Stabilising the Mind in God: The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita-2. Swami Krishnananda
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20/11/2019.
(Spoken on June 26, 1983)
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#Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chpter-12. Slokam-s 8 to 11.
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Mayya eva mana adhatsva mayi buddhim nivesaya,
nivasshiayasi mayy eva ata urdhvahm na samsayah. - Slo-8.
Aatha cittam samadhatum na saknoshi mayi sthiram,
abhyasayogena tato mam ichaptum dhananjaya. - Slo-9.
Abhyasepy asamarthosi matkarmaparamo bhava,
madartham api karmani kurvan siddhim avapsyasi.-Slo-10.
Athaitad apy asaktosi kartum madyogam asritah
sarvakarmaphalatyagam tatah kuru yatatmavan. - Slo-11.
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So the first instruction is the highest of all instructions. The most potent antidote to human affliction is prescribed in this first verse:
Root your attention in God Almighty. Here is the solution for every kind of ill. Whatever ill you can conceive of in your mind originating either from outside or from inside, knowingly or unknowingly, root your mind in God. “Think nothing else,” is something that follows automatically. When you root your mind in God, naturally you will think nothing else.
How would you do this?
It is very satisfying indeed to hear that we shall attain abundance by this practice and we shall be freed from every kind of agony, anguish and sorrow in life; indeed this is a great joy even to hear, but how are we going to achieve it?
How is this practicable for us?
Mayy eva mana adhatsva.
How would we concentrate on God?
What is the method?
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The first slokam, therefore, pitching itself on the ultimate nature of God, which is supreme absoluteness and nonrelative omnipresence, requires us to practise what the Yoga Vasishtha calls brahma abhyasam. The Yoga Vasishtha has a particular name for this practice. It is called brahma abhyasam, and sometimes it is also called atma abhyasam.
This verse that comes in the Yoga Vasishtha is repeated verbatim in the Panchadasi by Sage Vidyaranya.
"Tat chintanam tat kathanam anyonyam tat prabodhanam,
eta deka paratvam ca brahmabhyasam vidur budhah." - (Panchadasi - 7.106).
What is brahma abhyasa?
The practice of the presence of God is called brahma abhyasa.
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Tat kathanam :
If you meet anybody, speak only on this topic, and speak nothing else. Do not speak on any other topic except this.
Anyonyam tat prabodhanam :
Awaken yourselves mutually on this topic by discourse and conversation.
Ask someone, “Oh, how do you do it, my dear friend?” And he will ask you, “How do you do it?” So you will mutually benefit by classroom consultation, as it were. This is anyonyaṁ tat prabodhanam.
Tat chintanam : brooding over only that – that, and nothing else.
Day in and day out, as long as you are conscious and awake, think only that, and nothing else.
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To be continued ....
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20/11/2019.
(Spoken on June 26, 1983)
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#Srimad Bhagavad Gita : Chpter-12. Slokam-s 8 to 11.
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Mayya eva mana adhatsva mayi buddhim nivesaya,
nivasshiayasi mayy eva ata urdhvahm na samsayah. - Slo-8.
Aatha cittam samadhatum na saknoshi mayi sthiram,
abhyasayogena tato mam ichaptum dhananjaya. - Slo-9.
Abhyasepy asamarthosi matkarmaparamo bhava,
madartham api karmani kurvan siddhim avapsyasi.-Slo-10.
Athaitad apy asaktosi kartum madyogam asritah
sarvakarmaphalatyagam tatah kuru yatatmavan. - Slo-11.
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So the first instruction is the highest of all instructions. The most potent antidote to human affliction is prescribed in this first verse:
Root your attention in God Almighty. Here is the solution for every kind of ill. Whatever ill you can conceive of in your mind originating either from outside or from inside, knowingly or unknowingly, root your mind in God. “Think nothing else,” is something that follows automatically. When you root your mind in God, naturally you will think nothing else.
How would you do this?
It is very satisfying indeed to hear that we shall attain abundance by this practice and we shall be freed from every kind of agony, anguish and sorrow in life; indeed this is a great joy even to hear, but how are we going to achieve it?
How is this practicable for us?
Mayy eva mana adhatsva.
How would we concentrate on God?
What is the method?
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The first slokam, therefore, pitching itself on the ultimate nature of God, which is supreme absoluteness and nonrelative omnipresence, requires us to practise what the Yoga Vasishtha calls brahma abhyasam. The Yoga Vasishtha has a particular name for this practice. It is called brahma abhyasam, and sometimes it is also called atma abhyasam.
This verse that comes in the Yoga Vasishtha is repeated verbatim in the Panchadasi by Sage Vidyaranya.
"Tat chintanam tat kathanam anyonyam tat prabodhanam,
eta deka paratvam ca brahmabhyasam vidur budhah." - (Panchadasi - 7.106).
What is brahma abhyasa?
The practice of the presence of God is called brahma abhyasa.
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Tat kathanam :
If you meet anybody, speak only on this topic, and speak nothing else. Do not speak on any other topic except this.
Anyonyam tat prabodhanam :
Awaken yourselves mutually on this topic by discourse and conversation.
Ask someone, “Oh, how do you do it, my dear friend?” And he will ask you, “How do you do it?” So you will mutually benefit by classroom consultation, as it were. This is anyonyaṁ tat prabodhanam.
Tat chintanam : brooding over only that – that, and nothing else.
Day in and day out, as long as you are conscious and awake, think only that, and nothing else.
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To be continued ....
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