Your Space Of Completion Is KṛṣṇA.

Kṛṣṇa says that spiritual practice, that is the state of satva, is difficult in the beginning, and it is like poison; however, it becomes life-giving nectar in the end.

Sensual pleasures born out of rajas, on the other hand, seem like nectar in the beginning but become poisonous. In the tamasic state, Kṛṣṇa says, one is deluded as if in sleep, laziness and illusion. Every human is in one state or another.

Not merely humans, even the celestials who are supposedly more evolved are in the same mode. No one can escape the effect of the guṇas, the attributes of Nature. Please understand, the biggest asset a man can acquire is the space of completion. I am so happy I am getting that wealth for my Gurukul kids. The biggest asset for any man, the best thing a human being can have in his life is completion, the space of completion.

We are behind our sensory pleasures now. When we are in the rājasic mode, only sensory pleasures of the body matter. In the tamasic mode, we don't even know we are in deep ignorance. The sensory organs are powerful. They are our windows to the external world. They are trained to run away from pain and chase pleasure.

Bodily pleasure gives mental pleasure and therefore emotional satisfaction. Once we experience the mental pleasure, we constantly rewind and replay that pleasure. Our past drives our future. Attachments and expectations drive our actions.

We try to keep on experiencing pain and pleasure alternately. Either way it is only an illusion. If you lead your life with completion, you won't get caught in the illusions of attachment and expectations driving your actions. Kaṭhopaniṣad says, 'The good and the pleasant approach man. The wise examines both and discriminates between them. The wise prefers the good to the pleasant. But the foolish man chooses the pleasant through love of bodily pleasure.

If you are given the option of 'right or pleasant', 'right thing, good thing or very pleasant, convenient and happy thing', always choose the 'right thing', not the 'pleasant' one, not the convenient one.'

When you choose the pleasant, your destruction is inevitable. Your Space of Completion is Kṛṣṇa Look for the right, not for light. Your whole life is nothing but Mahābhārat.

The Kauravas' birth, what is it? One child, Duryodhana is born who is unconscious, dead, aborted. So, that was broken into hundred pieces. This means what? When you are born, you are unconscious and you are broken into hundreds of root-patterns, and all hundred grow as demons. It means that all your root-patterns are growing as demons! When you are tired of being a demon, you also encourage some good qualities in you just for a change. Please understand, there is nobody who is hundred percent demon, because being hundred percent demon makes you feel bored.

Otherwise, why should Rāvaṇa do Śiva Puja? You cannot be hundred percent demon or hundred percent saint till you become enlightened. Till you become an enlightened soul, both sides will be there because you need choice. Life is all about just jumping from one side to another. Choice! Choice! Choice!

A few good patterns which you develop in you just as a choice, as an alternative, those few good patterns are the Pānḍavas. The space of completion which you have inside you, which cannot be destroyed by any root pattern is Kṛṣṇa.

Your whole life is a Mahābhārat. Then, when your weight becomes too much for your own body, when Bhū Devī, the Earth Goddess, is unable to hold the weight, Kṛṣṇa comes and reduces the bhūbhāra, the weight of the Earth. It means that when your incompletions become too much even for yourself, Kṛṣṇa comes and destroys all your incompletions.

Kṛṣṇa describes the tāmasic person with great insight. He does not use the word poison in describing the state of such a person. A tāmasic person is like a drug addict, He says. At least a rājasic person enjoys the experience now and suffers later. A tāmasic person has no enjoyment. He suffers without knowing that he is suffering. His delusion is so deep. That is why he passes his suffering on to others. That is how ignorant people who rise to become leaders act.

• ❖ What does Krishna tell about spiritual practice here?
• ❖ Who can escape the effect of the gunas?
• ❖ What is the greatest asset a man can have?
• ❖ What happens to us until we become enlightened?
• ❖ Who does Krishna compare the few good patterns inside of us to?
• ❖ What happens when your weight/incompletions become too heavy for your own body?
• ❖ What does Krishna compare a tamasic person to?

Helping students distinguish between what is right and what is pleasant. -Helping students understand how the demonic side comes from unconsciousness and rootpatterns. -Helping students understand and recognize the tamasic state.

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After spending a few minutes explaining about how root-patterns operate and grow, tell children to visually represent how root-patterns grow as demons. Then, ask them to bring awareness to moments in their life where they have encouraged their demonic side and moments where they have chosen the other side by giving 1 real-life example for each.

When you are born, you are unconscious and you are broken into hundreds of rootpatterns, and all hundred grow as demons. It means that all your root- patterns are growing as demons! When you are tired of being a demon, you also encourage some good qualities in you just for a change. You cannot be hundred percent demon or hundred percent saint till you become enlightened. Till you become an enlightened soul, both sides will be there because you need choice. Life is all about just jumping from one side to another.

❖ Hindu festive clothes, Peacock feathers, flutes (what Krishna would be wearing or holding)

Today, tell the students that they will be dressing as Kṛṣṇa. Then, tell them to walk around imbibing the space of Kṛṣṇa, the space of completion. Tell them to perform every action as Kṛṣṇa would for the next 21 minutes. Every breath is Kṛṣṇa's breath, every word is Kṛṣṇa's word, every action is Kṛṣṇa's action. At the end of 21 minutes, ask the children to come back and to share about their experience of being Kṛṣṇa.

Did they feel the space of completion within themselves during those 21 minutes? Ask them how they can know whether they are in a space of completion or not while doing day-to-day activities.

The space of completion which you have inside you, which cannot be destroyed by any root pattern is Kṛṣṇa.

Ask students to engage in a discussion about how to discriminate between right and pleasant. Then, ask them to write a short essay about the following two points:

• 1. Identify areas in their lives where they have chosen what is pleasant over what is right and vice-versa and encourage them to share about their experience in both cases.
• 2. What kind of suffering tamasic people go through and how it makes them dangerous for others.

Kṛṣṇa says that spiritual practice, that is the state of satva, is difficult in the beginning, and it is like poison; however, it becomes life-giving nectar in the end.