Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 31

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

PREFACE Moved by sentiment, if someone insisted on staying with my most revered and noble mentor Parmanand Ji, he would say, “Go and live anywhere you like with your body, but in your mind be with me. Every morning and evening recite some one or two-lettered name like Ram, Shiv, or OM, and contemplate my form in your heart. If you can securely hold on to this form, I shall give you the one whose name you recite. When your hold gets yet stronger, I shall always abide in your heart like a charioteer.” When our Self has become one with the form of the accomplished teacher, he dwells as intimately with us as our own limbs. He begins to guide even before the emergence of virtuous inclinations within the mind. And when he abides in the devotee’s heart, he is ever awake and inseparably with this disciple’s Self. After viewing Yogeshwar Krishn’s manifold glories in Chapter 11, Arjun cringes with fear and begins to apologize for his petty improprieties. As an affectionate friend and considerate teacher, Krishn readily forgives him and re-assumes his placid, benign form. He then tells Arjun that neither has anyone seen this manifestation of his in the past nor can anyone see it in the future. If it is so, vision of the Supreme Spirit was meant for Arjun alone, and the Geeta then is apparently of no use for us. But doesn’t Sanjay have the same vision along with Arjun?