Attain Peace🔗

12.12 Knowledge is better than mere practice. Meditation is superior to knowledge. Renouncing the fruit of actions is better than meditation. After renunciation of fruits of actions, one immediately attains peace.

Krishna gives so many instructions. Step-by-step, He gives options. Actually, these are not only for Arjuna's mind. These are for all kinds of minds.

Let me tell a small story from Ramana Maharishi's life:

Somebody goes to Bhagavan and asks, 'Bhagavan, what

spiritual technique should I use?' He says, 'Do ātmavicāraṇa, Self-inquiry. Start questioning Who am I?'

After a few days, the devotee comes back and says, 'It is difficult to do Self-enquiry, can I just meditate?' Bhagavan says, 'Alright, do meditation.'

After a week, the person returns and says, 'Meditation is also difficult. Can I do japa, repetition of mantras and recitation of verses?' Bhagavan says, 'Alright, do that.'

A few days pass and he is back again saying, 'Japa is also difficult. Can I do puja, the ritual worship?' Bhagavan says, 'Alright. Do puja.'

Within a week the man is there asking, 'Puja is also difficult. Can I start going only to the temple?' Bhagavan says, 'Alright, do what you want.'

Masters do not want to close the doors for anybody. Please understand, they give options for everybody. Here, in these verses, Krishna gives options to everyone.

We need to have tremendous spontaneity to understand this. Only with spontaneity, will we be able to handle these instructions. For example, if you don't feel like meditating and are in a low mood, don't try sitting in a room with closed doors, forcing yourself to meditate. Just go out, go to the temple. Spend some time freely walking and moving around. It will relax you. Then you can enter meditation. And if you are not able to do that also, do something else. Do something that helps keep you in a relaxed mood that makes you feel relaxed. Then, you can enter into meditation.