Bhagavad Gita 13.29

samaṁ paśyan hi sarvatra

samavasthitam īśvaram

na hinasty ātmanātmānaṁ

tato yāti parāṁ gatim

 

Seeing the Supreme Lord in all, everywhere,

Equally present, in control, here and there;

The soul does not harm himself by his mind,

Thus the supreme destination does he find.

 

My dear Lord, far greater than the trouble created by situations that come upon me from outside is the trouble created by the emotions and reactions that my mind triggers from inside. Help me reduce and remove such self-created trouble from my life.

O supreme Lord, my mind is often overpoweringly overreactive—running away from what seems like unbearable trouble or running toward what seems like irresistible pleasure. It feels that it alone knows what is in my best interest and that it alone has to act to secure it. Essentially, it believes that it is God, that it is you. And as long as I do not believe that you are in control, I consciously or unconsciously end up succumbing to my mind’s control. I unwittingly make it my god, and it unfailingly takes me to hell.

O omnipotent Lord, no matter how chaotic, crazy, or even cruel the events happening to me may seem, none of them are outside the jurisdiction of your control. You are so resourcefully multifaceted, and your plan so flexibly fixed, that you continue to make it manifest even through the senselessness perceived at my mind’s level.

O merciful Lord, bless me so that I may have the steady vision to see your controlership and thereby say a confident and consistent no to my mind’s insinuations, imaginations, and impositions.

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13.29 One who sees the Supersoul equally present everywhere, in every living being, does not degrade himself by his mind. Thus he approaches the transcendental destination.