INTRODUCTION
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Kṛṣṇa reveals two very important truths here in the last two verses. One is that you can never be peaceful unless you are complete, conscious. The other is that 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. It is just another trick your mind is playing on you. Your happiness is not real happiness. It is just a gap between two periods of sorrow. What you hear, what you think you hear, what you see, what you think you see, and so on, all these sense inputs are unreliable, incomplete cognitions.
Anybody who succeeded, till that success happened, he only failed! But if he had held on to his past record, success should not have happened in his life. This journey never stops all through your life unless you make a serious attempt to complete with it. Your mind, on itsown, would never want to stay in the present moment, which is the only moment of truth. Self-completion, svapūrṇatva is the only direct method to reclaim your space of completion. This is your basic right. Reclaim it!
Drop the past records. The past track never gives you the confidence, the possibility. Unless you see the possibility, life does not flow in you! Excitement does not happen in you. The past records always bring deep sorrow, because by nature, past records are death. Possibility, by nature, is Life! The past record is neither as bad as you remember, nor worthy of being remembered. Possibility is life. Life is possibility, not past record.
Kṛṣṇa says, ‘Get away from your senses; escape from their control; ground yourself in the completion of the present. Only then can you be at peace. How can there be happiness for one without peace, aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham? (2.66).
What is this present moment? What is this completion?
When we do the self-completion process, our mind and inner space becomes integrated and authentic and stops moving back and forth between the past and future, it will by itself land in the present moment. The present moment is what we are doing now. If you are reading this book, don’t half read this book and half listen to music; don’t half read this book and half talk with someone. Either be complete and focus completely on what you are reading or don’t read at all.
When you settle into the space of
completion, you are out of the clutches
of your senses and mind. You will still
see and hear, but none of what you see
and hear will divert you from what you
are integrated to doing. You will be
aware of only what you are doing in
that present moment. This is what we
call meditation.
Meditation is nothing but being
integrated completely to what you are
doing at a particular moment. When
you plan for the unimaginable, when
your nervous system is loaded with
things that you are not able to even
comprehend, the excitement that oozes
in your nervous system is bliss!
Understand, bliss does not come to
lazy bums! Bliss does not happen to
people caught in the pastrecords.
This is what Kṛṣṇa says will lead you
into peace and very soon to being
steady—prasanna-cetaso hy āśu
buddhiḥ paryasvatiṣṭhate (2.65).
When you are complete, your senses
are in your control instead of you
being under their control. You
become peaceful, you are in bliss
