PEACE OF MIND

PEACE OF MIND


Every body desires peace of mind.

But this peace of mind is eluding every body.

What is the reason?

It is not far away to search.

It is within.

What we want to gain from sense pleasure is within mind but mind has been polluted since time immemorial.

The mind is nothing but a chain of tendencies which translate into thoughts.

Some time rational sometime prompted but there is not even a single moment when mind stops this brooding over.

Even in deep sleep state it is at work causing fanciful dreams.

It is wonderful aspect of body.

Mind does not die with the body.

The mind and senses are very different from their outlets appearing on body.
These are divine in their aspect.
Eternal Self Soul has been struggling with senses and mind to attain Lordship of material nature.

Lord Krishna says in verse seven chapter fifteen:


Mamevansho jeevloke jeevbhutah sanatanah I

Manahshashthaniindriyarhi parkritsathani karshayati II



Shariram yadavapnoti yachchutkramati ishwarahI

Grihitvaetani sanyati vayurgandhanivashayat II


Kshotram chakshuh saparshanam

ch rasnam ghrarhamev ch I
adhishthay manashchayam

vishyananupsevate II (15.7-9)



Self soul, my eternal fragment in form of living entity, situated in material nature, is struggles with six senses including mind.

As wind takes away fragrance from its source, living entity while obtaining a new body or leaving one, it carries six
senses including mind with it.

Living entity obtains Ear, eyes, the organ of touch, taste and smell as well as mind and enjoys the sense objects through them in new body.

Living entity situated in a body, while leaving a new body or obtaining a new one in the process of karmic cycle of transmigration, takes six senses including mind with it like air taking fragrance from a flower. Even when living in a particular embodiment it interacts with them through their respective outlets by way of identification.

Mind is the work force.

The difference is so thin that it can be assessed by wisdom only.

Here is the secret of life.

Embodied self soul is the eternal fragment of Lord Krishna.

The consciousness in this embodied self is the part of supreme consciousness, infinite Lord.

This infinitesimal has all qualities of Supreme Self with its independent existence.

Making stupid misuse of this little freedom, this self soul identifies with material nature.

This living entity/ self soul exists in the embodiment is confirmed by following verse in chapter 2:

Dehinoasmin yathadehe komaram youvanam jarah I

Tatha dehantarprapatirdhirastatra na muhayati II (2.13)

Just as birth, boyhood, youth and old age are attributed to the soul through its body, even so it attains another body in this process, and wise man is not deluded about all this.

Assertion of Lord Krishna in this verse is eye opener for human beings.

They should be very happy to know that they are originally eternal fragment of Lord infinite and not the present body. It paves an easy way for those who want and wish self realization.

Now one can start seeing through the scene presented in this verse through which a self soul has to pass while identifying with cover of embodiment.

A self soul first obtains a womb. According to its karmic reactions of goodness, passion and ignorance initiation of embodiment starts in womb of mother through a father.

After birth the embodiment has to pass through helpless childhood, then boyhood, youth, old age.

After cessation of life period, it obtains another body in a natural course of cycle of life and death, if he attaches itself with actions and their results.

Self soul is free like that of supreme self but not like him.
Embodied Soul actually wants to establish his Supremacy like Lord but with the help of material nature.

How it is possible?

Exercising its minute freedom, though being powerless, it encounters powerful material energy of almighty Lord infinite.

By way of sense gratification and accumulation of wealth, the embodied self soul wishes to establish its supremacy.

By coming into contact of material energy in form of body, mind, intellect, senses, it identifies itself with them and poses to be doer of reactions.

It attains embodiment only because of its attachment with nature and its qualities.

As it obtains body, the body develops into childhood, boyhood, then transforms to youth. Old age comes without his desire to face it. The self soul accumulates all these changes over it self.

It attains other embodiment due to the result of its attachment to exhaust the fruit of identification of action for attaining liberation.

Action and its fruits result in an unending account.
This account accumulates with continuous identification with material energy and its evolutes.

Knowing this, the wise does not attach him with the actions or their results.

There has no self soul who has obtained same incarnation as was its previous one.

And why all these beings are having different shapes, forms and structures.

This is all modification of self due to karmic reactions
In this verse Lord Krishna has addressed ‘self soul’ as ‘my part’ that is clear from this that the self soul has a deep and real relation with Lord.

It had no relation with the material nature to which it has identified.

