THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER NUMBER 06, DHYANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF MEDITATION, VERSE NUMBER 28

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 06

DHYANA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF MEDITATION:

VERSE NUMBER 28

Text in Transliteration:

Yunjann evam sadaa ‘tmaanam yogee vigata kalmashah

Sukhena brahma samsparsam atyantam sukham asnute

Text in English:

Constantly engaging the mind this way, the yogi who has put away sin, attains with ease the infinite bliss of contact with Brahman.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:

Mythology has it that there is such a thing as the philosopher’s stone, contact with which converts base metal into gold. But this is an allegorical statement. Brahman is the real philosopher’s stone. It is not easily accessible to all; but whosoever gets at It becomes transformed. Ordinary souls who are base become adorable ones after their contact with Brahman. They become heirs to infinite bliss.

SRI RAMAKRISHNA AS QUOTED BY SWAMI SIDBHAVANANDA:

An immersed vessel is permeated by water inside as well as outside. The soul immersed in Iswara cognizes Pure Consciousness everywhere.

COMMENTARY BY DR.RADHAKRISHNAN:

brahmasamsparsam: contact with the Eternal. God is no more a mere rumour, a vague aspiration, but a vivid reality with which we are in actual contact. Religion is not a matter of dialectic but a fact of experience. Reason may step in and offer a logical explanation of the fact but the reasoning becomes irrelevant, if it is not based of the solid foundation of fact.

Besides, these facts of religious experience are universal, in space and in time. They are found in different parts of the world and different periods of its history, attesting to the persistent unity and aspiration of the human spirit. The illuminations of the Hindu and the Buddhist seers, of Socrates and Plato, of Philo and Plotinus, of Chritian and Muslim Mysteries, belong to the same family, though the theological attempts to account for them feflect the temperaments of the race and the epoch.

In the following verses the teacher describes the marks of the ideal yogin. His thought is subdued, his desire is cast off and he contemplates only the Self and is cut off from contact with pain and is at one with the Supreme Reality.

COMMENTARY BY SWAMI SIVANANDA:

By Yogic practices such is the withdrawal of the senses, concentration and meditation he loses contact with the objects of the senses and comes into contact with Brahman or the immortal self within and thus enjoys the infinite Bliss of Brahman.

Sensual pleasures are transitory or fleeting but the bliss of Brahman is uninterrupted, undecaying and everlasting. That is the reason why one should attempt to realise the Self within.

The Yogi removes the obstacles that stand in the way of obtaining union with the Lord and thus always keeps the mind steady in the Self.

Comment by the blogger:

The Bliss of Brahman is as real as the sorrow of this world.

Dr.S. Radhakrishnan says God is not a vague notion.

Indeed God is the discovery by the Vedopanishadic Seers, for the Hindus, but not an invention. Only those who say there is no God are great inventors. But the beauty of the Creator’s Creations is that He has left both men, the devout and the naysayers, something for arguing in this regard. The naysayers can ask why Nirbhaya was killed in that horrendous manner.

God did not contemplate the world as a faultless and full phenomenon.

This world is incomplete and full of justice and injustice. That is why a youth starts to sneer at God and such notions, when he becomes mature he finds his God. Some people feel a Phenomenal Power beyond the ken of day-to-day ordinary men but are unable to acknowledge publicly for the fashion is denying God and assume a superior pose and posturing.

The Vedopanishadic Saints closed the eyes and with it other four senses and looked inward with all connections to this incomplete world severed, and then they found what is in the world exists in full inside of themselves. They also found the whole world was going around according and subjecting to a rhythm and the Veda Seers called this as rta (a confirmation to a set law and central rhythm as the focal point). They also heard the pranavic sound OM that overseeing everything here. They found every human being has God inside of him and only when he completely realizes this by performing yoga as described in this discourse so far can become attuned with the Universal Soul.