The ocean is one of the most prominent realities in nature and scripture draws many lessons from nature. So let’s look at what we can learn from the ocean. The most common metaphor in the Bhagavad Gita is of our consciousness becoming as vast as an ocean by which even if desires flow into our consciousness, we don’t get affected — just like [despite rivers flowing into an ocean], the ocean doesn’t get affected. If instead our consciousness is like a puddle, then a desire flowing into it will disrupt it completely. The way to make our consciousness like an ocean is to fill our consciousness with a reality that is like an ocean, with a purpose that is like an ocean. That is ultimately Krishna and His service.

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02.70 A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires – that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still – can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires.