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Meditation Yoga Chapter 6, Verse 40 śrī bhagavān uvāca pārtha naiveha nāmutra vināśas tasya vidyate na hi kalyāṇa-kṛt kaścid durgatim‌ tāta gacchati The Lord says: O Arjuna, neither in this life nor hereafter is there destruction for him; never does anyone who practises good, O beloved, come to woe. The merciful Lord, the Lord of the universe answers Arjuna, “O Arjuna, neither in this life nor hereafter is there destruction for him”. Can you see, how wonderful and merciful He is? “Never does anyone who practises good, O beloved, come to woe, or meet any evil destiny.” Arjuna is worrying, “If I don’t do my duty, will I lose all my good punya or the opportunity to advance?” Bhagavan Krishna replies that one doesn’t fall: no matter to which heavens or lokas one goes, one never falls. One always move forward. Such is the state of a bhakta who always continues on his spiritual journey. Wherever one abides, wherever one is after death, one continues to steadily advance towards Go...

Meditation Yoga Chapter 6, Verse 39 etan-me saṁśayaṁ kṛṣṇa chettum arhasy-aśeṣataḥ tvad-anyaḥ saṁśayasyāsya chettā na hy-upapadyate O Krishna, please completely dispel this doubt without leaving any residue,for there is none else than You who can destroy this doubt. “O Krishna, please completely dispel this doubt without leaving any residue.” Here Arjuna is showing his willingness to completely surrender to Lord Krishna. He is asking Krishna, “Dispel all my ignorance! Dispel it to the state where there is none left, so that there isn’t ‘any residue.’ Wash me completely clean!" It’s like when you have butter in a bowl. Even if you wash the bowl, if you put your hand in it, you can feel some residue. You can still feel the grease. Arjuna says, “Krishna, wash me completely clean! There is no one else who can do that but You!” He was well aware that Krishna was the Supreme Lord, Narayana Himself. He had realised that life after death was a mystery and that didn’t have any ...

Question - Gurudev, How to overcome duality of mind?  Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - Maharishi Patanjali is a great scientist and nobody understands the human mind like he does. He has discussed the nine types of obstacles that one can come across in the path of yoga in his foremost treatise- the yoga sutras. These nine obstacles- illness, inability to comprehend, doubt, carelessness, laziness, attachment towards the senses, hallucination, non-attainment of any state, and instability- cover every possible obstacle there can be. There is no tenth obstacle. He mentions that the way to get rid of the obstacles is by doing one thing at a time or ekatattvabhyasa. So what is the ekatattvabhyasa? It means attending to one principle. That one principle can be God, it can be the Guru, it can be self. It can be anything but ekatattvaabhyasa — practice one thing. It is the only way to overcome these obstacles. But what happens when you do just one thing again and again? You get bored or restl...