A Study of the Bhagavadgita - Chapter 7.7. Swami Krishnananda.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, August 8, 2021. 10:01.PM. Chapter 7:The Entry of the Absolute into the Relative - 7. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The method of meditation is very briefly discussed towards the end of the Third Chapter in two verses, but it is the essence of the whole matter: it is possible to overcome longing, desire for objects of sense, only by intense meditation through a gradational process. This is also described in detail in the Sixth Chapter. "Indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ, manasas tu parā buddhir yo buddheḥ paratas tu saḥ (Gita 3.42); evaṁ buddheḥ paraṁ buddhvā saṁstabhyātmānam ātmanā, jahi śatruṁ mahābāho kāmarūpaṁ durāsadam." (Gita 3.43). This is a brief statement of a longer, mo...