ABSORB YOUR MIND AND HEART IN ME
Now we will speak on the first part of this verse, man-mana bhava: “Absorb your mind and heart in Me.“ This is not a simple thing. If we want to absorb the mind in any one activity, we must fix our eyes, ears, nose and all our senses on it. If the mind cannot concentrate on something, it is more or less uncontrolled. Sometimes our mind is contemplating sense enjoyment, and sometimes we think about Krishna. This is the conditioned state. The highest form of worship is to absorb the mind fully in the lotus feet of Bhagavan. But when will this be possible?
Practice:
In meditation (dhyana), sit without any expectation. Apply vairagya to each and every thought as soon as it arises. Soon you will cut through sentences and even the beginning of words constructs. This cuts through the discursive or adventitious mind (monkey mind) and creates an open space for silence and light to abide. Accustom yourself to that open space.
In asana, allow yourself to be surprised and expect the unexpected. Allow yourself to learn from pure awareness in the present. Release (vairagya) any grasping, tightness, rigidity, or stasis thus using the body as a tool to release old body-mind configurations of fear, attachment, anger, attachment, or self-limitations until ego is let go.
The same process can be applied to all practices, making a sustained effort toward letting go ALL fixations and limitations. That is vairagyabhyam.
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