Who gains this Vision?

In the modern psychological terms of our own times, Vyasa enumerates the conditions under which the human heart gets jerked into the divine beam, and comes to gain a clear vision of the Lord of the Universe in an immediate experience. Declares the Geetaacharya? Those who have their intellect absorbed in That, whose minds are soaked with That, who are steadfast in the pursuit of That, whose consumption is That they, their impurities cleansed by knowledge, do attain to the “never-return” (liberation).

Four conditions are here clearly enumerated as the most conducive adjustments within us, when we become tuned up to the Higher Consciousness.

“Those whose intellect is absorbed in That” (44).

Through study and sincere discussions with the learned, we come to intellectually appreciate the glorious theory of the spiritual life and gain a vivid concept of the goal to be attained. Your all-out participation in your studies is necessary in order to gather such a clarity of understanding of the profound vision of the spiritual life.

A mere intellectual of an ideal by itself is not sufficient to make us live that ideal. Through independent reflection, the ideal understood must come down to water our mind. “Whose mind is soaked with That’. The ideal we respect with our reason must become the altar of our adoration and love. Deep devotion felt for the ideal soaks the mind. Such a creative devotion is gained only when we hold long and deep reflections upon our ideal. Here begins our involvement with the ideal.

Next comes the stage indicated here by “those who are steadfast in their pursuit of That”, which represents the