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necessary for the purpose at the time. Really they were the very conditions which an abhyasi passes through during the course of his march. The process brought Arjuna instantly to a higher state of spiritual Consciousness and
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purged out the feeling of undue attachment from his heart.
नो मोहः िृ तला सादायातु । ितोऽि गतसहे ः किरे वचनं तव॥
Nasto mohah smrtir labdha Tvatprasadan maya cyuta Sthito smi gatasamdehah Karisye vacanam tava (18-73)
Arjuna spake: - “Dispelled is my delusion; regained by me through Thy favour is the memory, O Acyuta. I stand here firm and freed of doubt, and will do Thy bidding.”
This can as well be possible today if a personality of that calibre is there. But, as it is too commonly witnessed, people hear and recite Srimad Bhagavad Gita for the whole life without taking in the least effect thereof. None has so far ever turned round like Arjuna in spite of hearing the Srimad Bhagavad Gita for years together. The reason is that those who recite to others are not capable of transmitting its truth into their hearts, on account of which no effect is produced upon the hearers. For that purpose it is necessary that the reciter must have a practical approach up to the conditions related therein, and should possess a strong will and the spiritual force necessary for making his voice vibrant so as to carry the effect of the sound right into the hearts of the hearers through the process of transmission. Then alone can its recitation be useful to the hearers.
As for the teachings of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, we are ever being told by teachers and preachers of high rank
5 See article published by Imperience in the Inaugural issue 2002 on Pranahuti.