Bhagavad Gita
A Walkthrough For Westerners
Jack Hawley
copyrite 2001
The Answer is not to try to restrain your nature but to progressively improve your nature. Examine this thing called 'nature' more closely. One's own senses are major stumbling blocks to spiritual attainment. Senses derive their power from the many likes and dislikes imprinted in the mind (by family, by culture, and by one's actions in this and previous lives.) This deeply embedded, largely unconscious system of likes and dislikes is what gives rise to one's thoughts, deisres, and tendencies. This mental pattern is in lage part what is meant by one's 'nature'.
Arjuna, the best thing to do with these thoughts and deisres is to transmute them into a devotional attitude, a desire for God. When this attitude takes hold, the system of likes and dislikes melts away, which causes the fierce power of the senses to gradually dry up. Desires are enemies when directed outward, but allies when pointed inward, toward divinity.
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