Strengthening the Consciousness

Bhagavad Gita with Commentaries / Strengthening the Consciousness

Strengthening the Consciousness

With advancement through the stages of buddhi yoga, one’s amount of the energy of the consciousness grows and so strengthening of the consciousness (or crystallization of the consciousness) takes place:

2:64. … He who has conquered his indriyas, renounced attractions and distractions, and established himself in the Atman attains the inner purity.

2:65. When the inner purity is attained, all sorrow disappears and the consciousness strengthens.

However this achievement can be lost:

2:67. The reason of man who yields to the pressure of passions gets carried away like a ship carried away by a storm.

2:63. Because of anger the perception gets completely distorted. The distortion of perception causes the loss of memory (about one’s own achievements). And the loss of memory leads to the loss of the energy of the consciousness. By losing the energy of the consciousness, man degrades.