VIII: 10

[Krishna Jaya]

Chapter 8, Verse 10

 

“Doing this at the moment of death,

With a steady mind,

Integrated by devotion,

Meditate on Him,

And you will reach

That resplendent supreme person

That I am.”

 

Sri Eknath Easwaran:

 

If we have trained our consciousness over the years to be united with the Lord, we shall successfully navigate the rupture in consciousness that takes place when the body is shed.  The key to such a passage is devotion.  As we set out on this journey, there should be nothing left in our knapsack.  When there are no lingering desires to tie us to the body, we will be able to keep our minds and hearts absorbed in the Lord without reservation.

 

Sri Aurobindo:

 

We arrive here at the first mention of the Supreme Purusha, who is even more and greater than the immutable Self (Akshara) and to whom the Gita gives later the name of Purushottam.  He too in his timeless eternity is immutable and far beyond all this manifestation.  Here in time there dawn on us only faint glimpses of his Being, conveyed through many symbols and disguises.  Still, he is not simply an indiscernible existence.  He is indiscernible only because he is subtler than the last subtlety of which the human mind is capable of being aware.

 

The union by love is not here superceded by a featureless unification through knowledge.  Love remains, to the end, the fundamental element of the supreme force of the Yoga.

 

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A friend:  " Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all." Paramahansa Yogananda

 

[This is not complicated]