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12. Only a Complete Being can relax

# **Only a Complete Being can relax**

The more you run, the more titles you receive. You are called a 'multi- dimensional personality.' Only a person who is complete in himself, who rests in himself, who experiences inaction in action can be multidimensional. Only a Kṛṣṇa, a complete being can be a multidimensional personality.

Life is purposeless. Whatever you think of as the goal of your life, even if it were fulfilled, you will only look for the next goal. There is always discontentment, incompletion. With Completion starts Life. Otherwise you are running out of compulsion.

Coming to terms with reality is Completion. Reality should not make you powerless. Arjuna is being inauthentic by shifting responsibility away from him, not facing his own reality. Kṛṣṇa initiates him into the science of authentic action to powerfully take responsibility for his highest reality and be a complete, blissful being.

To Act Or Not To Act (3.1-3.4)

Your whole life is purposeless, whether it is material or spiritual life. The so-called goals in material life or spiritual life continuously make you feel that you are not good enough.

A man who can't sit with himself misses one of the major dimensions of his being. The moment you accept the beauty of purposelessness, you will realize the meaning of living.

Kṛṣna says, let your inner space not be contaminated by the purpose of life. When I say inner space, I mean your mind and how you feel about yourself, about things and life inside you. He says, 'Let your inner space not be disturbed or filled with purposes or incompletions.'

By nature, your inner space is the space of completion, it is filled with energy, blissful energy. The more you empty yourself of goals or incompletions, the more the space for completion and bliss fills you.

Let your inner space be empty. Of course then, it will never be empty. It will be filled with completion, pūrṇatva. It will be filled with bliss! That is what Kṛṣṇa means by saying, 'Don't be attached to results.'