A Study of the Bhagavadgita : 58 - Swami Krishnananda.
==================================================================================== Wednesday 27, November 2024, 06:10. A Study of the Bhagavadgita: Chapter 9: The Yoga of Meditation - 8. Swami Krishnananda Post-58. =================================================================================== In the earlier stages, it is very hard to even carry on this concept of concentration. Have a concrete picture of God before you. There are people who keep a picture of Lord Krishna, Devi or Durga, Narayana, Vishnu, or Siva. There are people who meditate on the Cosmic Being as represented in these forms because there is no way to adjust the mind to a total abstraction in the beginning itself. Hence, there is a portrait of this Great Master. Here is the Great Being portrayed in a particular form as an incarnation at least, though not in that Absolute form. That incarnation is the pathway for you to enter into that which is above the incarnation. You will find it difficult even to ...