The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 7.1. Swami Krishnananda
---------------------------------------------------------- Monday, February 08, 2021. 07:58. AM. Chapter 7: Meditation – A Discipline of Self-Integration-1. -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The discipline of yoga culminates in meditation, dhyana, which is the subject of the sixth chapter of the Bhagavadgita. The art of yoga is principally the process of self-integration by degrees through the levels of the constitution of one's personality, such that when we reach the point of meditation proper there is a total concentration of the whole of one's being in the direction of the whole of that which one aspires for through this discipline we call 'yoga'. Last time we noted that essentially this is a technique of communing the lower self with the higher self, and I endeavoured to briefly mention the characteristics of the higher self...