Finding Peace in the Chaos

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji gives an inspiring and beautiful message, emphasizing the teachings of the BhagavadGita, during a recent Peace in the Chaos Satsang in London.

She shares, “Mana eva manushyanam karanam bandha-mokshayoh, The chaos from which we suffer is in our own minds. The answer is not about finding peace somewhere outside, but removing the obstacles to it within our own minds.” She continued by explaining that “Your thoughts are tickets to your destination. If you get on a thought train of jealousy, anger, judgement or grudges then your destination will be misery. No one buys a plane ticket or train ticket to a destination they don’t want to go. However, in our minds we jump onto thought trains to the chaos of despair, pain and misery and then wonder how we got there. We have to remember that jaise beetar vaise bahar (as is the inner world, so is the outer world), not vice versa. We have to pull the reins of our life out of the hands of the people and the situations around us to our self, so that our inner state of peace can then manifest into our outer state of peace and bring peace to all those we meet and ultimately to the world.”