Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, March 09,  2021. 10:123. AM. Chapter 7: Meditation – A Discipline of Self-Integration-5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spirituality is a positive art – it is not a runaway attitude of consciousness. In spiritual meditation, you are not moving away from the problems of life, you are not shirking your duties, but communing yourself with the substance and the very causative factor of every problem in life, and handling these forces as a master rather than as a slave who runs away from difficulties. A spiritual seeker is not a coward – he is a scientist in the highest sense of the term who tries to understand and control the forces of nature, rather than a person who would like to be ignorant of their existence and close their eyes to them, like an ostrich. Thus the art of spiritual living, which culminates itself in meditation, is the highe...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday,March 08,  2021. 07:20. PM. Chapter 9: The Divine Incarnation and God-oriented Activity -4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But there are other actions which appear to be non-actions while they are really actions. For instance, people are often under the impression that when they can keep quiet, doing nothing, they are in an inactive state. We have referred to this matter earlier on another occasion. There is no such thing as keeping quiet as long as we are individuals. As long as we have a feeling, a conviction that we are a body, a psychophysical entity, the universal is far away from us, and we are cut off from the atmosphere, we have a desire of some kind or other. We are human beings, and we cannot convince ourselves that we have any kind of organic connection with things outside. Under such conditions, inaction is impossible. Even when w...