The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 53
Shruti Viprati pannate yada sthasyati nischala I
Samadhava achala buddhih tada yogam avapsyasi II sloka 53
When your intellect, tossed about by the conflict of opinions,has become poised and firmly fixed in equilibrium, then you shall get into yoga.
It is but natural for man to pay heed to conflicting views and to get confused over them. But nobody raises the query, "Am I alive or dead ?" And nobody's opinion is sought in this matter. Man's existence is self-evident to him. When mentation ceases in equilibrium, it is called Samadhi or Spiritual Illumination. Atman in its original splendour is then realised. Yoga reaches its culmination here. This state of pure consciousness is the goal of life.
First attain Godhood and then pursue the worldly things. Do not proceed in the reverse order. If you enter the life in the world after spiritual enlightment , you will not have anxieties of the mind.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Arjuna now gets an opportunity to raise a question. He submits it before the Lord in the next sloka.
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