Explanation

A sensible person, according to the previous scripture, maintains a healthy balance of joy and sadness. This passage states that a balanced person will gradually gain insight and arrive at a point where any object or situation will lose its “real-ness.” Only the eternal essence will remain as the unifying factor in all objects and situations.

An example of this would be that many ornaments may be made out of gold but the essence is gold, it remains the same only the shape and name differ. Likewise in the material world, there will be different objects, persons, and things with different names and shapes but the essence of the divine that dwells in all is the same, the wise know this with practice, and see the divine everywhere and in everything and thus stay in peace and balance.

Verse & What We Can Learn

One should try to attain a state where one can go beyond name and form and can look at the essence or divinity in everything & everywhere.

Practicing meditation daily and staying alert and conscious about our thoughts words and deeds all the time will help us achieve the above state.

In the next verse, we will see Lord Krishna talking about the soul.

Let’s learn to live with “The Gita” via Meditation Affinity…