83. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 6 Verse 24-25 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
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| 0:00.0 | So, |
| 0:02.0 | Sohya |
| 0:04.0 | Soam-devah |
| 0:06.0 | Kamsachanurram-Ram |
| 0:08.0 | Devaki |
| 0:11.0 | Paramanandam |
| 0:13.0 | Krishna |
| 0:14.0 | Vande Jagad Guru |
| 0:16.0 | So in the Bhagavad Gita we are studying chapter 6. This chapter is on meditation. We were on |
| 0:28.2 | verse number 23. And in the last few verses, Sri Krishna has given us certain valuable insights. |
| 0:40.1 | These are profound, each of them are profound insights into Vedantanth and into Vedantic meditation. |
| 0:46.5 | What are these? I will quickly recapitulate. It will set the stage for today's class. |
| 0:52.8 | So verse number 20. What are these insights which Krishna just, he just told us. |
| 1:02.7 | In verse number 20, Sri Krishna said, Yattra uparamata, Chittam, niruddham yoga seva. So one of the characteristics of Vedantic meditation is Chittata Nirodha, it is the cessation of mental activity or the cessation of the modifications of the mind. |
| 1:24.6 | So this is classic Patanjali yoga. In Patanjali yoga, the practice is to is |
| 1:33.1 | yoga's chittavrithi nirodhha. The mind is constantly being transformed into various modifications. |
| 1:40.3 | Ripples are coming up on the surface of the lake of the mind. So to calm it down, to make it one pointed, not to put it to sleep, there's a difference |
| 1:50.0 | between going to sleep and becoming one pointed. |
| 1:53.0 | So to make it one pointed, not to make it continuously transform into various rittis or modifications. |
| 2:00.0 | One pointed in what? To make it one pointed |
| 2:03.7 | in the self, in the Atman. I am such a anandah. This should be the focus. In a more broader |
| 2:10.9 | sense, it could be also the devotional meditation that many of us practice where we have an |
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