E67 - The key to meditation is control over your mind. That starts with control over your sense organs. It's important to be careful about what we let influence our minds, because it is constant, relentless, non-stop. In order to connect with the Atman, we need to renounce the mind and its constant rumination. And renouncement cannot come from denial or will power. Those do not work. To control our minds we need knowledge and we start here with a little understanding of how the mind works.

E66 - This episode adds our first few steps on the road to meditation, offering both external and internal disciplines to help you control your desires and quiet your mind.

E65 - Lift yourself from the bondage of desire. Lift yourself by yourself. Himself (the Atman) is his (you) friend, Himself is his enemy.  Nobody can do this for you. The Atman is no the doer. Teachers cannot walk this path for you. You must lift yourself. We also learn about the 5 Sheaths and that for the self-realized person mud, stone, and gold is all the same and nothing is yours.

E64 - After starting with a short recap of Chapters 1-5, the doctor begins to take on the subject of meditation, which is the focus of Chapter 6 in detail. Are you ready for meditation? You must free yourself from the bonds of your mind in the form of desires and anger, likes, and dislikes. A path there is through realizing that whatever you do you should not be attached to the fruits of your actions. And you must realize that the actions you take are products of many lives and these lingering influences should be addressed.

E63 - Krishna is the enjoyer of sacrifice and austerity because these things bring you closer to him, or the Atman. By seeking control over the senses, mind, intellect, and desires we know the Atman and gain eternal peace.

E62 - He who is happy within gains the Atman and he rejoices within. Desire and anger, as well as likes and dislikes, block you from the Atman, So someone who controls these things is on his way to becoming a yogi. It starts with understanding that ignorance of the Self is the basic impurity of the mind.

E61 - The pleasure that we get from our sense organs is the womb of sorrow. Because all pleasure has a beginning and an end. But both indulgence and abstinence give you sorrow. If a person is able to withstand desire, anger, greed, and jealousy, they are a happy person.

E60 - Being one with Brahman means eternal bliss. Desire, greed, and anger are the three gateways to hell, the opposite of bliss (eternal disturbance of the mind). We learn that the self-realized person does not rejoice when he obtains what is pleasant and he controls his attachment to it. And we start to understand that meditation is the opposite of pleasure seeking.

E59 - In a wise person, we see both knowledge and humility. With more knowledge, we recognize the Atman in everything and everyone. But we also recognize that while the Atman is the same in all, everyone's Prakriti is different. And we discuss how everyone has a little cow, dog, and elephant in them!

E58 - This episode tells us that knowledge reveals the Atman like the sun, and we must differentiate between wrong knowledge and knowledge. Wrong knowledge is anything that prevents us from knowing the Atman as ourselves.