LORD SRI KRISHNA

GÎTÂ UPANISHAD

STABILIZING

Stabilizing oneself in a pure place, stabilizing one’s consciousness, sitting on a slightly elevated seat, a Yogi meditates. 6/11

Commentary

Lord Krishna gives certain fundamental regulations for contemplation upon the Self:

1.      The place where one contemplates has to be clean. It has to be the same place daily for contemplation. Ensure that the place is pure and clean. You may use natural perfumery and incense to keep the ambience clean. You may have a lamp lighted and flowers decorated around the altar.

2.       Take the seat slightly higher than the floor. Let it not be too high and let it not be too low. Let it be as high as to enable a comfortable posture. Let the seat be covered either with a cloth or with any soft material which should also be cleaned and carry sattvic vibrations. A white cloth spread over the seat is preferable.

3.      Sit stable. A stable posture is important. A stable posture is possible only when it is comfortable. When it is not comfortable, one cannot stay stable. Each one has to find a posture in which one would not move the limbs of the body. Neither Krishna nor Patanjali or C.V.V. suggested any specific posture. They only suggested that each one should find one’s own comfortable posture in which one is stable.

        There is an esoteric significance of the above three regulations. The pure place stated in the first regulation is either the heart lotus or the Ajna lotus. The high place which the second regulation suggests also refers to heart or Ajna which are higher than the normal seat of man which is solar plexus. Stable sitting suggested by regulation three is to sit stable either in the heart or in the Ajna, as for one’s own inclinations.

4-      Regulation four is to contemplate about the Self. Contemplating upon the Self either in the heart or in Ajna, as a point of a golden light or as resonance of pulsation is recommended. By observing such light or pulsation, one’s awareness links to it and stays stable. Such stable contemplation is the fourth regulation.

"SEVEN TIMES SEVEN THE WHEEL ROTATES"