shall suggest to you another way.”
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3.
Habituate yourself to a continuous practice of concentrating on something, which method is called ekatattva abhyasa in the language of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
The vacillation of the mind can be subdued by ekatattva abhyasa?. Though practically the instruction amounts to the same thing that was said earlier, there is this little distinction. It appears that in the earlier teaching we were called upon to perform the complete and utter sacrifice of our very existence in the ultimacy of God’s universality.
Well, that is all right. That is good enough. Now the second, a slightly lower step, though equally potent, is comparably easier in the sense that you are not asked to conceive of the supremacy or the universality of God at one stroke in the beginning. You choose any concept.
Says Patanjali: As you like, so you choose.
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4.
When we contemplate or even think of God in our prayers, rarely do we feel that God is omnipresence or nonrelative ultimacy. We have our own notion of God. Let each one stick to that notion only; that is quite all right.
Do you believe that God is ultimate?
Yes, no one can gainsay this great requirement. You have your own concept, notion and idea of the Creator of the universe. Adhere your mind to that notion only. We are one hundred people sitting here and we may have one hundred ideas of the Creator of the cosmos. Let each one stick to that idea only, whether or not there is concurrence of this idea.
There is no harm if your idea or notion of the Ultimate varies from others’ notions, provided that – a very important provision is to be underlined – provided that you will not allow your mind to think of any other reality even here. You are permitted to have your own notion of God. You are not forced to enter into the ultimacy of God as He is in Himself. Let there be a freedom of choice.
Choose your own notion of the ultimacy of the Creatorship of the universe. But inasmuch as you are sure that God is the Ultimate Reality and nothing else can be beyond Him, you are also to convince and persuade yourself that you are not required to think anything else.
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To be continued ....
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07/01/2020.
Stabilising the Mind in God :-
The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita.
(Spoken on June 26, 1983)POST-5.
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1.
Hard is this prescription. So Bhagavan Sri Krishna, who is the spokesman of eternity speaking to all mankind, knows your difficulty.
How is this puny, finite, located mind of man to contemplate the all-pervading Absolute, though this is the only solution and there is nothing else?
Is this possible for me?
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2.
Before listening to what Arjuna has to say in this regard, the good teacher that Sri Krishna was says,
“If you cannot do this, I shall tell you another, easier method.”
How could we think of omnipresence?
We will melt away into liquid in a moment if we start thinking in this manner. We will not be there at all. We will expire like burnt camphor.
Who will tolerate this predicament?
We cannot imagine this possibility.
“All right, leave it. If you cannot do this, I shall suggest to you another way.”
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3.
Habituate yourself to a continuous practice of concentrating on something, which method is called ekatattva abhyasa in the language of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
The vacillation of the mind can be subdued by ekatattva abhyasa?. Though practically the instruction amounts to the same thing that was said earlier, there is this little distinction. It appears that in the earlier teaching we were called upon to perform the complete and utter sacrifice of our very existence in the ultimacy of God’s universality.
Well, that is all right. That is good enough. Now the second, a slightly lower step, though equally potent, is comparably easier in the sense that you are not asked to conceive of the supremacy or the universality of God at one stroke in the beginning. You choose any concept.
Says Patanjali: As you like, so you choose.
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4.
When we contemplate or even think of God in our prayers, rarely do we feel that God is omnipresence or nonrelative ultimacy. We have our own notion of God. Let each one stick to that notion only; that is quite all right.
Do you believe that God is ultimate?
Yes, no one can gainsay this great requirement. You have your own concept, notion and idea of the Creator of the universe. Adhere your mind to that notion only. We are one hundred people sitting here and we may have one hundred ideas of the Creator of the cosmos. Let each one stick to that idea only, whether or not there is concurrence of this idea.
There is no harm if your idea or notion of the Ultimate varies from others’ notions, provided that – a very important provision is to be underlined – provided that you will not allow your mind to think of any other reality even here. You are permitted to have your own notion of God. You are not forced to enter into the ultimacy of God as He is in Himself. Let there be a freedom of choice.
Choose your own notion of the ultimacy of the Creatorship of the universe. But inasmuch as you are sure that God is the Ultimate Reality and nothing else can be beyond Him, you are also to convince and persuade yourself that you are not required to think anything else.
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To be continued ....
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