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Bhagavad Gita - April 23, 2010 Chapter 6, Verses 19-22 Swami Yogatmananda Vedanta Society of Providence     Please click the 'Play' button to start. It may take a minute.   Launch in external player   To download the lecture, please right-click here and then click "Save Target As..."     VI.19: As a lamp kept in the windless place does not flicker, such is the similie thought of for the yogi whose mindis under control, and who is engaged in the concentration of the Self. VI.20: At the time when the mind restrained through the practice of Yoga gets withdrawn, and just when by seeing the Self by the self one remains contended in the Self alone. VI.21: When one experiences that absolute Bliss whoch can be intuited by he intellect and which is beyond the senses, and being established, thus this person surely does not swerve from Reality. VI.22: Obtaining which one does not think of any other acquisition to be superiro to that, and being established in which one is not perturbed even by great sorrow.   The above image is from Gita Darshan by courtesy of Sri Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad.   To Order Audio/Video CDs : bookstore@vedantaprov.org   List of Audio/Video CDs, DVDs

Summary of this lecture: In the last class, we heard that we must do everything (eat, sleep, work, rest, practice spiritual disciplines) to the measure that is constitutionally suitable for us in order to achieve our spiritual goal of God Realization. This is what a Yogi does. The mind of the Yogi is unwaveringly fixed in the Divine like a candle-flame in a quiet, windless place. Once we achieve this state, all that we seek--Peace, Happiness, Joy-- are all achieved in infinite quantity within the Self. That stops the foolish chase after the sense pleasures and mind turns inwards. It's like driving in a car and realizing you are going in the opposite direction; you have to slow down your car and turn around. This turning around is called 'uparama'. When we make this change, we experience a happiness that is not dependent upon the senses or any changing, ephemeral object of the world. The Yogi's happiness comes directly from the source of Happiness--the Self--and cannot be quantified or measured by the standard of the illusory happiness of the subject-object contact. This happiness completely fulfills all desires, and the Yogi who has attained it does not seek anything more.