INTRODUCTION🔗

Do not worry about victory or defeat. If you are defeated and slain you will ascend to heaven. If you are victorious, you will enjoy material benefits in this world itself.

Therefore, O Kaunteya, fight as it is your responsibility as a kṣatriya.’ Kṛṣṇa says to treat pain and pleasure, gain and loss, victory and defeat all the same. He says to fight without worrying about the outcome. To fight is your responsibility. You shall incur no sin.

When the Paramātma—supreme Soul says this, it means that Arjuna does not have to worry about right and wrong, about sin or merit. Isn’t fighting, isn’t killing people a sin, you may ask. Then why is it that Kṛṣṇa encourages Arjuna, not merely encourages, but actually forces Arjuna to fight and kill? What is the operative logic here, you may ask.

There is no logic. Kṛṣṇa’s exhortation is beyond human rationale. It is not what you do that matters; it is who you are being that matters. It is your space that matters. Whether you are being complete or incomplete matters. An Enlightened Master can do no wrong even if he kills, because when he kills, it would be with completion, not with compulsion for personal benefit. On the other hand, any average person with incompletions, even while doing an act of kindness, he may be doing something wrong.

If what you do is motivated by patterns of fear and greed, pain and pleasure, victory and defeat, you can do nothing right. Whatever you do for gain is sinful. Understand, if the gap between who you are and who you want to be is without responsibility, it is greed. If it is with responsibility, it is possibility! When there is no responsibility-bridge, it is greed. When you are building the responsibility-bridge to achieve what you want to be, then it becomes a possibility; it is no more greed!

Kṛṣṇa is enriching Arjuna with the bridge of responsibility to expand Arjuna's shrinking identity as a kṣatriya. Even Śrī Rāma had to build the bridge to reach Sītā! When you add responsibility to greed, the gap suddenly reduces. The gap reduces drastically! Responsibility infused into thinking removes the agitation and disconnection with you.

Feeling responsible for the Whole and declaring to live by your feeling is responsible declaration, known in Hindu spiritual practice as nididhyāsana.

Responsible declaration unlocks the power of feeling, prema śakti in you.

Understand the science of feeling. You can feel anything as joy or anything as pain—it is your freedom! Even the greatest achievement can bring pain to you, and even the worst experience can be a joyful learning. You have the ability to decide how you want to feel!

Listen: whenever you feel empowered, you are joyful. Whenever you feel powerless, you experience suffering. All your suffering pain, anger, guilt, fear, jealousy, frustration is nothing but powerlessness expressing in different ways! When you feel responsible for everything that happens in your life, you will feel that everything is joyful—because nothing can make you powerless. So, empower yourself with responsibility and unlock the power of feeling.

By unlocking the power of feeling, you will always act from a space of power and completion and start focusing on the solution, not the problem; without worrying about its outcome. As Kṛṣṇa says, you will begin holding success and failure, pain and pleasure the same and just fulfill your responsible declaration. With responsibility, your inner space expands and opens up new possibilities and you gain higher control of your life.

Ultimately, you raise yourself to the next level of success and evolve into a new being. In these verses, Kṛṣṇa is trying to bring Arjuna out of his root pattern, his dilemma, which has obscured his normally clear vision. Kṛṣṇa is trying to get Arjuna to transcend his conditioned actions based on fear and greed relating to the killing of his kinsmen, his svajanam. He is getting him to act out of completion, out of his svadharmam, without worrying about the outcome.

PENCIL SKETCH

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PROCEDURE

Kids can draw a picture outline, using pencil. Using a line drawing pen fill the picture. Ask the kids to erase the pencil outline, the lines inside the picture will show up the image. Kids can learn to draw a line without using a scale. If it is a light shade draw less line, if it is a dark shade then draw more lines. In this line drawing, kids can understand how to use lines, to show light and dark shades.

Connect them to the concept as to how the line transforms into a figure. Similarly transformation is a happening, you have to decide that it should happen. You have the power to decide for transformation to happen in you.

❖ 2 Magnets ❖ piece of paper piece of metal

Talk about: What is energy? We have discussed positive and negative emotions and we know that every second of every day we have a choice between doing something good or bad. But, if you are always thinking positive, you will automatically give off positive energy because it is coming from inside! Show the two magnets; explain the force that draws the other magnet to it.

Question: Have you ever noticed how happy and joyful people have a lot of friends? A happy face makes people feel welcome, they want to be near you because it makes them happy, and others will be drawn to you like a magnet. We have a magnet as well, in our inner space. When we are filled with positive energy we attract more positive things, right people and right choices.

MATERIALS NEEDED: Pen or pencil paper

EXPLANATION: Sit in silence for 11 minutes and provide listening to your inner space. After 11 minutes, open your eyes and write down everything that comes up in your inner space. Discuss about what has come up and how you felt during and after the meditation

CONCLUSION: Listening is life. Answers penetrate the being only when the being is in the space of listening. Understanding the divinity of Kṛṣṇa is a step to intranalysing and living one's own divinity

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