The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita :13-3.




Chapter 13: Centring the Mind in the Heart-3.

The centring of the mind in the heart is an art by itself.

It is to locate the mind in its own centre, where its own roots are to be found.

We hear in the studies of psychology, for instance, that there are layers of mind beneath the conscious level, and the conscious operations are mostly a surface activity of our consciousness.

There are deeper layers which are buried beneath the conscious activities, and they are the impulsions which propel the mind to approve the activities of the senses.

The centring of the mind in the heart is, in a way, the directing of the mind to pure subjectivity of feeling.

The heart is the centre of all feelings which are the immediate expressions of our true being.

Our essential nature reveals itself in the psychic expressions which we know as feelings.

They are very powerful—everything is controlled by feeling, finally.

The mind has to be centred in the root of feeling, the very base of all emotions and sentiments, and this has to be done by an effort of mind itself.

Usually, whenever we are wakeful and conscious of external objects, we think through the brain.


Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ..



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