The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : Ch -18.5.

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Chapter -18: Fix Your Mind on Me Alone-5.

Our personality—the ego, the bodily consciousness—are maintained intact on account of diversity of attention.

Just as a cloth is constituted of threads which are the warp and woof thereof, the mind is constituted, as it were, in the form of a fabric made up of the warp and woof of thoughts of likes and dislikes, loves and hatreds, etc.

These are nothing but an expression of the mind’s attachments and aversions to the diversity of objects.

The attention of the mind on one particular concept, internally or externally, is the opposite of the usual function of the mind.

Hence, irrespective of the particular character of the object of meditation—form or impersonal, whatever it is—the transformation that takes place within us is common.

Whether we contemplate on a Supreme Form or we contemplate on the Formless Infinitude of Being, the transformation that takes place within the mind is similar.

It is an attention which is whole-souled and freed from all distraction and diversity. So Bhagavan Sri Krishna points out that the same goal is attained by those who strain themselves towards the impersonal Absolute by meditation thereon, and by those who devote themselves by surrender to the Supreme Form of God.
Swami Krishnananda
  To be continued  ....

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