Resumo de The Holy Geeta

Study of the Mind

(From the General Introduction of The Holy Geeta published by Chinmaya Mission )

The Mind, for the purposes of our understanding, may be considered as constituted of two distinct sides ? one, facing the world of stimuli that reach it from the objects of the world and the other, facing the ?within? that reacts to the stimuli received. The outer Mind facing the objects is called the Objective Mind and the inner Mind is called the Subjective Mind.

The individual is whole and healthy in whom the objective and subjective aspects of mind work in union with each other, and in moments of doubt, the Objective Mind directly comes under the disciplining influence of the Subjective Mind. But unfortunately except a rare few cases, the majority of us have minds that are split. This split between the Objective and Subjective aspects of mind is created by a layer of Egocentric desires. The grater the distance between the two planes of Mind the grater is the inner confusion.

Through the organs of perception all of us experience the world of objects around us at all moments of our waking state. Innumerable stimuli react with our sense organs and create impulses which reach the Objective Mind. These impulses filter deep down the Subjective stratum after passing through the layer of the individual?s ego-centric desires. These impulses reacts with the existing impressions of his own past actions that were stored in the subjective layer and express themselves in the outside world.

All of us live, constantly meeting a variety of experiences, and at each incident we perceive, react with the perceived and come and act in the outer world. In this process the Subjective Mind gets increasingly granulated by the overlapping signatures of the past impressions making it dull and opaque.

An unhealthy mind divided in itself, as explained earlier becomes pray to a host of psychological diseases. Modern psychology exhausts volumes in describing to us the results of suppressions and repressions of emotions. There are many moments in our lives when we knowingly suppress emotions, but more often in our daily lives we unknowingly repress many of our sentiments. Repressed emotions accumulates tremendous amounts of dynamic energy which seeks a field of expression, unless they are properly guided they would boomerang back and destroy the individual.

This book explains these conditions in detail using an example (Arjuna) and suggests a cure in the form of different yoga?s primeraly focusing on Meditation.

Shrimad Bhagawad Geeta, the Divine Song of the Lord, occurs in the Bhisma Parva of the Mahabharata, and comprises of eighteen chapters from the 25th to the 42nd. The poet Seer Vyasa has brought the Vedic truths from the Himalayan caves.

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