The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

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endured and enjoyed for the sake of the Lord in all, not for
ourselves. Manmana : this is the refrain of the Gita. Krishna
tells Arjuna repeatedly, “Fill your mind with me, focus every
thought on me, think of me always”; then “you will be united
with me” (see 9:34). The same injunction was given to Moses
and reiterated by Jesus and Mohammed. In practical terms,
it means that awareness will be integrated down to the deepest
recesses of the unconscious, which is precisely the significance
of the word yoga .
Meister Eckhart says eloquently of this state:
Whoever has God in mind, simply and solely God, in all
things, such a man carries God with him into all his works
and into all places, and God alone does all his works. He
seeks nothing but God; nothing seems good to him but
God. He becomes one with God in every thought. Just as no
multiplicity can dissipate God, so nothing can dissipate this
man or make him multiple.
Thus we arrive at the idea of “actionless action”: of persons
so established in identification with the Self that in the
midst of tireless service of those around them, they remain
in inner peace, the still witness of action. They do not act, the
Gita says; it is the Self that acts through them: “They alone see
truly who see that all actions are performed by prakriti, while
the Self remains unmoved” (13:29). Again, this is a universal
testimony. Here is one of the most active of mystics, St. Catherine
of Genoa:
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