Rishimukh – July 2019

one who is not centred, even his feelings are
dead. His feelings are not clear, he doesn’t
know whether he is feeling love or hatred or
fear or anxiety. He does not know what is
happening, he’s in complete confusion.

na cabhavayatah santir
asantasya kutah sukham (2.66)
How can there be happiness when the
feelings and intellect are muddled up? So,
get centered. Wake up, now! Get centred.
That is samadhi that is enlightenment. It
happens when you are in equanimity.

Now Arjuna asked Krishna,
sthita-prajnas tadocyate (2.55)
What are the signs of such a centred, stable
person? Then Krishna goes on to explain
what Samadhi is:

prajahati yada kaman
sarvan partha mano-gatan
atmany evatmana tustah

sthita-prajnas tadocyate (2.55)

The one who has overcome all desires,

prajahati yada (2.55)

One who just drops all desires,

sarvan partha mano-gatan (2.55)

It’s natural for the mind to harbour desires.

Desires don’t take permission to come in;

they just come and stay. When they come

and stay, they create trouble for you. Even

as they drop in, you can wave them off.

If desires don’t come at all, there is nothing

for you to get rid of. You can see them off.

In this verse, Krishna clearly said how to say

goodbye to the desires which keep arising

in your mind. They have to come. So, they

come and you can wave ‘goodbye’ to them.

One who is satisfied, content with oneself,

is centred, is enlightened. One who is not

hanging on to desires and crying over them,

one who just takes them as they come

It’s natural for the mind

to harbour desires.

Desires don’t take

permission to come

in; they just come and

stay. When they come

and stay, they create

trouble for you. Even

as they drop in, you

can wave them off.