Due to this wrong identification the self soul has invited self bondage, in karmic prison.

Embodiment results from the combination of mother and father but here in the case of self soul, it is only father who has spread himself in the self soul of all beings.

Self soul has no concern with the material nature.

This material world is alien to us.

We have identified our selves with material body, mind and senses.

Self soul is struggling with these forms of material nature.

The entire world including the heaven is foreign for self soul.

Where ever it may go it will have to enter into transmigration, till it recognizes its eternal nature.

This is self soul’s struggle that it wants to be happy in the company of material nature in form of senses and senses objects, but instead of getting happiness from sense gratification, it gets itself more entangled.

The net result is that self soul is forcefully chained in bondage.

Resulting unending miseries, dualities and attaining no happiness from Life after life, body after body.

Out of blunder of seeking happiness from material energy we have preferred to detach ourselves from Lord Infinite to whom we really belong. The self soul has become so much conditioned with material nature that it does not wish to shed it.
By looking face of the body in mirror, being called by others by a particular name, it got from this world, self soul identifies itself with cover of in form of body consisting of five elements, it identifies with those actions which are the reactions of its previous attachment in earlier embodiments.
Moreover it wishes to obtain fruits of those actions which are not his. If this goes on in this embodiment, it is not going to be a happier state either as this the position shall continue in next incarnation of material body, but it is not certain which form this self soul is going to get.
It is better to make full use of this golden opportunity of human form.
Recognize that you are not body; you are self soul witnessing all acts of body impartially, so as to clear sins and self soul go twinkling likes pure diamond. With body, mind, intellect, and senses, yogis see actions being done by material nature in form of three evolutes and detached they obtain freedom from bondage and go in the service of Lord Almighty.
Lord Krishna says:
kayen mansa budhya kevalerindreyerapi I
yoginah karam kurvanti sangam tyaktvatamvishudhye II (5.11)

Karamyogis do act through senses, mind, and body as well only for self purification, shunning attachment with them.
Ego and attachment with body are the feelings which basically bind soul with embodiment which is result of past deeds arising out of three qualities of nature.
Human embodiment is meant for attaining liberation.
The yogis shunning attachment altogether, act with body, mind, intellect and senses only for purification by undergoing reactions dispassionately. These natural acts come in usual manner. Identification with them is due mental exercise. This boils mind. This is cause of unhappy state of mind. If there is no desire for fruit, the mind will rest in peace.

Karamyogis do perform duties resulting from past experience and undergo sorrow and happiness alike. They see nature doing all activities and not their self.
The actions are never binding; they rather purify the self soul from sins which comes out in form of reactions. “Word sin has been rightly explained in verse 13 of chapter three:
Yagyashishtahshanah santo muchayante sarvkilvasheye I
Bhunjante te agham papah ye pachantiatamkararhat II (3.13)

The wise men, who partake what is left over after sacrifice, are absolved of all sins. Those sinful, who cook for only nourishing their body, eat only sin.
The message of Lord Krishna is clear. What ever we do, it should be done with a spirit of sacrifice.
Attachment with actions is fraught with danger of being involved in continuous transmigration, Sacrifice to Demigods and Lord of all deeds whether good or bad coming through nature are sacrificed to Lord and then the ever free soul goes to Lord himself without any fear of migration from one body to other.
Identification of self soul with those actions and desiring fruit is one, acting like a thief desiring others’ property.
Blessed with intellect, a soul in human form can attain liberation by doing away with attachment.
Devotion to Lord in simple way is that desire for fruit of acts is no more and all acts which are occasioned by senses, mind and body are surrendered to Lord.
Attachment completely banished from life span in a particular embodiment, purifies self soul of identification and attachment with material nature and pure soul leads to Lord.
Lord Krishna has assigned the embodied soul easiest way to achieve self realization but the impact of his unimpeachable three folded power of material nature is so great that even liberated souls have every chance to fall prey to it.
Height of illusion which has been caused by Material Nature is that one desires fruit for reactions of past deeds.
But one, who has perfected reality by detachment, transgresses cycle of transmigration;
yuktah karamfalam tyaktva shantimapnotineshthkim I
ayuktah kamkarerh fale sakto nibadhayate II ( 5.12 )
By offering fruit of actions to Lord, a Karamyogi attains lasting peace in form of self realization, where as the ignorant not realizing himself binds his soul by attachment and identification with acts and by desire of their positive results.
This is certain way to attain peace of mind.
Mind involves in thoughts, some relevant and other totally irrelevant.
Thus it never attains peace.
If one becomes witness to these thoughts by observing them from distance, the thoughts subside and vanish.
Mind then does not struggle and becomes peaceful by and by.
A Karamyogi knowing that he is not the doer and all acts are result of his past deeds, culminating in embodiment, does not attach him with actions nor desires any fruit for these actions.
He/ she also know that the actions are coming automatically and he/ she is not the doer.
Peace is attained by Karamyogis by resorting to detachment.
Planning and execution of action are again binding.
Material nature automatically causes action and reaction, knowing this; the yogis do all actions selflessly and preferably for the welfare of other beings.
Such self soul, seated in body, acts without attachment and witnesses all actions with no desire for fruits of actions, it is only mind with which self soul identifies. Thus whatever troubles befalls body; Karamyogi takes them as predestined and see an act of kindness of Lord in them.
He takes them as blessings from Lord as they were due to attachment of actions previously done.
But whatever is done now, he does not attach himself to it. This enables himself to realize. But ignorant binds him by way of further attachment and desire for fruit of act executed by nature.
Senses, mind and body are the after effect of nature, so whatever is done by these organs is caused by nature, but the self soul so embodied, is actually free.

