BG Chapter2-11

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 64 to 72
1. Summary on Sthita-prajña - 4 questions, how to understand these deep questions
2. Went over Verse 64 to 72
3. Session on Mantra meditation, watched a short video, had a session on how to chant properly, mood & technique
Section 64-62: Answers how a Sthita-prajña man stands - i.e. interact with sense objects, because one has to interact with sense objects if one is in material world. Summary is -
One need to establish the relationship with Lord by serving him, that leads to spiritual intelligence helping one in avoiding the situation that may cause the sense to get pulled in Maya.
One doesn't get bothered by incessant flow of desires and learns to manage it by ignoring or converting the material desire into the desire for serving Krishna
In the worst case, Krishna helps by his unlimited mercy on us
TEXT 64: But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord.
TEXT 65: For one thus satisfied [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness], the threefold miseries of material existence exist no longer; in such satisfied consciousness, one’s intelligence is soon well established.
TEXT 66: One who is not connected with the Supreme [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness] can have neither transcendental intelligence nor a steady mind, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peace?
TEXT 67: As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the roaming senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man’s intelligence.
TEXT 68: Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence.
TEXT 69: What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.
TEXT 70: A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires - that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still - can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires.
TEXT 71: A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego - he alone can attain real peace.
TEXT 72: That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God.