44. Realized One Sees the Supreme Everywhere

Kṛṣṇa says that the realized person, yoga-yuktātmā (6.29), sees the Supreme in everyone and everything. He sees everything situated in the Supreme and all beings situated in the Supreme. The Yogi is in touch with the higher Self and is in bliss.

When we experience the Truth, we see everything in ourselves and ourselves in everything. The moment we understand that we are deeply, totally connected to the whole Universe, we really start living in the space of completion, Living Advaita.

Be In the Self And See The Supreme (6.30-6.35)

Here, Kṛṣṇa gives a promise. He says that for anyone who sees Him in everything and who sees everything in Him, He is always available. Neither Kṛṣṇa is lost to him nor he is ever lost to Kṛṣṇa (6.30) . See the Divine in everything and automatically, you will relax. You will no longer fight because you will see everything around you as Divine, including yourself. What is there to fight with then? You will simply relax.

The root of God is love. The root of God lies in seeing Him in everything. Have the courage to go deep inside and love. We will start feeling the common thread of Existence in all that we see.

Detachment, The Path to Self-realization

Kṛṣṇa further explains the state of an enlightened person, who is one with the Divine Consciousness. Arjuna introduces the word 'difficult or su-duṣkaram'. He says that the mind is wavering and difficult to control like the wind, vāyor iva sa su-duṣkaram (6.34). Arjuna is actually asking about problems of future generations also.

Here, Kṛṣṇa has to answer from the same plane that Arjuna asks the question. Just as one thorn is used to remove another thorn, Kṛṣṇa has to give Arjuna a technique—practice and detachment; to support the idea that it is difficult to control the mind. Masters give meditation techniques so that we try them and ultimately realize that meditation, dhyāna is our natural state, and there is nothing to be achieved.

Understand the word 'detachment'. Whether we say ego or mind, it is just the collection of thoughts. In the present, we cannot have thoughts because the very moment we think, the present has slipped into the past. Either we fear losing the carefully constructed inner image in our own eyes or we are greedy to develop a better outer image in the eyes of society.

Listen. Any identity or image that we create about ourselves that is less than the idea of our being God, is a false identity. If we have the courage to detach ourselves from the certificates of society and drop these images, then we can embrace the Divine.

Detachment is the direct technique that Kṛṣṇa is giving here. Detachment at the root level will lead to detachment from everything else. Detachment from the ego or the images will lead to detachment from desires. This is detachment from the past and future. This is being 'Unclutched'.