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Ma Gurupriya ji's session one, during the Bhagavad Gita Retreat conducted in Irvine, California during the USA Jnana Yajna 2024.

Location: Residence Inn Marriott Tustin Orange County, 15181 Newport Ave, Tustin, CA 92780
Date: 20 June 2024

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In this talk based on Bhagavad Gita, Ma speaks about the Sadhana of a spiritual seeker. What should be the attitude of a seeker while listening to the words of wisdom? Ma says that listening (Shravana) will be perfect when one simultaneously reflects over what is imparted. The seeker must hear with full Shraddha (attention) and complete humility. He must also cultivate qualities that are conducive to the retention of knowledge.

Bhagavad Gita speaks about how a seeker can remain peaceful and unaffected in and through all actions and interactions. It says that just as the ocean accepts all the rivers flowing into it, remaining unaffected, a seeker must accept all situations without getting affected. Such a one will have peace, not ones who are going after sensory pleasures. Leaving all desires, when one lives and moves free of all clinging, desires, possessiveness and ego, he attains peace. When one interacts with world objects without Raga-dvesha, with sensory and mental restraint, remaining connected to the Self, he attains placidity.

In the question-answer session towards the end, Ma exhorts the listeners to seek fulfillment in life by loving everybody and becoming expansive. Cultivating good and noble qualities, the mind must be made pure and inclusive. By introspection, the ephemerality of the worldly pleasures must be understood. A seeker must prepare his mind to accept small things and situations. When the mind is thus prepared, he will be able to sail over even big losses with ease.