November 10, 2026
In the Gita, Krishna gives us a comprehensive aspect of meditation. We can only go up to a certain stage, and Krishna clearly enunciates it. You cannot capture God. The word self-realization seems to suggest that you are going to create the self, because to realize is to make real. But is self-realization to make the self real? No. The fault is in the expression itself. We are not going to make the self real or God real, but we are going to purify ourselves.
How is this purification done? Lust or desire arises in our mind when we meditate upon an object. Why do we meditate upon an object? Have we ever asked ourselves this question? Obviously, we only think of an object associated with happiness, pleasure, enjoyment. How does the mind know that there is enjoyment in having that object, in possessing it, in being near it, in coming into contact with it? In this contemplation of the object of enjoyment, a link has been established. The mind has fixed a label upon it, and then wants a repetition. It is when the mind has a mental image of a past experience of pleasure projected onto an object, that the link is established. The desire arises. Otherwise there is no craving in the heart of man if this process is cut somewhere.