10. Be Steady in Wisdom of Completion (2.60-2.67)

Kṛṣṇa continues to explain how difficult it is to control the turbulent senses. The only way is to integrate and fix one's mind on Him. The mind, thoughts cannot be stopped as long as the body exists. You can bring integrity to your thinking completing with your root patterns. Once the mind discovers the bliss of this completion, it will never want to stray again.

Kṛṣṇa says that from attachment springs desire, from desire arises anger, delusion; from delusion comes loss of memory, discrimination, which then leads to one's destruction. The only way to stop this, the Lord says, is to control one's senses, complete with oneself and surrender to Him, the Universal energy, and achieve everlasting peace.

Kṛṣṇa reveals two very important truths in the last two verses. One, you can never be peaceful unless you are complete. The other, you cannot be complete if you are led by your senses. Therefore, as long as your senses lead you into what you think is a pleasurable journey; you cannot really be happy or peaceful. Kṛṣṇa says, 'Get away from your senses; ground yourself in the completion. How can there be happiness for one without peace, aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham? (2.66).'

Wake Up (2.68-2.72)

Kṛṣṇa clarifies how to reach liberation, oneness with Brahman, one's true and natural awakened state. We are truly awake, when we are in the space of completion. A person in such a space of completion is whom Kṛṣṇa calls a 'Muni,' a realized being living in the present. Such a person is always awake when other's are asleep and is in sleep when others are awake. For such a Muni, Advaita, the space of oneness with Brahman, becomes a living reality.

Listen! Completion can make you experience Advaita (non-duality), the ultimate space of Consciousness, immediately. Then, true surrender to the Universe and identification with one's true nature happens. You then become God!

Kṛṣṇa concludes by saying that a person steeped in yoga is complete in reality and is in oneness with Brahman, eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha. This person is liberated even if he were to reach that state at the end of his life, brahma-nirvānaṁ ṛcchati (2.72).

Listen to the Truth. The science of completion is the essence of Sāṅkhya Yoga. Completion makes you experience the Sāṅkhya of life. In this second chapter of Gītā on Sāṅkhya Yogaḥ or Transcendental Knowledge of Completion, Śrī Kṛṣṇa who is the space of completion Himself, sets Arjuna on the path of completion. May all of you travel that path too!

Let us pray to the ultimate Existence, Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa, to give us all the experience of eternal bliss, Nityānanda. Thank you!