It is only the mind which has attained non- existing attachment; it is the formidable mind which creates desire and the like: thence proceed varieties of actions. These lead to rebirth in accordance with reactions of attachment with actions.
But if these act done without desire and attachment, they result in liberation.
sarvkarmarhi mansa sanyaste sukham vashi I
navdvare pure dehi nev kurvanna karyan II (5. 13)
A wise man mentally renounces all actions and rest happily in self, relegating all actions to mansion of nine gates.
There may be repetition of facts but these are meant for grasping the real purport of human form.
The yogis once tuned to the detachment from body, mind, and intellect, senses and their objects, attain unalloyed peace.
They renounce the entire wealth.
They can even sacrifice the wealth of entire universe for seeking self realization.
Actually there is truly no more enliven and exhilarating experience than fully dedicating one self to selfless service, considering every image, the image of Lord himself.
The human body consists of nine openings which are gateways of senses. These are outlets. Actual senses are divine, you can see the outlet not theses senses.
Individual soul seated in embodiment assuming it to be doer, is not doer in real terms.
It is the mind which thinks of sense objects and inspired by intellect it prompts a particular sense, to act through its outlet.
All sense outings are performing with their objects and onlooker soul has nothing to do with those acts. But an assuming doer ship and its desire for fruit of act done by senses; mind and body lead to bondage.
So a sage with awakened self witnesses all acts being done through nine outings of body and remains a happy lot enjoying its own bliss.
He reflects on bondage and liberation of the self through the pursuit of wisdom.
Bondage consists of attachment with senses and liberation in their control. Therefore a sage, controlling all his senses, looks upon everything in Lord, deriving great bliss from self, turning away from petty desires.
Lord Krishna has explained the divine tree of this universe in verse 3 and 4 of chapter 15.
The beginning, the end, or real form of this world tree is not perceptible. Its roots are desires, having cut its roots of this tree by mighty axe of detachment and self knowledge; self soul should seek that supreme abode from where there is no return to this mortal world.
Identification and attachment are two mighty weapon which cause bondage as well as liberation

One cannot see process of fragrance being taken away by air but one can seemingly smell it.

The process of living entity taking six senses including mind cannot be perceived by ignorant but wise can feel it.

On obtaining new body, the conditioned self soul again starts its struggle with these senses, mind, intellect, to get happiness out of sense objects but it does not dawns upon it that the human form has been blessed for realization and not for accumulating material prosperity.

The self is eternal and its different bodies are transient.

Lord Krishna says in chapter two:

Antwant eme deha nityasyoktah sharirirhah I
Anashinoaperamaysya tasmatyudhasav bharat II (2.18)

All these bodies pertaining to imperishable, indefinable and eternal soul are spoken of, as perishable, therefore, Arjun, so you are to fight.

All beings coming into existence are outcome of effect of three qualities of nature.
The bodies coming into existence and departing as per the dictates of these qualities and attributed to imperishable, eternal and indefinable self soul are destructible, so they are always a dead without soul. Lord Krishna is advising Arjun to fight as the relatives whom he does not want to fight with, are being identified by Arjun as bodies of particular persons, not the spirit, soul, self, which is part and parcel of that indestructible Supreme Self.

