A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 51 - Swami Krishnananda.
===================================================================================== Monday 23, September 2024, 07:20. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 9: The Yoga of Meditation - 1. Swami Krishnananda Post-51. ===================================================================================== The Yoga of meditation is the subject of the Sixth Chapter of the Gita. At the very beginning, the Lord tells us that the art of Yoga is a system of raising oneself by oneself. In meditation you qualitatively improve yourself and do not merely carry on a quantitative process for a long time. Many days, several months, are occupied with the act of meditation, but it is not just that you have been doing something for a long time. Also you have improved yourself; you have become a better person through meditation. The betterment is the qualitative aspect of it. We have a Self; everybody has a Self, usually called the Atman. “My self has been engaged in the work of meditation.” This is what yo...