Gita reflection Ch 6 verses 22 & 23

23rd May 2024

• The effect is nothing but the cause in another form. Mud alone is a pot, though it has assumed a form and a name. 

• Similarly, all happiness has only one cause or source, and that is the Self. Happiness is experienced within and not in the object of pleasure or person of love. 

• When the mind strays away from the Self, it experiences unhappiness, and when it comes closer to the Self, it starts to experience happiness. External objects, persons, and situations are only catalysts and not causes. 

• When one abides in the Self, the source of all happiness, there is nothing greater than it, and one is not moved by any sorrow caused by the world. 

• Consciously detaching from the sources of sorrow is true Yoga. This awareness is essential for the practice of meditation.