Gita: A Mantra for Success
Bhagavad Gita has the best life teachings but most of the explanations have been either theistical or philosophical in nature, making it a difficult read for many. Everyone wants to read it but only a few actually do. We are using a storytelling approach to explain the practical applications of the Bhagavad Gita in our personal and professional lives. We are two individuals - one a business leader and the other a Yoga teacher - with our own explanations and thought process to the Bhagavad Gita
Gita: A Mantra for Success
Chapter 6: Maitri - Karuna - Mudita - Upeksha
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Deepti & Vinod
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Season 2
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Episode 6
In this episode, we cover Chapter Six, focusing on Dhyana Yoga or meditation. Learn key techniques of meditation as explained by Krishna.
- How your mindset should be,
- How your meditation posture should be,
- How your eating habit should be,
- How your lifestyle should be.
- How your interaction with others should be.
We also cover what Patanjali suggested, which is,
"By cultivating attitudes of friendliness (Maitri) toward the happy, compassion (Karuna) for the unhappy, delight (Mudita) in the virtuous, and disregard (Upeksha) toward the wicked, the mind retains its undisturbed calmness, and that is how you can start meditating.”
Summary of the chapter:
- Renunciation is not giving up action. It is renouncing the obstacles that stand in the way of perfect action.
- The path of action is meant for the active people and path of renunciation for the contemplative.
- Redeem yourself by yourself. Nobody else can help you.
- Moderation and regulation of life’s activities are a must for material or spiritual progress.
- When the mind is in a scattered state there is no power. A gathered mind has power, is calm and effective.
- The intellect has high penetrating power when developed. It enables effortless excellence and takes you to Self realisation.
- Yoga is the separation of union with sorrow. Disconnect this union with sorrow. Then you fill find happiness within yourself.
- All desires are born of imagination.
- The test of spiritual development is the ability to see yourself in others and all beings in yourself.
- The doer of good never suffers. Selfish people will be destroyed.