LIVING THE GITA VISION

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

LIVING THE GITA VISION
This is the call of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita to every sadhaka as he is moving towards his
goal of God-realisation. Unless we learn the manner of living in this world upon the Gita-spirit,
Gita-ideal, we will lose our way. We will get caught and entangled. Always assert: “Nothing can
entangle me. Never can I become entangled in anything, because I amthe immortal, ever-free Soul,
always one, secondless.” It is this interior awareness that makes one go through life amidst the
many and yet rooted in the One.
This Gita-awareness within and the Gita-vision of this changing world, the need to be in the
midst of the field of action but yet maintain and retain one’s awareness of being a serene witness, is
absolutely essential to all sadhakas who, being in the world and of the world, have to move towards
the great Goal. It is all the more essential in these changing times when human society has changed
so vastly. Conditions are not always conducive, helpful and favourable to this interior journey of
the soul towards its eternal Source. There is a lot of distraction and a lot of disturbance. In the midst
of all that, serenity is to be maintained.
It is only the vision and the spirit of the Gita upadesa of the second and third chapters that
will enable us to be in the midst of activity and yet be serenely poised in the Self that is actionless
and changeless. That alone abides; all else passes on.
“I shall be rooted in the Eternal and function in the non-eternal. I shall abide in the
Divine—God in me and I in God.” Thus may you reflect and contemplate upon the Gita ideal of life
in this world and the Gita ideal of action in the midst of this ever-changing phenomenal situation.
May you reflect deeply upon this and create an awakened interior within, so that the world is not
able to affect your sadhana, so that your sadhana goes on unhampered in spite of the distractions
outside, because you ever abide in the Self.
May the Lord, Jagad-Guru, Gita-Acharya, Bhagavan Lord Krishna, the World Teacher,
shower His divine grace upon you and may His grace manifest within you as this awakened
spiritual awareness and as the ability to act with expertise, so that in the midst of action you still
maintain an abidance in the ever-actionless Reality within, so that you are able to be actionless in
the midst of action.
May God’s grace manifest within you as the heightened awareness and elevated, uplifted
consciousness of the Reality. May you abide in that, and may you move through this journey of life
as an anasakta karmi, a detached actor. Always think: “Action is going on. I am not attached to it. I
am aware that I am not the actor.” May His grace manifest within you as this inner perception and
the inner awareness, the inner consciousness, which is the key to successful karma yoga together
with your bhakti, jnana and dhyana.