Cancalatvat means agitated mind. We must always remember that we are in a circumstances, material circumstances, where every time, every moment, our mind is agitated. We are not in a very comfortable situation

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"Cañcalatvāt means agitated mind" |"We must always remember that we are in a circumstance, material circumstances, where every time, every moment, our mind is agitated. We are not in a very comfortable situation"

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Cancalatvat means agitated mind. We must always remember that we are in a circumstances, material circumstances, where every time, every moment, our mind is agitated. We are not in a very comfortable situation.

660914 - Lecture BG 06.32-40 - New York

You can understand how much time could be, I mean to, allowed for this discussion. That was a battlefield. Immediately has to be fight. Everyone is ready. So . . . and utmost, one hour. I don't think . . . that is utmost. So within this one hour the whole Bhagavad-gītā was discussed, and Arjuna changed his decision and he fought. Now, within that time He is also instructing Arjuna about the yoga system.

Now, after hearing the details of yoga system—how to sit down, how to keep the body straight, how to keep the eyes half-closed and how to see the uppermost part of the nose without diverting your attention, and in secluded place, in a sacred place, alone . . . all this paraphernalia is described for performing perfect yoga system. Now, Arjuna, after hearing everything from Kṛṣṇa, he is replying.

arjuna uvāca

yo 'yaṁ yogas tvayā proktaḥ

sāmyena madhusūdana

etasyāhaṁ na paśyāmi

cañcalatvāt sthitiṁ sthirām

(BG 6.33)

Now, Arjuna said: "My dear Kṛṣṇa, the details which You have . . . not very details, but a summary of yoga system which You have prescribed and You ask me to follow, I think it is very difficult for me on account of my agitated mind." Cañcalatvāt. Cañcalatvāt means agitated mind.

We must always remember that we are in a circumstance, material circumstances, where every time, every moment, our mind is agitated. We are not in a very comfortable situation. We are thinking that, "This situation will save me for further anxieties of my mind," but when I reach to that point, I feel that the anxieties have increased. It has not decreased. Because the nature of the material world is like that. You cannot be free from anxiety. That is the nature. So we are simply trying to make a solution of our anxieties by different method, but the place is that, that it is not possible to make a solution of anxieties.