by Sri Bmal Mohanty
VOL No.9
 March 2001

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Slowly and steadily one starts gaining control over one’s actions. In other words it is the influence of this Supreme self that starts gaining control of our actions.

If this is done as a conscious effort, a continuous practice, it is same as doing Yoga itself. When one becomes a Yogi, one’s actions are subconsciously taken over by a superior power, a benevolent force – that super conscious being – described as Bramhan.

Our scriptures say, Yatinam Bramha bhavati sarathi.

If you are a yati (practitioner of spiritual sadhana) the Bramhan then becomes your guide and driver of all your actions.

As a result of this, the feeling becomes stronger that ‘what ever I am doing I am doing in the presence of my Lord and therefore I am really doing it for my Lord’. All actions become his actions.

From a situation that in the beginning we thought as a somewhat imaginary situation, slowly becomes a real state of mind, directly affecting our behaviour and our actions

The realisation of The Bramhan directing our lives from the throne of our chitta becomes achievable in practice.

There is a very powerful suggestion in the Bhagavad Gita itself. The Bhagavad Gita has seven hundred slokas or stanzas. Excepting a couple of descriptive fillers, each Sloka delivers a profound (both explicit and hidden) message. Each one is described as a Mahavakya or the supreme utterance. The message is delivered with a finality – spoken once as the last word of wisdom.

In more than one place in The Gita, as you must have noticed, a particular topic expounded by The Lord, has been brought again in different words simply to drive home complete understanding. They are not really repetitions, but said differently, so that it is understood clearly.


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