Chapter 6 verse 24-25
“Abandoning, without reserve, all desires born of sankalpa, and completely restraining the whole group of senses by the mind from all sides, little by little, let him attain quetitude by his intellect held firm; having made the mind established in the Self, let him not think of anything”
The other day, I listened to a speech from Sri Sri Ravishankar who said that one should take a sankalpa to achieve something and promptly offer that desire to the Lord and surrender. That sankalpa should not be thought about again. This act of surrending our sankalpas to divine is the culmination of all yogas-karma, bhakti, raja and jnana. As well, difference between the mind and intellect is that mind is the storehouse of emotions from thoughts and intellect helps converts these thoughts into ideas and action. If the mind is able to achieve the dismissal of thoughts, then quietness is achieved and hence abandoning sankalpas is possible. This is a profound technique. It is not that men will not have desires. We just need the forbearance to give it up in the altar of divine.
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