The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita :13-4.

Chapter 13: Centring the Mind in the Heart-4.


We have to apply an inward technique of driving the mind inwardly to the heart, which is not necessarily the physical heart, but a state of feeling which is inseparable from the location of what we call the heart centre.

We have a subtle body, inward to the physical body, and a psychic heart.



Though it is not identical with the physical heart, it can be regarded as an inwardised counterpart of the physical heart.

So the yoga practice mentioned here is not a physical activity.

It is an effort of consciousness, whereby the whole of the arena of the senses and of the mind is restrained by a superior consciousness which centres itself in its own self—sarva-dvarani samyamya mano hrdi-nirudhya ca, murdhny adhayatmanah pranam asthito yoga-dharanam.



There is another instruction which makes out that the pranas should not be allowed to move in the way in which they are moving at present.

There should be an automatic restraint exerted upon their activities by an act of the concentration of the mind.

The technique especially mentioned here is the concentration on the centre between the eyebrows, the bhrumadhya, as it is called.


Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ..