Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8 - Lesson 3 of 8

POWERFUL COGNITION

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Lead a life of higher consciousness by constantly engaging the mind in remembrance of Krishna, and one will certainly attain Krishna Consciousness

कविं पुराणमनुशासितार = मणोरणीयंसमनुस्मरेद्यः ।
सर्वस्य धातारमचिन्त्यरूप= मादित्यवर्णं तमसः परस्तात्
॥८=९॥

kaviṃ purāṇaṃ anuśāsitāramaṇoraṇī yām
sam anusmared yaḥ sarvasya dhātāram
acintya-rūpam ādityavarṇaṃ tamasaḥ
parastāt

One should meditate on the Supreme as the one who knows everything, as He is the most ancient, who is the controller, who is smaller than the smallest, who is the maintainer of everything, who is beyond all material conception, who is inconceivable, and who is always a person.

POWERFUL COGNITION

If you experience even a single glimpse of this thoughtless awareness or pure consciousness when you are alive, the same thing automatically repeats when you leave the body. You leave the body in samādhi.

४.१०

प्रयाणकाले मनसाऽचलेन भक्त्या युक्तो योगबलेन चैव ।
भ्रुवोर्मध्ये प्राणमावेश्य सम्यक् स तं परं पुरुषमुपैति दिव्यम्
॥८-१०॥

prayāṇakāle manasācalena bhaktyā yukto
yogabalena caiva
bhruvor madhye prāṇam āveśya samyak
sa taṃ paraṃ puruṣam upaiti divyam

One, who at the time of death, fixes his
mind and life air between the eyebrows
without being distracted, by the power
of yoga and in full devotion, engages
himself in dwelling on Me, He will
certainly attain Me.

POWERFUL COGNITION

If you achieve one glimpse of thoughtless awareness, you achieve whatever has to be achieved in life.

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