The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita- 7.1 -Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, October 25, 2022. 08:30. Chapter 7: The Art of Meditation. ========================================================================= Dhyana yoga, or the art of meditation, is the subject of the sixth chapter of the Bhagavadgita. The subject of the collecting of the forces of one's personality into a centre is the great theme of this chapter. The dissipated energies of one's individual personality, which channelise themselves through the senses in the direction of objects, are conserved and raised to a higher level of potency for the purpose of an ascent in a vertical direction, we may say, towards the realisation of the highest Self of the cosmos. So at the very beginning of the chapter we are asked to raise ourselves by our own selves—uddhared atmanatmnam. The self has to be raised by the Self, uplifted by the Self. We ou