Stabilising the Mind in God:4. The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita. Swami Krishnananda.

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19/12/2019.
(Spoken on June 26, 1983)
Post-4.
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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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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 abhyasa.

#The Yoga Vasishtha has a particular name for this practice. It is called brahma abhyasa, and sometimes it is also called atma abhyasa.

##This slokam that comes in the Yoga Vasishtha is repeated verbatim in the Panchadasi by Sage Vidyaranya.
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##(Panchadasi - 7.106) :

"Tat chintanam tat kathanam anyonyam tat prabodhanam,
eta deka paratvam ca brahmabhyasam vidur budhah."
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##Panchadasi explanation :

##What is brahma abhyasam : The practice of the presence of God is called brahma abhyasa.

##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.

##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 anyonyam tat prabodhanam.

##Eta deka paratvam ca : You are convinced that you have no other way.

##This is the only way, and every other way has failed. You have tried every method of saving yourself. Every other method has left you, and no hope is there from anything in this world. The whole world is cracking under your foot and there is nothing to support you.

#Your only saviour is this. This is my only support, this is my sustenance, this is my friend, this is my delight, this is my very breath.

#This conviction is eta deka paratvam.

#This is called brahma abhyasam.

"Day in and day out chat, talk, discourse, think, meditate, cry aloud: only this, only this, and nothing but this. This is a state of what is called God-intoxication, the madness of being possessed by God. Such a thing is perhaps indicated in this original admonition to us: Root your mind only in God and think nothing else".

To be continued ....

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