INTRODUCTION🔗

By repeating the truth again and again, Kṛṣṇa tries to create the right inner space of completion in Arjuna. Please understand why Kṛṣṇa repeats Himself. He literally uses the same words again and again. Why? Why should Kṛṣṇa repeat? Kṛṣṇa is a Master who is result-oriented. He persists with what He wants. He is the embodiment of Enriching, which is the constitution of life. His whole life is a play from the space of enriching. He is radiating the power of not giving-up on people with His uncompromising compassion. He is not easily satisfied with the attitude, 'I said whatever I had to say; whether he wants to listen or not is up to him.' No! Kṛṣṇa takes the responsibility to make Arjuna responsible.

INNER SPACE

Any transmission of knowledge, energy or experience happens between us only when you give your listening! In the Upaniṣads, it is told that when the young seeker Śvetaketu was initiated by his Guru, his Guru said to him only nine times, ‘Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi!’ (You are That!) Śvetaketu became enlightened just by hearing those words! Then how come you don’t become enlightened even if you listen to ‘Tat Tvam Asi!’ nine thousand times? You have to be carrying the right inner space! Listen. On the rock, seed cannot sprout as a tree.

Instead of the real source of joy, you will just go around and try to taste everything. Your mind needs to be a little tired of roaming around, only then will it look in and decide to find and destroy the root patterns and create the fertile ground of the right space. Whether we believe it or not, man by nature is a mechanism.

Not only at the body level, he is a mechanism even at the level of the mind. At most, we can call it a bio-mechanism, yet he is still a mechanism. He works based on memories, the root patterns or what we call mūla vāsanā in Saṃskṛit. If you have a certain pattern in you as a compulsive disorder, it is a bio-memory. It is just a dead memory. If you get frightened,

You will run away. If you have some thoughts or doubts that a person doesn't love you, that person doesn't care for you, all other thoughts will immediately wake up, and you will be in depression. Please understand, memories which stay in you and make you continuously respond unconsciously in the same pattern again and again, is bio- memory. If you learn the essence of the lessons you need to catch from the bio-memory, and live spontaneously based on that essence, it becomes bio-energy.

For example, you see a snake and you know that you may die if the snake bites. This situation can become a bio-memory in you— that even if you see the photograph of a snake, you may step back. I have seen people who don't even touch a snake's photo on the TV screen or computer screen! This is bio-memory. See, I am not saying that you should not have bio-memory of snake fear or go and catch the snake! No! If you learn just the intelligence from that incident, you are clear that snake bite can lead to death, so you don't go near the snake, but you don't have the compulsive patterns related to snakes and snake fear. You only have the intelligence. Then, that same thing becomes bio-energy.

Understand, in every situation, if you catch bio-memory, you will miss the bio- energy. If you function on just bio-memories, you are a bound soul. You are a baddha jīva, entangled soul. Living in bondage! Not only that, when you are living here, you also accumulate more and more muscle-memory. All the patterns you accumulate and continue to accumulate are muscle-memory

So do not know the reasons for the act you performed! Muscle-memory is the memory you accumulate in this janma (life time). Bio-memory is the memory you bring from the past births. Even in this birth, the muscle-memory can become bio-memory. When you psychologically collapse, with whatever ideas you elevate yourself and stand up, those ideas will become bio-memory in you, even though you accumulated them in this body

Does God exist? Many religious rituals are designed to build the right muscle-memory and bio-memory in us. Going to a temple or a satsang (spiritual gathering) reinforces our desire to move forward spiritually. They create the right space— the environment, the mood for the right decision to happen. These actions cannot liberate or enlighten us.

Kṛṣṇa is the first Master who showed how to achieve Enlightenment. He showed the exact Science of Enlightenment. We can experience it through our conscious decision to create the space of completion. He says one can attain it, meaning that anybody can attain it. It means that when you understand the inner space of Enlightened beings, without even missing a single step, now you know the method to reach that space. Personality of the enlightened being is not a person, it is personification.

