Unless man attains self-knowledge and unites to God by believing and following His words, he will not attain peace.
You Are God – The Bhagavad Gita as never before reveals true sense of the words of God and shows you the path to eternal happiness. Verse 2:66 of the Bhagavad Gita clearly says that a person who is not united to God has neither intellect nor the truthful state of mind. And without a truthful state of mind one can neither have peace nor happiness.
How, then, can you unite with God and thus free yourself from stress? The answer to man’s eternal quest for happiness lies in understanding the self-knowledge and science of Yog imparted by Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna has revealed this wisdom in the Gita but we could not understood it. Lord Krishna has stated that all human beings are eternal living beings who neither die nor cease to exist but keep changing their bodies birth after birth. He also revealed that these bodies are embodied by the all-pervading indestructible, which means that all bodies are of God or all beings are God.
A person who becomes aware that he and all humans are same or God will be freed from stress and will attain peace and happiness. He will be freed from all ailments and diseases and even from old age and death. He will attain immortality. The awareness or realization that all the beings are same or God is the Wisdom that is God. A person can attain this state by uniting to wisdom or God that dwells in all hearts. This can be done by the Wisdom of Yog imparted by Lord Krishna and unfolded for the first time in You Are God.
Yog has two branches – Buddhi Yog and Karma Yog. The former consists of performing one’s actions with a steady intellect, accepting that the fruits of actions (success, failure, gain, loss and so on) are of God and it is God alone who is experiencing these joys and sorrows. While imparting Buddhi Yog Lord Krishna stated in Verse 2:47 that we do not have any right to the fruits of action. Those who do not renounce the fruits of actions to God remain under stress and fail to attain peace and happiness. The failure to renounce the fruits to God also results in the loss of intellect due to which we perish
A man contemplating the objects develops an attachment with them. From attachment arises desire and from desire arises anger. Chapter 2:62
From anger arises delusion, from delusion confusion of memory, from confusion of memory loss of intellect, from loss of intellect he perishes. Chapter 2:63
But the self-controlled, free from attachment and aversion to the objects, acts with his senses under self-control and attains peace. Chapter 2:64
In peace all his sorrows are destroyed; the intellect of the tranquil-minded soon becomes steady. Chapter 2:65
These verses show that a person who contemplates the objects while performing actions develops an attachment with the objects. This attachment gives rise to desire, anger, delusion, confusion of memory and a loss of intellect and with the loss of intellect the person perishes. As against this, a person who performs actions with a firm intellect that the success, failure, gain and loss are all of God and who renounces the fruits of all actions to God will be freed from attachment, desire, anger and delusion. His intellect will not be lost; he will become a Sthitprayaga or person of steady intellect. He will get both peace and happiness and will also become a non-perishable being.
You do not have to make any change in your lifestyle and actions to practise Buddhi Yog. The only change required is in the mind. Think of all successes, failures, losses and gains as belonging to God. Think that it is God who is enjoying the fruits of actions in the form of joys and sorrows. This will free you from ‘mineness’ and attachment with the objects or fruits. You will continue to enjoy all the sense objects but will no longer crave or yearn for these objects. Verse 2:70 of the Gita says that he attains peace unto whom all objects of enjoyment enter as the water enters the ocean, filling it from all sides yet remaining unmoved.
Verses 12:8-12 outline the ways by which a person can unite himself to Brahm or Gyan. These are based on mental and intellectual endeavour, not any bodily actions. If a person is unable to do these practices, Verse 12:11 tells him to renounce the fruits of all actions to God. Verse 12:12 says that the renunciation of the fruits of actions to God is better as peace immediately follows renunciation. It may thus be seen that unless a person renounces the fruits of actions to God he cannot attain peace and happiness but will remain elusive at all times.
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