Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana Book 11 Chapter 14:38-46

Book 11: Chapter 14

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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 11: Chapter 14: Verses 38-46

He should conceive It as symmetrical, gracious, having a charming countenance, with four long beautiful arms, a most shapely and graceful neck, lovely cheeks and bright smiles; with brilliant alligator-shaped ear-rings adorning well-matched ears, clad in golden raiment, dark-brown as a cloud, bearing (on the right and left side respectively of the chest) the marks of Srivatsa (a white curl of hair) and Sri (a golden streak); decked with a conch, discus, mace and lotus and a wreath of sylvan flowers, feet shining with anklets, (nay,) distinguished by the effulgence of the Kaustubha gem, graced all over with a glorious diadem, wristlets, girdle and armlets; charming of every limb, pleasing to the heart, with a countenance and eyes enlivened with grace and very soft to the touch. And he should concentrate the mind on each limb (individually as well). Withdrawing the senses from their objects with the help of the mind, and weaning the said mind (too) from all (other) objects with the help of the intellect, the driver (of the chariot of the body), a wise man should focus it on Me. Gathering that mind which takes in the entire personality (of the Lord), he should (learn to) concentrate it on one member (alone). He should no more think of other limbs and should fix his thought (exclusively) on the (Lord's) face wearing a winsome smile. Diverting the mind once it has gained its firm hold on My countenance, he should fix it on My all-pervading Self, (the substraturrrof all and unattached to all like the sky); and, transcending that too, and becoming-one with Me (the Absolute), should cease to think of anything else (not even of the distinction between the subject and the object). With his intellect thus established (in Me) he sees Me in himself and himself actually merged in Me, the Universal Soul, like (an individual) light in (the element of) fire. The misconception regarding Matter (in the form of the body etc., being his own self), knowledge (in the form of ascribing knowership to the Self) and action (in the form of attributing activity to the Self) will soon disappear from the mind of the striver who concentrates his mind through most intense meditation as aforesaid.

Thus ends the fourteenth discourse in Book Eleven of the great and glorious

Bhagavata-Purana, otherwise known as the Paramahamsa-Samhita.

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