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Day 3 of a series of scintillating talks given by Poojya Swamiji during the Bhagavad Gita Retreat which was held during USA Jnana Yajna 2025.

Date: 13 June 2025
Venue: Fairfield Inn 15011, Newport Ave, Tustin CA 92780

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In this talk, Swami emphasizes Samatva Buddhi Yoga—the yoga of even-mindedness--maintaining equanimity toward life’s two alternating experiences: sukha and duḥkha. True mastery in life lies in equalizing the responses of the mind and integrating the senses, mind, and intelligence.

Bhagavad Gita reveals that yoga is not bodily postures but inner dexterity—maintaining balance amidst success and failure, gain and loss. When the mind attains Samatva, one transcends virtue and vice. Life’s perceptions and interactions arise, subsist, and dissolve within the mind. Thus, their impacts too can be assimilated and dissolved by the mind’s innate power. The seeker needs to assimilate only the subjective responses of the mind to all situations.

Samatva can be extended to every sphere of life. True equality extends to all beings—seeing the same consciousness in a Brahmin, cow, elephant, or a dog. One who makes a place in his mind for all kinds of people—benefactors, friends, enemies, indifferent people, mediators, haters, and relatives—he excels. One whose mind is established in Samatva, the entire creation is won over by him. Having attained Samatva, one perceives the Self as abiding in all beings, and all beings as dwelling in the Self.

Swamiji says that watchword of a seeker must be samabuddhi--a practice done in the intelligence level. The benefits of the equalness are instilled into the mind and the mind becomes flexible, assimilative, and pure.

Shlokas chanted in the Satsang:
11:52 - बुद्धियुक्तो जहातीह उभे सुकृतदुष्कृते ..Bhagavad Gita 2.50
18:05 - सुखदु:खे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ ...Bhagavad Gita 2.38
19:59 - आपूर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठं समुद्रमाप: प्रविशन्ति यद्वत् ...Bhagavad Gita 2.70
31:15 - मन्निन्दया यदि जनः परितोषमेति.... Subhashitam
34:39 - सतत सुलभ दैन्ये निःसुखे जीवलोके...Subhashitam
36:30 - ददतु ददतु गालीम् गालिमन्तो..Subhashitam
38:11 - यदृच्छालाभसन्तुष्टो द्वन्द्वातीतो विमत्सर: ... Bhagavad Gita 4.22
43:37 - प्रकृते: क्रियमाणानि गुणै: कर्माणि सर्वश: ...Bhagavad Gita 3.27
47:18 - विद्याविनयसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि ...Bhagavad Gita 5.18
52:38 - अन्नमयादन्नमयमथवा चैतन्यमेवचैतन्यात्...Manishapanchakam 1
54:03 - किम् गंगाम्बुधि बिंबितेम्बरमणौ ...Manishapanchakam 2
57:14 - जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तिषु स्फुटतरा....Manishapanchakam 3
1:07:27 - इहैव तैर्जित: सर्गो येषां साम्ये स्थितं मन:... Bhagavad Gita 5.19
1:10:10 - ज्ञानविज्ञानतृप्तात्मा कूटस्थो विजितेन्द्रिय: ...Bhagavad Gita 6.8
1:15:34 - सुहृन्मित्रार्युदासीनमध्यस्थद्वेष्यबन्धुषु ...Bhagavad Gita 6.9
1:19:30 - सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि ...Bhagavad Gita 6.29

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