Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6

POWERFUL COGNITION

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Conquer your senses, the supreme self is already achieved

६.८

ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रियः ।
युक्त इत्युच्यते योगी समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः
॥ ६=८ ॥

jñāna-vijñāna-tṛptātmā kūṭastho
vijitendriyaḥ yukta ityucyate yogī
samaloṣṭāśma-kāñcanaḥ

A person whose mind is contented
because of spiritual knowledge, who has
subdued his senses and to whom stone
and gold are same and who is satisfied
with what he is having, is said to be
established in Self-realization and is
called an enlightened being

POWERFUL COGNITION

Living is a power. If we want to live, we must learn how to stand on our own two feet, learn how to be complete with ourselves

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam in a circle

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Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam in traditional attire framed with peacock feather

सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु ।
साधुष्वपि च पापेषु समबुद्धिर्विशिष्यते
॥ ६-९॥

suhṛn-mitrāry-udāsīna madhyastha-
dveṣya bandhuṣu sādhuṣvapi ca pāpeṣu
samabuddhir viśiṣyate

A person is considered truly advanced
when he regards honest well-wishers,
affectionate benefactors, the neutral,
mediators, the envious, friends and
enemies, the pious and the sinners all
with an equal mind

POWERFUL COGNITION

We need to we see everyone equally

INTRODUCTION

The essence of the whole Gītā: You are your own friend and you are your own enemy. If you know the technique of how to lift yourself by yourself, you will become a friend of your Self. If you let yourself down, you will become an enemy of yourself.

When we start anything new, we will always have three phases. The first is resistance. The second is avoidance. The third is acceptance. When our being resists, if we allow the resistance to grow, we are our worst enemy

If you have fallen, if you have
failed, if you have forgotten,
don't worry. Again and again,
lift yourself. Don't give up on
you. Don't feel depressed and
don't have guilt. Don't get
dejected thinking you will not
be able to do it. Don't doubt
your self. Again and again, lift
yourself.

Don't give up on you
and people! Even if
people fail a hundred
times, continue to work
with them. When you
are frustrated at other
people's failure,
understand that it is
nothing but your
frustration towards your
own failure. If we give
up on others, we have
also given up on
ourselves! So never give
up on you and people!

CONQUER YOUR SENSES, THE SELF iS ALREADY ACHIEVED

We have one thing that we can choose—and that is our inner space. Just try this tomorrow morning. Just decide whether you want to face your normal routine with bliss or with suffering, with joy or with the usual long face. You have the choice.

How can happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor be the same? When our senses do the work, we decide ‘yes’ or ‘no’ only based on our past experiences, the experiences with which we have grown. When we just try to conquer the senses, we will fail again and again. We need to learn the science of completion to conquer the senses.

We always complain about the senses. No, we are corrupting them. Just look into your life. It might be late at night, even two a.m., but we will still watch our baseball or cricket game on television. Our eyes are begging for some rest, but we continue to watch the game. We abuse our eyes, our senses because we want to enjoy ourselves. All we need to do is control the mind, not the senses.

Illustration of Lord Krishna playing the flute at night

Understand, if we suppress something, it will automatically express itself in our dreams. If we do completion with our root patterns and out of completion when we enjoy with the senses, we will never become tired. But when we suppress our senses, our being suffers in our dreams.

Completion! Again and again complete!
Dreams are nothing but the incompletions
expressing in your inner space when you
are unconscious.

dreaming and thinking is incompletions
expressing when you are conscious is
thinking. Incompletions expressing when
you are unconscious is dreaming.

ALIGN YOUR IMAGES AND GO BEYOND DUALITY

We know about ourselves only through others’ words and their opinions. Our identity is built based on others’ opinions. We understand and identify ourselves through others. If everybody says, ‘You are beautiful,’ we get that certificate. If everybody says, ‘You are intelligent,’ we get that certificate. We collect all these certificates and we build our personality with them.

Our root thought patterns is about why we get depressed, why we are in conflict, why we repeatedly fall into a powerless state. It is because our energy source is others’ certificates. We don’t have any self-respect and self- completion.

Kṛṣṇa gives us a beautiful technique to heal the problem. He gives us a method to complete with the root thought pattern and go beyond. All we have to do is understand the root thought patterns; understand where we are caught and where our incompletions lie. When our mind is under our control and complete we develop equanimity. We look at everyone the same way. When we become enlightened our being will start respecting, loving and enriching everyone automatically