In enumerating the three aforesaid qualities, psychologically speaking, Krishna has expounded an exhaustive theory of self-development and inner growth. There is an intimate relationship between desire, fear and anger. Desire is that pattern of thought in which the mind runs constantly towards a given object with an anxious expectation of procuring and possessing it. Where there is desire, there we come to experience fear. And it is very well known that when we desire a thing so much as to live ever in the fear of losing it, maddening anger can exhibit itself at any moment against any threat of an obstacle between ourselves and the object-of-desire. When these three emotions are controlled, we have controlled almost all the mad impulses of our intellect. He who has thus free himself from desire, fear and anger, who has controlled his senses, mind and intellect, in his all-consuming ambitions for liberation, and who has quietened the flow of his breath, such an individual could remain in contemplation of Truth, without contact with the external world, his eyes fixed steadily and held in an upward gaze. Krishna says, “such a man of meditation is verily free for ever”. When we have made all the mentioned adjustments (physical and mental), at all levels of our existence, and when we sit in contemplation of the Self, we become released from all our misunderstandings and come to experience the freedom of Godhood…before long.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:54:15 +0000
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