When you grasp the personality of an enlightened being, suddenly you know why you are the way you are, why you behave the way you behave. You know all the possible confusions and incompletions. And you will see, you will simply know the methodology to experience completion, pūrṇatva.

In Saṁskṛit, Śiva means ‘causeless auspiciousness’. The present is the most auspicious; whatever happens in the present is auspicious. We should develop the attitude of accepting what happens in the present as auspicious.

Understand, the impact of the past enters as a perverted inadequate cognition in your present and destroys your future. Listen! Your inner space experiences the past and future in the same language, in the same way.

Incidents, your perceptions and your self-assessments are the pillars on which your past is built. If you complete yourself now, if you complete your perception and self-assessments, sixty percent of your past will be burnt! So, your past will lose its power over you.

The Great ‘why’ Kṛṣṇa is trying to answer philosophical questions that can never really be answered: How is the whole Universe created? If everything is God, why is the Universe created? How are we born? Whoever tried to answer these questions just created another philosophy.

When it comes to Cosmic questions, unless you discover your answer, you will never be in peace. ‘Why’ related to the outer world can be answered by the law of the land or the outer world science. But all the ‘whys’ related to cosmic law, all the ‘whys’ related to life can be answered only by yourself by discovering it

The religion you discover is your religion, not the religion you are born in, is your religion. Answer you discover is your answer! For this great 'why' you have to discover an answer. If you accept my answer for 'why', you will be living for my answer. At the most, my answer should be an inspiration for you to find out the answer for 'why'. Kṛṣṇa tries to answer these questions as an inspiration for Arjuna to find his own answer for his 'why'.

However, this answer is not the ultimate Truth. He says, 'Please wait until the teachings are over.' Normally when we don't receive an answer for our philosophical question,

For the sake of inspiration or just for the sake of giving him an understanding, Kṛṣṇa gives an answer. Listen, Kṛṣṇa’s words can be fully understood only when we experience the consciousness of Kṛṣṇa. Until then, it is just a cognition. Even if it is a cognition, it is okay. Proceed with this new cognition into the next chapters, into the next verse.

Suddenly, when you see the result, we will understand that whatever you have cognized is the truth. Kṛṣṇa makes this declaration so that you can understand the truth. You can discover the root cause based on which you cognize your whole life, based on which your consciousness functions.

❖ Why does Krishna repeat the same words and ideas again and again?

❖ How does one experience his/her inner space?

❖ What is the right inner space?

❖ What is bio memory, muscle memory and bio energy?

DRAW PARAMASHIVA

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE

Draw a painting depicting "Shiva" meaning "causeless auspiciousness"

INFERENCE

Śiva is the Lord of the present. He is the Master of the here and now. Śiva is the Rejuvenator, not just the Destroyer. The present always rejuvenates. The present is the most auspicious. We should develop the attitude of accepting what happens in the present as auspicious.

VEDIC CHANTING

MATERIALS NEEDED: Notebook and pen.

PROCEDURE: Let each one of us write down our most favorite Sanskrit chant or mantra along with its meaning. Let us then share it with the rest of the group. Each child should recite his favorite mantra out loud and explain its meaning in his/her own words for the benefit of the rest of the group.

INFERENCE: Vedic Chanting is an oral meditative practice that integrates body, voice, mind, heart and soul. Reciting and listening to Vedic chants creates vibrations that have a positive effect on the bio memory and muscle memory of the orator and the listeners. These vibrations help release pleasure-causing endorphins, stimulate the immune system, and restore holistic health. Additionally they are known to increase learning ability, enhance creativity, sharpen memory and increase the power of concentration in both the reciter and the listener.

PROCEDURE Our topic of discussion is "Philosophical Questions on life can be answered by self discovery only"

CONCLUSION Persons who carry the space of completion, find everything auspicious and transcend creation and dissolution, past and future and become centered in the present. They become a jīvan mukta, and start living enlightenment. Krishna's message is an inspiration, that plants within us a seed of seeking for answers to our philosophical questions, which can only be answered by self discovery.