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Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya
Chapter-6 Dhyāna Yogaḥ
arjuna uvāca CommentaryWhat happens to one who has undertaken to practice meditation with sincerity, but does not have the ability to sustain diligent exertion in practice, nor actually succeeds in the practice, and whose mind constantly wanders? Does such a person perish like a small piece of cloud torn from a large mass of cloud — annihilated without reaching another large mass of cloud? Now, does one fall on both accounts? One is without support and is confused about the path leading to Self-realisation. He is without support in the sense that Karma or rituals which constitute the means for attaining heaven etc., do not provide support to a person who has rejected their rewards. He is also confused about the path leading to the Brahman [Self-realisation] on which he has just begun his [spiritual] journey— he has lost his way. Does he then become destroyed by failing on both accounts the attainment of heaven through Ritualism on the one hand and liberation through Meditation on the other. |