The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch -18.2.

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 Chapter -18: Fix Your Mind on Me Alone-2.

In meditation we set ourselves en rapport with that upon which we are meditating.
There is a sort of parallel concourse of consciousness between ourselves and the great object of meditation.
If we are far below the level of that on which we are ideally contemplating in ourselves, there would be no proper harmony between the subject meditating and the object of meditation.
It is very clear and obvious that people are mostly incapable of raising their consciousness to the status of impersonality wholly, because of the fact that we are ‘persons’ and not ‘impersons’.

How many among us, who among mankind, can be sure of overcoming the awareness of a physical body and be certain of one’s ability to transport one’s mind to the level of the infinitude of God?
As it involves, therefore, a tremendous difficulty on the part of the minds of people who are engrossed in body consciousness, Sri Krishna says, “I prefer the devotional or the devout attitude of self-surrender to the Supreme Form of God, rather than straining oneself towards the Impersonal Being.”
Swami Krishnananda
  To be continued  ....

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