36. Steady Your Intelligence, Go Beyond Opposites (5.20-5.29)

Kṛṣṇa explains the characteristics of the Supreme. He says that one who is of steady intelligence, sthira buddhir asammūḍho; one who does not get caught in the play of opposing emotions like pleasure and pain, happiness and misery, is truly not deluded and is established in the truth, in the Supreme, brahma-vid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ (5.20). He is Supreme himself.

This is actually a sūtra, a technique that Kṛṣṇa gives. If we put our attention neither on pleasure nor on pain, but between the two, we actually go beyond both. Instead of trying to hold onto pleasure or running away from pain, just be with it, just witness it. Using this technique, we can transcend this nature of the mind.

Listen. Karma is nothing but unfulfilled desire that makes us repeat the same experience again and again, simply because we do not have the intelligence to enter into that experience with complete awareness.

Once we experience the situation with awareness and complete with it, we will not be the doer, the deed or the doing. We will transcend all three; we will transcend karma. We will be Supreme.

Kṛṣṇa tells us to turn inwards. Move away from your senses, move into your Source, He says. When we are situated in the core of our being, we are not shaken by the emotions at the periphery. The happiness arises from our very being. It is eternal bliss because it cannot be stopped by any external agent, thus says Kṛṣṇa—sukham akṣayam aśnute (5.21).

Kṛṣṇa says that sensory pleasures are bound to end; they do not last. We always attach our happiness to something external to us. If these things are taken away from us, we are left with sadness. The event and the person do not cause happiness and sorrow. It is caused by our sensory perception and by the judgment based on this perception.

Just Be Happy From Within

Here is a beautiful sūtra, a technique from Kṛṣṇa to enter into the Supreme Consciousness: 'Just be happy, restful and complete from within', says Kṛṣṇa, 'yo'ntaḥ sukho antar-ārāmas tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ (5.24).'

Just be happy from within. Let your smile be a deep expression of the love in your being. When you are in the space of completion with full enthusiasm, you are in a state of bliss. The self-realized one is complete, powerful, active and happy because he is completely in the present moment, living in Reality.

Why To Feel Responsible?

Kṛṣṇa says: When we are tuned fully inwards, we no longer have any attachment to what happens outside; we are one with the All, the Existence, and we have transcended all karma. We are then in brahma nirvāṇa—the ultimate liberation, one with Existence.

When we feel genuine love for others, we feel responsible for everyone, and we take up more responsibility. With responsibility, we harness the power of feeling. Responsibility can happen to you only after completion**.** I'll now tell you why you need to feel responsibility. Listen. Whatever happens in and around you—you are the Source! That is why you need to take responsibility.

Live this principle of responsibility. Then you will understand that all your decisions will be out of the experience—'I am the Source.' Only when we go beyond the incompletions of the mind, beyond duality, we see the absolute oneness and synchronicity of the entire Existence and we start Living Advaita.

Let you learn the science of how to connect yourself with the Divine energy, how to be driven by the Divine Consciousness. Let you live all your possibilities. Let you function through the Eternal Consciousness.