Ya enam veti hantaram yashchmanyate manyate hatam I

Ubho tao na vijanito nayam hanti na hanyate II (2.19)

He who knows that the soul to be capable of killing and who takes it as having been killed, they both are ignorant; for verily the soul neither kills nor is killed.

Soul is eternal and blissful. But as it attaches itself to material nature in form of embodiment, its manifestation account starts operating.

Due to identification of self with the body, as own self, the soul goes on migrating from one body to other.

When it leaves one body and enters another on account of its attachment with reactions of past deeds, the eternal self remains the same self.

Alas it has traveled tgousands of embodiments and it is still the same eternal, then how it can be a body.

A true reflection of Supreme Self, all empowered divine and full of wisdom.

Whenever it happens to realize its true self, it is liberated.

Bondage was not real but it was there because of attachment.

Self soul is neither capable of killing nor it is ever killed but it departs from one body to enter another with the fruits of past deeds exhausting and body being left forcibly.

What is this all?

One should try to grasp the fact.

Self soul is incapable of doing anything at its own.

It is an eternal bliss.

When it remained in the service of Supreme Self, it opted to assert its own poweress.

It found attractive material nature like a beautiful woman inviting a handsome boy.

It then started building its own castles with evolutes of material nature.

Since then it has been playing monkey in the hands of material nature, causing pair of dualities, pleasure or pain, happiness and distress, cold and warm etc

These have never affected the self soul which is awareness and consciousness.

It is same in all beings.

A personal embodied soul pretending to kill another only kills the body by depriving it of consciousness.


Na jayate mriyate va kadchinnayam

bhutva bhavita va na bhuyah I

Ajo nityah shashvatoayam puararho

na hanyate hanymane sharire II (20)

Soul is never born nor it dies; nor does it become so only on being born. It is unborn, eternal, ever lasting and ancient; it does not die even though body is slain.

Lord Krishna is unfolding truth of life.

Life is not only to eat, drink and be merry.

It is certainly beyond that.

The human form is mini universe and self realization is so easy in this form that the top most of the sinners has a chance to realize his true self by devotion to Lord.
By chanting his names, one is able to clean his consciousness.

Complete surrenders of every act unto Lord free self soul.

Lord Krishna has stressed in following verses of chapter 6 as to how a person can attain the stillness of mind.

Sankalanparabhavankamanstyaktva sarvanasheshatah I

Mansevendrayegramam viniyamya samantatah II



shaney shaneyerupramedbadhya dhritigrihitya I

atamsanstham manah kritva na kinchitapi chintayet II


yato yato nishachalti manahchanchalamasthiram I

tatastato niyamyaetadatmanyev vasham nayet II



parshantmanasam hienam yoginam sukhamutamam I

upeiti shantrajasam barahambhutamkalshamam II (6.24-27)

All desires arising from thoughts of world completely renounced, with mind and senses restrained from all sides.

Slowly and steadily, yogi should by practice to attain tranquility, fixing mind on Lord Krishna/ self and not to think of any thing else.

Where ever restless and fidgety mind goes, it should be drawn back from all those objects after which it runs, yogi should repeatedly fix his mind on Lord Krishna / self.

Yogi whose mind is perfectly serene, who is sinless, whose passions are subdued, who is identified with Braham the embodiment of truth, knowledge and bliss, to him supreme happiness comes as matter of course.

Control of mind is the highest yoga- like control of a unruly horse, with a view to make him conform to his rider’s wishes at every step.

One should reflect through discrimination on the origin and dissolution of all things in their backward and forward order, till the mind is at rest. Ultimate cause of all modifications is nature and nature is another form of Lord Krishna. When one concludes that only self exists and nothing else, mind in that embodiment gives up its wickedness.
Mind sets the chain of thoughts and executes them by involving senses with sense objects.

All thoughts about world completely renounced, a desire less one, having passions under control slowly and steadily attaining tranquility of intellect with mind now solely on Lord Krishna/self.

When yogi’s mind is disgust with work with an understandings and averse to their results, with senses under control, holds his steady mind in atman. Not losing sight the course of mind, holding pranas and senses to subjugation, mind should brought under control.

By reaching this position yogi attains supreme happiness.

