God Is Everything And Everywhere🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

सञ्जय उवाच ।

Krsna explains who He is; that He is the all-devouring time.

arjuna uvāca sthāne hṛṣīkeśa tava prakīrtyā jagat prahṛṣy atyanurajyate ca | rakṣāṃsi bhītāni diśo dravanti sarve namasyanti ca siddhasaṅghāḥ

Arjuna says: O Hṛṣīkeśā, it is but right that the world delights and rejoices in Your praise. Rākṣasas fly in fear in all directions and all hosts of sages bow to You

Krsna extends everywhere and there is no place where He is not present

And why should they not bow to Thee, O great soul, greater than all else, the Creator of even Brahma the Creator. O Lord of Lords, O infinite Being, O Abode of the Universe, You are the imperishable, that which is beyond both seen and the unseen

Arjuna salutes Krsna as the source of all beings, the creator of Brahma, who in turn created Prajapati, from whom all beings originated

You are the primal God, the ancient Being, the supreme refuge of the universe. You are the knower and the One to be known. You are the supreme abode. O Being of infinite forms, by You alone is the universe pervaded

The universe is divided into many parts such as the sun, moon, earth, planets and other bodies in space. Here he sees all of them as one form.

The primal energy that the master is, has to be experienced in whatever manner it is presented, without expectations and fears.

In this divine vision granted to Arjuna the whole existed with the part with no separation, no discontinuity. The whole was part and the part was whole

Arjuna now reaches the third stage of his perception of Krsna's cosmic form. In the first stage, Arjuna's expectations of the glorious universal form of Krsna were fulfilled. He saw Krsna the way He expected: with His crown, discus and mace, with Brahma rising on a lotus flower from Visnu's navel. Next, as he was getting used to the enormity of the vision that he beheld, Arjuna found this form replaced by a terrible, all-devouring form of Krsna that filled Arjuna with fear. Arjuna cries out: 'Who are you? Why are you here?' Krsna explains who He is; that He is the all-devouring time.

Finally, recovering from the primal fear that had overcome him a few moments ago, Arjuna surrenders himself to Krsna. At this stage, Arjuna understands who Krsna is. He understands what Krsna's purpose is. Arjuna's devotion is at its peak. He salutes Krsna as the source of all beings, the creator of Brahma, who in turn created Prajapati, from whom all beings originated. He salutes Krsna as the elements of Nature. Since Krsna extends everywhere and there is no place where He is not present, Arjuna salutes Him in all directions. Arjuna now truly appreciates the unfathomable magnitude of Krsna

To cognize the form and formless of the divine in all dimensions.

• How has Arjuna's perception or understanding of Krsna shifted? • How does Arjuna feel about Krsna at this stage? • Using your knowledge from the previous lessons and what is revealed now, who do you think Krsna is?

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE

Draw by using the friend's description Encourage the children to sit in pairs. One child starts to draw the picture using the description provided by their friend. Then the other friend can draw the picture by using the description provided by their partner.

INFERENCE

Connect them to the fact, when you listen, just by listening you will transform the people

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Encourage the children to sit in a circle. An adult will do a clapping pattern and the children will listen to the clapping pattern and repeat it. Now the adult does a different pattern and the children will follow it. Start with short patterns then try longer ones.

PROCEDURE: Make a picture collage on a chart paper of all the things that have withstood the test of time, for example: the Pyramids of Giza, Ajanta Ellora, sanskrit etc. Take color print out of pictures of these items and paste them on to the chart. Use color pens to add a title, captions, slogans, border etc.

INFERENCE: Connect them to the fact, when you listen, just by listening you will transform the people

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

Discuss the power of the 4 silences and how it can help you connect deeply with the divine consciousness within you. Silence is something which is very important in our life. All the time we keep chatting some or the other thing and think it is great. But the thing is that it is wasting our energy. Speaking useless things and chatting is like a lifestyle for all of us, but there is really no need for us to speak at all.

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

When you start living in integrity, the words which you use will drastically reduce , because you will use the words only which are really required and all the words which you speak will become reality. So silence is one of the basic things which you need to live in integrity.

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

There are 4 types of silence:-

INFERENCE When you follow verbal silence, all the other states of silences will follow, leading you to a deep listening which is the basic quality for you to become god.

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

When Krsna speaks of destroying and wiping out the world, He is talking about the destruction of the illusory physical and material world. He is the destroyer of fantasies, He is the destroyer of identities, He is the destroyer of egos, and He is the destroyer of all that is unreal. It is important to understand what Krsna means in these words. As the supreme consciousness, He too is the energy of Siva, the Rejuvenator. Siva is not the Destroyer as He is made out to be. He recreates by destroying. There can be no life without death. Krsna is the source of all beings, the creator of Brahma, who in turn created Prajapati, from whom all beings originated. He is the elements of nature, he extends everywhere and there is no place where He is not present

BOOK XI, VOLUME XI