Stabilising the Mind in God: The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita: 1. Swami Krishnananda

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Friday 20, September 2024, 06:15.
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Stabilising the Mind in God: 1.
The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita: 
Swami Krishnananda
(Spoken on June 26, 1983)

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Slogas - (BG Chapter-12. Slogas 8 to 11): 

8

mayy eva mana adhatsva mayi buddhim nivesaya,

nivasisyasi mayy eva ata urdhvam na samsayah.

9

atha cittam samadhatum na saknosi mayi sthiram,

abhyasayogena tato mam ichaptum dhananjaya.

10

abhyasepy asamarthosi matkarmaparamo bhava,

madartham api karmani kurvan siddhim avapsyasi.

11

athaitad apy asaktosi kartum madyogam asritah,

sarvakarmaphalatyagam tatah kuru yatatmavan. 

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In these four slogas of the Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita we have the well-known fourfold method of stabilising consciousness expounded in the language of tradition. Finally, when all things are said and done, the mind is not going to rest unless it is stabilised in God. There is, in the end, no other solution. That is the supreme court of appeal to the mind of redress from sorrows.


Mayy eva mana adhatsva. In this little assurance and mandate, or ordinance, the final solution to all problems is indicated. 

Mayy eva mana adhatsva: Fix your attention on God. 

Mayi buddhim nivesaya: Let your understanding be fixed on that Ultimate Being. 

Nivasiayasi mayy eva: Then you shall abide in God. 

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So the first instruction is the highest of all instructions. The most potent antidote to human affliction is prescribed in this first slogam: Root your attention in God Almighty. Here is the solution for every kind of ill. Whatever ill you can conceive of in your mind originating either from outside or from inside, knowingly or unknowingly, root your mind in God. “Think nothing else,” is something that follows automatically. When you root your mind in God, naturally you will think nothing else.

How would you do this? It is very satisfying indeed to hear that we shall attain abundance by this practice and we shall be freed from every kind of agony, anguish and sorrow in life; indeed this is a great joy even to hear, but how are we going to achieve it? How is this practicable for us? Mayy eva mana adhatsva. How would we concentrate on God? What is the method?


The first sloka, therefore, pitching itself on the ultimate nature of God, which is supreme absoluteness and nonrelative omnipresence, requires us to practise what the Yoga Vasishtha calls brahma abhyasa. The Yoga Vasishtha has a particular name for this practice. It is called brahma abhyasa, and sometimes it is also called atma abhyasa. 

This slogam that comes in the Yoga Vasishtha is repeated verbatim in the Panchadasi by Sage Vidyaranya. 

What is brahma abhyasa? The practice of the presence of God is called brahma abhyasa. Tat chintanaṁ: brooding over only that – that, and nothing else. Day in and day out, as long as you are conscious and awake, think only that, and nothing else.

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Continued

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