Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, March 15,  2021. 10:45. AM. Chapter 7: Meditation – A Discipline of Self-Integration-6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then, the crucial point comes in – the nature of the object of meditation and the way in which you have to adjust your consciousness to that location and structure of the object of meditation. Here you are face to face with a problem. The earlier stages may look simpler – asana, pranayama and pratyahara even may be regarded in any way, the outer court of yoga. When you come to meditation proper, you are in the inner court. Here, initiation is necessary; mere book reading may not be insufficient. Whatever may be your study, however vast it be, that may not be sufficient because here you are facing a difficulty which cannot easily be explained in textbooks. You may study the biology, the anatomy of a lion, but you will not be ...

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday,March 14,  2021. 07:14. PM. Chapter 9: The Divine Incarnation and God-oriented Activity -5. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Often we make a distinction between the two, and no one can help making this distinction. We can never believe, ordinarily, that knowing is the same as acting. And so, under a misapprehension that the two are different, we take to a way of knowledge, severing ourselves from action or activity altogether; or, otherwise, we go to the other extreme and plunge into activity without proper understanding, or knowledge. Action is to be the movement of knowledge itself. Again, to bring the old analogy, the waves have to be the ocean. The knowledge of the structure of things has to be not only the root, the base of our actions, but this knowledge itself has to become a movement in the f...