The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 7.2. Swami Krishnananda

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, February 15, 2021. 08:25. AM. Chapter 7: Meditation ā A Discipline of Self-Integration-2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The process of meditation is not a struggle in the sense of a fighting with nature, or with what we call the odds of life; it is an establishment of a harmony, rather than a conflict with the powers that be, in which we are engaging ourselves. It is more an attitude of friendship by way of communion of feeling that meditation is, than an encounter with an enemy; though in the earlier stages all the opposing forces appear to be our opponents, enemies, and intruding factors. There are stages by which the senses and the mind have to be weaned from the points of distraction, and the highest method should not be applied when one is in the lower s...