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कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते
You have the right to act...
A guided meditation on this verse: settle, breathe with its meaning, rest in silence, and carry its essence into your day.
विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः |
रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते ||२-५९||
viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ .
rasavarjaṃ raso.apyasya paraṃ dṛṣṭvā nivartate ||2-59||
Krishna shares a subtlety: "You can force yourself to stay away from temptations, but the craving for them may still linger inside. That deep craving only truly disappears when you experience something higher."
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विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः |
रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते ||२-५९||
viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ .
rasavarjaṃ raso.apyasya paraṃ dṛṣṭvā nivartate ||2-59||
BG 2.59
Settle
You can turn away from a temptation, yet the craving for it lingers within you — until something far deeper satisfies the longing of your soul. Taste the stillness now.
The essence
The craving fades when something higher is tasted.
Breathe
You taste this quiet You release the smaller hunger
Contemplate
What deeper satisfaction would make a craving simply fall away?
Take with you
Write of a craving and the deeper thing it is really reaching for.