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What are words without the experience?

Week 17, Chapter 5 (shlokas 22-29)

 And those who have not been touched by the joy of their own spirit, may have no other option but to run after worldly pleasures which are nothing but a mirage, that lures a deer towards it, and before the poor thing discovers the illusion—it disappears leaving it (the deer) lost and miserable. This absence of pure joy of the spirit makes one fall for worldly pleasures. And just like the lightening from the sky cannot illuminate the world to perform its business, the short-lived nature of such pleasures cannot provide contentment to a being, rather they are like shadow of a serpent in which the mouse (the being) is sleeping not knowing its truth or like the worm that is being used to lure a fish. And what other options these worldly beings have other than running after worldly pleasures? And who will fulfill the realm of different worlds that are formed to create illusions, and pains, and sufferings? Who will walk on these paths? And who will carry the illusion created by maya? ... if not these ignorant beings.

About those who are enlightened… they already know what I said, and its for them, that when this pure desire for the joy of the spirit is awakened, it removes the veil of ego, and the being embrace the union with the supreme spirit. So, the illusion of duality is broken, and singularity prevails. But let us leave all these talks here o Arjuna! As without the real experience of the spirit, all these are nothing but words and those who have attained their union know this—are ‘that’ only, and dwells in the form of vibrations/consciousness even if they carry their physical body.

In (shlokas 27-28), Shri Krishna talks about some spiritual (meditation) acts/techniques that are practiced by the yogis to attain their union with the supreme spirit. He talks about the three subtle channels (nadis in Sanskrit) namely- Ida, Pingala and Sushumna and how to focus attention where these three nadis merge and how to unite pran and apaan vayu—I would rather not elaborate this technique as I am referring to translation of original text and would leave it to the discretion of the reader to understand it themselves, Again- surrendering and leaving the pure desire (for supreme union) to the universe..

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