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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8

BREAK YOUR ROOT THOUGHT PATTERN

If you look inside, the reason for your low inner space, powerless inner space will be some root thought pattern. Break that! Reclaim your freedom! Declare your freedom! Raise your inner space to the peak joy, fulfillment, and excitement.

Please understand, when Śwetaketu, a young seeker mentioned in Upaniṣads, was initiated by his Guru, his Guru said only nine times — 'Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi!' (thou are that), and Śweta-ketu became enlightened. Why then, even if you listen to 'Tat Tvam Asi' nine-thousand times, you don't become enlightened? Carry the right inner space! On the rock, seed can not sprout as a tree.

In the right fertile ground only, the seed can become a tree. In the right inner space only, the teachings can become reality. Right inner space means where all the root thought patterns of suffering are destroyed. Listen! All root thought patterns are destroyed where your inner space is fertile for experiencing the higher ideals and ideas.

When we become aware of these root thought patterns and are free from them, we leave the body and become liberated. This is what He means by light. He says that when this happens, the being does not return to the body.