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Discussing shloka 6.32 of Bhagavad Gita, Swamiji speaks about the attitude and insight of a Yogi, a knower of Truth, who lives and interacts in the world. He understands that the essence of everything is the Self. He has a firm conviction that both sukha and duhkha subsist in the Self alone, the content in both is the same inner Self. Having an equal attitude to Sukha and duhkha, he becomes master of the world.

A Knower has an expansive spiritual vision, and insight. Neither does he invite misery, nor does he desire happiness. He is neither delighted by positive outcome of actions, nor is he tormented by challenging situations. He accepts and assimilates all impacts and does whatever external situations demand of him.

Scriptures emphasize that meditation or absorption is not sufficient to know the Self. The Self is extremely subtle and all-pervading. To understand it, great subtlety is required. True Knowledge is the understanding of the ‘I’, by Vichara Sadhana done by the intelligence. It is knowing: “I am the Self, which is unaffected, birthless, blissful, beyond sukha-duhkha, all-pervading, beyond the mind and mental impacts.”

Bhagavad Gita says that spirituality is not being inactive in meditation. It is an interactional sublimation and expansion. Sublimating all Raga-dvesha (attractions and repulsions), the Yogi lives and interacts with persons, places, and events and attains placidity of the mind. His mind becomes equal to sukha and Duhkha. Brahman is Sama (an equal presence in everything). So, when the Yogi’s mind is established in Saamya, his mind is really established in the Self.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
5:55 - आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति…. Bhagavad Gita 6.32
25:00 - मुदितेा भव हर्षेषु दुःखेषु भव… Yogavasishta Nirvana Prakarana Uttarardha 29 Sarga
27:28 - नेापेक्षते दुःखदशां न सुखाशामपेक्षते… Yogavasishta upaśama prakarana
31:18 - आत्मतत्त्वं न जानाति सुप्तौ… पञ्चदशी 7.186 Pañcadaśī 7.186
39:26 - स्फटिकः प्रतिबिंबेन यथा नायाति… Annapoornopanishad 17
42:49 - वक्ष्यामि लक्षणं किं ते स्वभावतविलक्षणः… Shanti Gita
44:55 - लेाकेश चैतन्यमयादिदेव श्रीकान्त विष्णेा..
52:37 - कामक्रोधवियुक्तानां यतीनां… Bhagavad Gita 5.26
54:54 - रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन्… Bhagavad Gita 2.64
57:54 - प्रसादे सर्वदु:खानां हानिरस्योपजायते… Bhagavad Gita 2.65
59:01 - इहैव तैर्जित: सर्गो येषां साम्ये… Bhagavad Gita 5.19
1:01:52 - चिदेव देहस्तु चिदेव लोका…. Svātmaprakāśikā 19
1:06:23 - ब्रह्मैवेदममृतं पुरस्ताद्‌ ब्रह्म पश्चाद्‌… Mundakopanishad 2.2.11

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