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He who is the same to friend and foe, and also in honor and dishonor; who is the same in heat and cold, and in pleasure and pain; who is free from attachment; to whom censure and praise are equal; who is silent, content with anything, homeless, steady-minded, full of devotion - that man is dear to Me.
~Shrimad Bhagwad Gita (Chapter-12, Verses-18 and 19)
Context:
~ What does it mean to have a mind which is ‘full of devotion’?
~ How to develop equanimity?
~ How to have a devoted mind?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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He who is the same to friend and foe, and also in honor and dishonor; who is the same in heat and cold, and in pleasure and pain; who is free from attachment; to whom censure and praise are equal; who is silent, content with anything, homeless, steady-minded, full of devotion - that man is dear to Me.
~Shrimad Bhagwad Gita (Chapter-12, Verses-18 and 19)
Context:
~ What does it mean to have a mind which is ‘full of devotion’?
~ How to develop equanimity?
~ How to have a devoted mind?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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00:00 [Music]
00:07 Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verses 18 and 19.
00:13 "He who is the same to friend and foe, and also in honour and dishonour,
00:25 who is the same in heat and cold, and in pleasure and pain, who is free from attachment,
00:30 to whom censor and praise are equal, who is silent, content with anything,
00:36 homeless, steady-minded, full of devotion, that man is dear to me."
00:40 The question says, "Sri Krishna here is giving a lot of importance to equanimity.
00:47 How to develop this attribute in one's mind?
00:51 Also, what does it mean to have a mind full of devotion?"
00:55 Equanimity does not really mean giving equal importance or equal value to heat and cold,
01:10 to happiness and sorrow.
01:14 It is not about looking at day and night equally.
01:21 It is not about looking at friend and foe equally.
01:27 It is about not looking at these pairs of opposites at all.
01:33 That's equanimity.
01:35 If you look at friend and foe, then you cannot be equanimous towards them.
01:43 That's certain.
01:44 Because a friend by definition is a friend.
01:48 That's why you are looking at him. Why else are you looking at him?
01:51 A friend by definition is a friend.
01:56 And a friend carries value for you.
01:59 That's the only reason why you are looking at him. Otherwise, why would you look at him?
02:02 And a foe by definition is a foe.
02:05 And by definition, the foe carries value for you.
02:09 And that's the reason you are looking at him. Otherwise, why would you look at him?
02:12 There are so many other things to look at.
02:14 So, if you start looking at a friend and a foe, you cannot be equal towards them.
02:21 Therefore, equanimity is not to look at these two in an equal way or same or similar way.
02:29 Equanimity is about looking somewhere else.
02:32 Equanimity is about being absent to these pairs of dualities.
02:40 Heat and cold mean the same to me because I am bothered with neither heat nor cold.
02:49 So, how much does heat mean to me?
02:54 Zero.
02:56 How much does cold mean to me?
02:58 Zero. Therefore, heat equals cold.
03:01 It's not as if I want to establish h is equal to c.
03:08 That's not my objective because neither do I bother for h nor do I bother for c.
03:12 So, h is equal to c is not a priority with me at all.
03:15 My priority is something else.
03:18 And that leaves me with no priority to give to h or c.
03:25 So, how much does h receive from me?
03:28 Zero. How much does c receive from me?
03:32 Zero. Because both of these receive nothing from me,
03:37 they become equal because they don't exist in my eyes at all.
03:40 It's almost like saying I am equally good at maths and biology.
03:49 How? Because I study commerce.
03:52 I know neither maths nor bio.
04:00 That's equanimity.
04:02 You are in the commerce section.
04:06 How do you pass in front of the maths section?
04:12 Nonchalantly.
04:14 How do you pass in front of the bio section?
04:18 Pretty indifferently. Not bothered.
04:21 That's equanimity.
04:23 My section is somewhere else. I belong there.
04:26 I have no interest here.
04:28 So, that's equanimity.
04:32 If you want to practice equanimity by experiencing heat and cold in a similar way,
04:38 you would only be mastering hypocrisy.
04:42 That's what you would practice.
04:45 How not to display reactions when experiencing heat and when experiencing cold.
04:54 Because the experience is there.
04:58 All that you can win over is your reaction.
05:03 The manifestation of your reaction. That you can stop.
05:06 But the fact is, heat still means a lot to you.
05:10 That's why you went to experience heat.
05:12 Cold still means a lot to you.
05:15 Why the hell do you have so much time available to experience this and that
05:18 and then say neither of them mean anything to me?
05:21 Why are you not found busy with your own section?
05:27 You would be found there. Right?
05:28 And that's equanimity.
05:30 Therefore, the best way to practice equanimity is love.
05:36 You must be occupied with your beloved.
05:41 And then you become indifferent towards everything else.
05:45 This indifference is another name for equanimity.
05:48 Getting it?
05:53 Then what does it mean to have a mind full of devotion?
05:59 It means nothing.
06:01 The mind is anyway full of devotion.
06:04 Mind is another name for devotion.
06:08 It's just that in absence of discretion,
06:12 devotion becomes quite blind and mad.
06:16 The mind is always devoted to something. Or is it not?
06:22 Look at the Hindu history.
06:23 Look at this day to day.
06:25 Has there been a single moment when the mind was not devoted to something or the else?
06:30 The mind is always devoted.
06:32 The proof is mind is always with something.
06:36 The mind always has an object to be with.
06:39 Correct?
06:41 So the mind is devoted.
06:43 It's just that the mind does not know what it really wants.
06:47 Therefore, it gets devoted to all the little and stupid things.
06:51 You don't really need to have a mind with devotion.
06:55 Devotion is there. You need to have discretion.
06:58 You need to understand what is worthy of your devotion.
07:05 Not everything deserves your devotion.
07:07 At the same time, anything that you get devoted to would ultimately lead you to the truth.
07:13 But do you have 10,000 years to live?
07:18 How many years do you have in your current physical form in this mortal body?
07:23 You have some 10, 20, 40 years to live.
07:26 And if you get devoted to something, that will take 10,000 years to take you to the truth.
07:32 Are you doing yourself a favor?
07:34 That's the thing that you need to watch out against.
07:37 Discretion is the word.
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