“Thus, the mystic transcendentalist, advanced in God realization, can be released from the duel-entrepot of gain and loss, which is a creation of the material world.”

Context of the Verse:

            Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6 is Dhyana Yoga, or The Yoga of Meditation. This is a verse in which Lord Krishna is giving details on how to do the disciplined practice of meditation (Yoga).

            Having explained the position, conduct and attention of the meditating Yogi (in previous verses), Krishna now elucidates the outcome of devotedly practicing this. Verse 15 tells us what happens when meditation becomes well established: peace, freedom and oneness with the Divine.

Key Teachings in This Verse:

• Regular Meditation (Yunjan Evam Sadatmanam): The Yogi should keep the mind engaged in meditation addiction, in Yogic activity.
• Mind Control (Niyata- Manasah): Contentment and liberation can only accrue to a man whose mind is disciplined and concentrated.
• Achievement of Highest Peace (Santim Nirvana-Paramam): Not just peace, but peace beyond peace, the maximum unity and freedom (Nirvana) claims to be obtained.
• Interpreting freedom in the Yoga itself: we do not “merge into the Divine” in an impersonal sense; it means resting in Krishna Himself – a personal deviation in meditative Yoga.
• Merging into the Godhead: The Yogi’s goal is to attain to that state which is in Krishna, that is, the realization of God.

Relevance to Arjuna:

            Arjuna is a Kshatriya, a warrior, who is confused about his dharma and is emotionally grief-stricken by the psychological violence that comes with killing his own people in the war. Krishna imparts the meditation method as a part of the following to Arjuna -To:

• Aid him to find peace of mind in his turbulence.
• You need a base of self-rule to be able to enact one’s will in the world.
• Prove to him that the way of meditation is not separate from duty – it culminates in a realization of God which may buttress right action.
• Emphasize the need for that inner calm and union with the Self (or Krishna) without which the thinking will not be clear or the action wise, which Arjuna does need in the field of battle.

Explanation:

            Krishna has his own set up. This is a very very important point to get.

            God, the absolute truth is manifested in three stages. That is given in Srimad Bhagavatam. The Father of same final truth, from where everything is being emanated, is held by and he Her dweller and He can create only organized destruction of the world. Who is he? The supreme truth. He’s understood in three phases. Brahm, Parmatma and Bhagavan are no different from each other. The shastras to quote the instance of the milk.

            What is milk? Milk is something white. Then from it (milk) he gets sight, he only knows it is white, if he trusts to the mere visual sensation. And if a man will be able to touch, will say that it is liquid. Milk that a man is so tasting then he will describe his tasting with milk. So, in that way, the same milk is seen in a different way, depending on which means we approach the milk. Seeing simply milk, if we drink it by means of the eyes, we know that it is white. If we are reaching for closure of the eye, we simply touch the milk. We’ll say, oh, milk is liquid and if you taste it, describe the taste of the milk. So, the milk is the same but the perception is different, and it depends on which is the sense that we are coming to line that milk with.

            But what is milk? If you say milk is just fluid, that’s not the ideal interpretation of milk. Even if you teach that milk is only white, that, too, is not perfect knowledge. Milk is a substance. In the same way, the fact, the absolute fact is a personality is a person, you see – unless it have been a way, unless there is a form, there are different gifts of tendency to eat, tendency to tell a funny story, tendency to socialize. How shall we create such attributes? The child is a person because father is person. Those characteristics are then inherited. So, there is absolutely no way the drop can be a quality which is not already there in the ocean. The entire ocean is having everything which is there in a drop, and in addition much, much more which is not there in a single drop. So, God or the creator or the source of this world will have everything and more than what we do. So that’s easy to understand. There’s something eternal that everything’s coming out from. Now that is energy, so people think that as it is energy, they pass by the Gyana Sadhana. The Supreme God is a kind of energy, but here energetic and energy are one. The same as sun and sunlight there is no difference. There can be no sunlight without sun, nor sun glob without its light. They are one and the same, one package. In that way there is no difference between God and energy, and yes there is difference. So if ultimate truth is just energy, why so many varieties? Man, woman, and we want to have a social life. So we want to eat this eating tendency, we want to eat this eating tendency, we want to eat this enjoying tendency, we want to eat this playing tendency, we want to eat this socializing tendency, how it is coming in us because somewhere present in the absolute truth.

            Through this is very dispersal understanding is very important. And then, for your information only, because people are not impersonal, they don’t know things properly. By one-sided non-impersonal understanding people have become uninterested in spiritual life. How then shall I do with spiritual perfection, it is like suicide. That you have to go and bring some energy. At least there is some pleasure here, even if there is also some misery. I do love to laugh, talk, walk with people. But no, the spiritual life is a life of personal interaction. There is also a spirit life, there is also a spirit world, just such as we are in. The civilization is different. Maybe in the jungle, civilization was different. In rich countries in amenities of life civilization language is different.

            And the same is there where the body is all spirit, where there is the personal God. And here Krishna is speaking to that the Yogi attains my place. This is the purpose of Yoga. If he is not having knowledge of the abode of Krishna, then he will again be going to any other planet, which is more comfort life. That is described in the Vedas, but because he has perfect knowledge, he does not want to go to any place which are temporary phased in this material world. He just attempts to approach Krishna abode.

            It is not fantasy. If we do not have guidance about a place, then we follow a map. We follow the books. We cannot go visit that if someone is telling us that this is a population of this place, this is the culture of that place. We read it from the books also. We learn from the Vedic literature. What is the state of the place that is entirely spirit, where God is. So, one should try plants research on that Bonafide book directly going and researching on various countries may not feasible to all.

            If we’re more advanced, we can fly in there and we can go and practically see the spiritual planet, but not everyone may be ready for that. So, whatever other normal people, the same way we can read the books and see this is the technology, they have come to this place and have been met like that. Research should invest in the authoritative book. We have to read the other Vedas in the same way. This is fantasy, mythology or actuality. And if we have a sane reading under healthy conditions, we see that it is morally, scientifically, logically true. It is written and sanctioned by human beings, who have spent their lives looking for truth, and nothing but the truth. They’d live in forest, just do research, about truth and people who are just lucky, they get realization of truth into the Guru Parampara from God Himself, that is the knowledge of the Vedas.