Re: Bliss and The Striving Body - my healing (please read)

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Here is a quick google to clarify this theme that I wish to share as I realize and learn:

BG 2.50
buddhi-yukto jahatiha ubhe sukrta-duskrte
tasmad yogaya yujyasva yogah karmasu kausalam

Who discards here (and now) both good and evil works: brace yourself then for (yoga, spiritual exercise) for yoga is also skill in performing works.

*buddhi-yukta: as one who has yoked his intelligence, with the Divine. end quote.

Now, that brings forward the question, what is intelligence? Sri Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada has made that very clear. 'Servant eternally of Sri Krsna'.

The above google of Gita is from an impersonal type translation, but I find it useful to bring a very subtle point to the forefront. What is this spiritual exercise that we should cultivate within (constantly)? What is that yoga in connection with the Divine? What is that 'intelligence' that presses down to us?

It is simply this, 'an internal cultivation' of 'loving feeling toward God'. God is love and he yearns for love. And the process of mercy manifest of that cultivation is 'the Holy Name'. Hallowed be thy name (said Jesus)!

I have realized jaap is not a 'strive' Jaap does not have to be lengthy to be pure. It has to be simply free of offenses. And if it is cultivated in humility and sincerity, with 'loving feeling toward God', then desire to enter deeper into the 'internal process' will naturally awaken in due course. With taste.

karma-yoga, buddhi-yoga, and bhakt- yoga are non-different.

y.s. Nava.

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