Oh, Vasudeva,

Suttam Devam, Kamshachanurramadanam,

Devaki Paramanandam, Krishna, Vande Jagad Guru.

We were on 6th chapter and the 25th verse. That's what we were doing last time.

The context is meditation and here, Sri Krishna, after having given us the instructions on meditation, how to say it, how to withdraw the mind, how to focus, all of that.

Now is giving us some advanced instructions in meditation, the culmination of meditation into samadhi.

How does that happen? So very important verses. verses the 25th verse we were doing it last time shane shaneh Rupar amed buddhyhriti grhitaaa atmasanstam manh Kritva nak injitapi chintay

I'll make some more remarks about it and then go ahead. Go ahead. So here, one point he makes is,

withdraw the mind from its external engagement in stages, slowly, methodically. Shanai

means slowly, slowly, methodically in stages.

What is this slow methodical in stages?

He says buddha, my knowledge.

And this is just, this word is like a placeholder.

It indicates the Vedantic training that we have all undergone.

We have all studied this.

Basically what it means is the mind is continuously flowing outwards.

That is the fundamental problem in meditation, especially in realizing that I am the

witness consciousness because the mind is continuously engaged with the world outside.

The Upanishad also says this.

Paran-chikhani Vyatrinat Swayamhut, Tasmat, Paran-Pashyat, Nantaratman.

Our senses are turned outwards by design.

And because of that, we are engaged with the external world.

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