A Yogi in Meditation by Unknown Pahari painter
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Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind;
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Krishna describes the practice of meditation: sitting still, controlling the senses, focusing the mind on the Self. When the mind is perfectly still — like a lamp in a place where no wind blows — the yogin beholds the Self within and finds supreme joy beyond the senses.

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One of the Gita’s most beautiful similes — the undisturbed mind compared to a flame that does not waver.

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A Yogi in Meditation
Unknown Pahari painter, 1770 · Public Domain
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