Gita: The Song of Life – 6

Sri Krishna tells Arjuna to master the mind by dhyana (contemplation or intense concentration) and derive jnana (wisdom and understanding) and bhakti (devotion, adoration and emotional yearning). In chapter nine He tells us that everything is divine.  Krishna reveals that He pervades the entire universe not in form but beyond the form—He is formless. He is rooted in all the beings and is the essence of the atom, minerals, or any other matter—living or non-living. He says that He is Sat-Chit-Ananda (being, awareness, bliss). 

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Arjuna:

“Krishna!
The mind, did You say?—
A steady flame?
No spurt, no quiver?

No splatter?
But how,
Dear Lord?
It is very hard.

It is ever on the move!
No halt for the flit.
Can wind be rolled and packed?
Can water be sliced and hacked?”

Sri Krishna:

“I do not impose an impossible task;
By daily practice,
You can succeed.
Lessen your wants—the mind gets weak.

It cannot be your master, then.
You have the power—the mind is yours;
It must obey,
Be put down by you, by dhyana.

Derive jnana,
Duty, devotion, discipline;
They reveal you as I—
And I as all!”

Arjuna:

“Stay, stay, stay, stay…
You may be all—
But,
How can I be You?”

Sri Krishna:

“There is nothing
Other than Me.
I am the least
And the largest.

The food is ‘I’;
The fire is ‘I’;
The cook, the plate, the eater—is ‘I’.
The hunger is Mine; the relief is Mine.

The work you do with added strength—is Mine
The fruit of work—is Mine, not yours.
I am the One and only—no second, anywhere.
I willed;

Let Me be many!
And I became
Everything you see and hear…
Smell and touch and taste—is ‘I’.

My thought, My word, My deed,
I am the goal, the guardian,
God.

The source, the flow, the sea,
The seed, the tree, the fruit.
Only fools will say I am just a man—
For they see Me, in this human form.

I am the good and bad, the joy and pain,
The sun, the earth, the sky and outer space;
Your Atma—a spark; your body—a speck;
From Me they arose; in Me they merge!

Man wants to move from darkness
Into the light, to know things clearer,
To know his ‘self’—
And nature and God.

For the Atma is the chit; it is always aware;
Man craves for lasting joy, joy that does not debase or cloy;
For the Atma is the anand, that is always full and free;
I Myself, am ‘Sat-Chit-Ananda’.”

(  Intro  |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  )