Look Within – Talks on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Venkatesananda.

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I can look back into the past at something that I was horrified by, that I

thought I wouldn't be able to survive without, but I have survived.

 

When I heard that Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead, I thought that the whole of

India was going to sink into the Indian ocean – it didn't, its there even today!

 

When I heard that swami Sivananda had passed away, I thought – " uhh finished "

 

But nothing is finished – life still goes on.

 

Even so, everything will go on – with me, without me, in spite of me!

 

That's more interesting – with you, without you, but sometimes in spite of you,

things go on!

 

What is this terribly important me there?

 

Gataasunagataasumsh cha naanushochanti panditaah.

 

If you stand in front of some of these graves of very important persons, like

Lord Forrest – can you visualise what they were when they were here?

 

How much they thought of themselves, and how they valued their `me' and `my'.

 

Now all these are gone, they have done their job. Even so this will happen to me

one of these days, it is nothing to be afraid of, it can be neither avoided, nor

shunned.

 

So neither the past nor the future, in itself has anything that need worry me or

make me anxious or frighten me.

 

This when it is seen directly, is wisdom.

 

To be continued..