Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6

INTRODUCTION

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Why do we assume the body? We think
that we can experience bliss through
the body and mind; that is why we
assume the body. When we realize that
bliss cannot be experienced through the
body or mind, we know that going
beyond the body is the only way to
experience it. Then we will not assume
the body. Assuming the human body is
simply our choice.

People ask Swamiji, ‘Why do we choose
to have the human experience?’ That
we should find out for ourselves. Why
did we assume this body? Swamiji asked
the question and Swamiji got the
answer. Swamiji knows why you chose
the human experience. Ask the
question yourself and pursue it as a
quest and you will get the answer. You
will be enlightened

We claim that we want to experience the ultimate and that we want to be enlightened. If we really want to be enlightened, there is nothing that can stop us. There is no hindrance to our being enlightened except our own self. As of now, actually, Enlightenment is last on our laundry list of items that we want to do in life! When the urge becomes urgent, when the question becomes a burning quest, then we get the answer. There is no other way

In these verses, Kṛṣṇa promises a few
things. He says that whatever we have
learned in one life does not get
wasted. We do not start from ground
zero in the next birth. We start from
where we left off. Our vāsanas, our
mindset in one birth, continues into
another. He also promises that if we
keep practicing, if we keep trying, we
will be cleansed of all sins and reach
the highest state. Such a person,
Kṛṣṇa promises, will reach Him.

❖ (a few minutes pass) Om śānti, śānti, śāntihi...

❖ Relax. Slowly, very slowly, open your eyes. We may wonder how a simple technique like this one can lead us into our Self.

❖ Please understand that we always live in the head. Start living from the heart. We will then start acting from intelligence. We will start acting, not from our head but from our heart. When we start acting from the heart, we don't calculate.

❖ So try to continuously remember this heart region, anāhata cakra. Kṛṣṇa says, 'Let you be in the heart.' Look in! You will realize 'You are That.' Just look in, you will experience the eternal bliss, Nitya-ānanda. Let us pray to that Ultimate Energy, Parabrahma Kṛṣṇa to give us all the Eternal Bliss, Nityānanda.