Take the mind and the senses away from objects and turn them inward, toward the Divine, toward the realization of the intelligence that operates the senses, that operates the mind.

Usually we are not aware of it. We are not taking the time to recognize it. We take it for granted: “I just see, I just think, I just plan,” as if it’s obvious. But you should say it is not obvious.

There is divine intelligence operating in your eyes. There is divine intelligence operating in your mind. There is divine intelligence operating behind your emotional system.

In fact, your whole body is like a shrine. It is like a big temple complex in which there are many, many shrines. In each shrine, there is a divinity, a divine intelligence operating. So bring your attention to it.

Worship it. How will you worship? By feeding it with the right, appropriate things that will elevate — elevate your vision, elevate your thinking.

Because so many times, if we start to indulge, at a certain point we create disorders within ourselves. Then we have digestive disorders, mental disorders, emotional disorders.

And then we say, “Oh, I lost my health.” And we think, “Oh my God, health is so important.” Why didn’t you invest when it was there? Why did you allow disorder to happen?

So this was already there before — it’s just that we did not pay attention.

One should raise oneself by oneself.

And now, in Verse 7, he says: the Supreme Self of one who is self-controlled and peaceful is balanced in heat and cold, pleasure and pain, and also in honor and dishonor.

If you are engaging your life like this, it is not only that you will be healthy — you will realize a supreme sense of Self. You will realize your divine nature.

When? In all conditions.

If you take the time to treat your instruments as a temple and realize that the Divine operates through the functions of the body, the mind, and the emotions, then at a certain point this Divine will reveal itself as your higher nature.

It is called the Paramātma — the Supreme Self.

It is not something else. It is yourself.

You thought until now that you are just flesh and blood. You thought that you are just a human being. But if you follow what Krishna is teaching, you will realize that you are not just a human being.

You are a divine being having a human experience.

Before, the human experience seemed to cover the divine being completely. But when you act in the right way, the divine being is revealed as your own Self — at all times.

What is “all times”?

• Heat and cold — objective conditions
• Pleasure and pain — subjective experiences
• Honor and dishonor — social situations

In all situations, the Divine is realized as your own Self.

The self-controlled yogi, rooted in the Self, remains poised amidst the pairs of opposites.

What happens to us normally? When I take myself to be this body, this mind, this small individual — when things go well, I am elated; when things go wrong, I am depressed. I am always swinging like a pendulum.

But the yogi is not in the pendulum. The yogi is beyond it.

The yogi abides in divine bliss — a state beyond happiness and sorrow.

All experiences are allowed to come and go, like clouds in the sky. When I know myself as the vast sky, experiences arise and dissolve, but they do not affect me.

Just like waves in the ocean — whether there are waves or not, water remains water.

The yogi does not become divine. The yogi realizes that he was always that — eternal, immortal, divine.