The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 7.3. Swami Krishnananda
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, February 23, 2021. 10:14. AM. Chapter 7: Meditation – A Discipline of Self-Integration-3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But these are minor things compared to the more powerful ones – namely, the elemental forces, which cannot easily be roused by a little of meditation. A huge lion, very strong and confident of his strength, will not wake up even if we pelt a stone at it. Only a little puppy will wake up; it will bark at us even if we look at it. But a mighty lion or even an elephant, which knows its own strength, will not in any way be affected by our gazing at it or even with our interfering with it in a mild manner. So our little meditations may not even be felt by this mighty lion of the physical universe. It may be like scratching a rock with a little ne...