Bhagavad Gita 2.72
eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha
naināṁ prāpya vimuhyati
sthitvāsyām anta-kāle ’pi
brahma-nirvāṇam ṛcchati
“This is the state divine, the goal of life’s highest way.
Where all delusions, without exception, fade away.
Being situated thus, even at life’s final breath,
One gains perennial release from birth and death.”
My dear Lord, the state of a loving union with you, where all the distractions of the world become insignificant, is my heart’s deepest aspiration. Unfortunately, this aspiration is presently buried so deep within me that I hardly feel its presence.Instead, I feel driven by the superficial desires that are active and loud at the surface level of my consciousness. O Lord, I beg you, let me take my times of silence and spiritually focused practice seriously. During these moments, please, O Lord, make my surface desires silent so that my deeper desires can manifest.
On a few occasions, this has happened. Precious are the moments when I have felt deeply connected with you, and when my desire for you, being nourished by your reassuring and rejuvenating presence, has become so strong that everything in this world paled into the background. Let those precious moments become prominent in my memory. My dear Lord, let them become the North Star that guides the boat of my life’s journey through the turbulent ocean of this world, an ocean whose waves are the many surface desires that otherwise drive me. I beg you, O Lord, make my desire for you the desire that drives me, and the desire that drives all other desires away from me.
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02.72 That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God.
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