Stabilising the Mind in God: The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita: 2. Swami Krishnananda.
===================================================================================== Thursday 26, September 2024, 06:15. Article Scripture Stabilising the Mind in God: 2. The Twelfth Chapter of the Bhagavadgita: Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on June 26, 1983) ===================================================================================== 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 verse that comes in the Yoga Vasishtha is repeated verbatim in the Panchadasi by Sage Vidyaranya. Tat chintanam tat kathanam anyonyam tat prabodhanam, eta deka paratvam ca m vidur budhah (Panchadasi 7.106). What is brahma abhyasa? The practice of the presence of God is called brahma abhyasa. ...