Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5

POWERFUL COGNITION

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Have the courage to live life with intelligence, with consciousness and completion, with spontaneity. Just this small shift in your space can do wonders for you; every moment will then be a celebration!

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नैव किञ्चित्करोमीति युक्तो मन्येत तत्त्ववित् ।
पश्यञ्शृण्वन्स्पृशञ्जिघ्रन्नश्नन्गच्छन्स्वपञ्श्वसन्
॥५-८॥

naiva kiñcitkaromīti yukto manyeta
tattvavit paśyan śṛṇvan spṛśañ jighrann
aśnan gacchan svapañ śvasan

One who knows the truth, though engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, going, dreaming, and breathing, always knows within himself that he never does anything.

POWERFUL COGNITION

When we are so involved in the action, when we are completely relaxed, we are overflowing with compassion and love, and we just do out of the blissful energy in us

5.9

प्रलपन्विसृजन्गृह्णन्नुन्मिषन्निमिषन्नपि ।
इन्द्रियाणीन्द्रियार्थेषु वर्तन्त इति धारयन्
॥५-९॥

pralapan visṛjan gṛhṇann
unmiṣannimiṣannapi
indriyāṇīndriyārtheṣu vartanta
iti dhārayan

'I never do anything at all.' While talking, letting go, receiving, opening, closing, he considers that the senses are engaged with their sense objects.

POWERFUL COGNITION

Understand that the senses, body and mind are not us. We are something much beyond these.

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