The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita :13-14.

Chapter 13: Centring the Mind in the Heart-14.


This one thought is the most difficult thing for many of us, because we have never known what this one thought could be.

The difficulty arises because the soul does not ask for God.

The reason may be asking, in its logical manner, but the soul is beclouded by the dark longings of the senses which, when they are not fulfilled, remain like a cloud covering the light of the Atman.

We cannot concentrate on one thing, because we do not want that thing, really speaking.

Our asking for God is not an asking by the mouth—a prayer that is uttered by the chanting of a song, or a linguistic prayer. It is a surging of our feelings and an impossibility to exist without God.

Great saints and sages have passed through this crucial hour and difficult moment when they began to feel that even death is better than the loss of God’s consciousness, because the soul writhes and wriggles to catch That, without which it cannot even breathe.

For us who have not been accustomed to this whole-souled devotion, the practice of yoga remains a kind of alien instruction.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  .....