Span of life of an embodiment is limited and it is being cut short by rotation of minutes, hours, days and nights, months, years without ascertainment of final time of departure from the embodiment.
Wise man trembles in fear and giving up all attachments realizes the Supreme Being, truth, knowledge and bliss.

Supreme peace bestows upon him as matter of course.
Peaceful mind is apostle of self realization. It now sees self every where and in every object it sees the transposition of self.

Lord Krishna continues in chapter 6:

Sarvbhutasthatamanm sarvbhutani chatmani I

ikshyate yogyuktatma sarvatra samdarshanh II


Yo mam paashayati savatra sarvam ch mayi pashayati I

Tasyaham na parhashyami sa ch me na parhshayati II


Sarvbhutsithitam yo mam bhajtiekatvamasithitah I

sarvatha vartamano sa yogi mayi vartate II

oupmyen sarvatra samam pashayati yoarjun I

sukham va yadi va dukham sa yogi parmo matah II (6.29-32)

The Yogi who is united with all pervading infinite Consciousness, sees same self every where, all beings in self and Self in all beings.

He who sees Me in all beings and beings existing in Me, never loses my sight and I never lose his sight.

Yogi who is established in union with Me and worships Me as residing in all beings abides in Me, no matter what he does.

Arjun! who looks on all as one, like one self in him, looks upon the joy and sorrow of all with a similar eye- such Yogi is deemed to be highest of all.

Supreme self is one supreme consciousness all pervading.

That is same self seated in all beings.
How to know and feel it?
He who waking state enjoys, through all organs, objects with ever changing attributes in the outside world, who in dream has experience similar to them in his heart, and who withdraws from them in profound sleep, are one and same atman/self/ consciousness- the witness – of all three states and ruler of organs. This is proved from memory of all these states.
The witness of all these states is one, since a man remembers his experiences in waking and dream states and also his ignorance in dreamless sleep, the unchanging witness of these is Aatman/self.

Three qualities of nature and self soul’s association and quantum of attachment with them is the root cause of different embodiments of self soul.
/consciousness in all beings is same, elements forming embodiments are same, so all beings are in one self and one self is in all embodiments.

Individual percepting sees only one self in all beings inanimate and animate.

Yogi seeing this is always imbibed to Lord Krishna.

In such state self is always with him and he is always in sight of self as self alone exists, prevails in all modifications whatever may be the form.

Yogi who has attained this state, whatever manner he acts, acts in self / Lord Krishna as all activities are also caused in self.

This yogi sees self being cause of all pleasure and pain in all beings, does not differentiate his pleasure or pain from that of other beings.

Ashtavakar tells King Janank way to liberation in unique way:

Muktimichhasi chetatt vishyan vishvat tyaj I

Kshmaarjavamdayatoshsatyam piyoshvadbhaj II

(Ashtavakar Samhita (1.2)
Ashtravakar says:
If you desire liberation detach yourself from sense objects like that of poison and adopt nectar of forgiveness, truthfulness, satisfaction and mercifulness.

Ashtravakar is a liberated soul and is setting principles of attaining liberation from transmigration. Self soul is eternal but it has identified itself with evolutes of material nature. Ego of being an embodied self and its identification with body mind set is the root cause of attachment with reactions of material nature causes cycle of life in a particular body and death of body. Travel of eternal life from one body to another has been continuing from the time immemorial.

Paryatnadyatmanastu yogi sanshudhkilvishah I

Anekjanamsasindhastato yati param gatim II (6.45)

The Yogi who in this very life takes up practice attains perfection with help of tendencies of many births, and being purged of sin, immediately reaches supreme state.

Life factor is divine.
It is consciousness which has maligned by identification with mind body set. This identification is to be left by mere thought.

Mind is the store house of tendencies.

To get rid of these tendencies one has to see these passing in form of thoughts rising in mind with no involvement.
The play of mind is to be watched from a distance. Consciousness is mere witness.

One has to become aware of this awareness of existence.

This is life, eternal life, it never dies, body dies, it is not me, I am awareness with no desire.

Thoughtless mind is at peace.

Peace is attained when mind stops speculation about material nature and its acquisition.

At the same time it attains peace when it devolves upon Lord and His material manifestation in form of this universe.

Wordsworth rightly wrote:

We have no time to stand and stare.

Mind is so engrossed in material activities that one has no moment to contemplate on the truth.