The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita : 7.4 - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== Wednesday, 28 Jun, 2023. 06:15. Chapter 7: Meditation – A Discipline of Self-Integration - 4. ========================================================================= Now, a philosophical analysis has to help you here in understanding how desires arise, why they are there, and what are the means and methods you have to adopt in checking them, rather, sublimating them, and transmuting them into a friendly power rather than a disturbing, annoying, agonising distraction. That which is an impediment to you psychologically, may become your friend. An energy that is moving outwardly in the direction of a distracting sense-object may get transmuted into your own mental force or consciousness force, and when this attunement takes place, your energy gets re-doubled. Here we have explained, perhaps, the sum and substance of what pratyahara means – the coming together of the energy of the senses with the concentrating activ...