Greed And Fear Destroy Your Consciousness🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

Arjuna is one of the greatest examples of sakha bhāva, friendship relationship between master and disciple. Arjuna is in transition. After the vision, He has moved from sakha bhāva, friendship, to mahā bhāva, an enlightened relationship.

It was because of the intense devotion that Arjuna had for Kṛṣṇa, that Kṛṣṇa gave him the invaluable gift of His divine form.

You are the father of this world, moving and unmoving. You are to be adored by this world. You are the greatest Guru; there is none who exists equal to You. O Being of unequalled power, how then can there be another, superior to You in the three worlds?

Krsna is the source of all beings, the creator of Brahma, who in turn created Prajapati, from whom all beings originated.

Arjuna does not wish to carry that self-doubt and guilt with Kṛṣṇa. With integrity and authenticity, he completes with his guilt, his self-doubt and drops it in front of his friend, Lord and Master saying, ‘Forgive me.’ I tell you, completion with Master is enlightenment! If you just have completion with the Master, nothing else is required!

Arjuna is afraid again. Having seen what he has seen and understanding the unlimitedness of Krsna's form, he remembers that all this while he had treated Krsna like a friend, so casually. Instead of fear, guilt and remorse filed his being. 'I called You by Your caste name, Yadava,' Arjuna cries out, 'I called You, 'Hey friend, Hey Krsna'. I knew not whom I was addressing, whom I was dealing with, please forgive me.' 'How could I have done this? Please forgive me for the love I had for You that made me careless in addressing You. Bear with me; forgive me as a father would a son, a lover his beloved and a friend, his mate.

Since nothing happened year after year and he was getting old, the devotee gave Siva an ultimatum, ‘Either you appear before me, or I will seek an alternative. Before I die I need to have the Lord’s darsan, so that I may be liberated.’ Siva still made no appearance. After a few days the devotee bought and installed an idol of Visnu at his altar, replacing Siva. But he did not have the heart to throw Siva away, and merely moved Him to one corner, telling Him, ‘See, I waited all this while patiently; all this is Your fault.’

The next morning, he lit incense as usual and placed it before the altar, this time in front of the idol of Visnu. To his irritation he found that the incense smoke was drifting towards the corner where he had cast out Siva. 'You need no incense!' he cried out, and covered the nose of the idol to prevent it from smelling the incense. The next moment he felt Siva standing in front of him, smiling.

The devotee was overcome with deep guilt and overwhelming emotion. 'Lord!' he cried, 'All these years I prayed to You without fail and You never appeared to me. Today, when I cast You out and covered Your nose You gave me darsan. Why?'

Siva said: 'It is only today that I became real to you, when you covered My nose. That is why I came to you now.' As his friend, Krsna was the reality to Arjuna.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. White sheet Spray painting brush Poster colors Water, picture related to guilt

PROCEDURE

Encourage children to draw anything holding the pen or pencil between their toes. Ask them how they felt during the art project. Tell them they have accomplished a difficult task by stretching themselves

INFERENCE

If the spray painting is done excessively on the sheet we cannot see the actual picture itself. Similarly guilt in the long run destroys our originality.

SPEAK A LIE AND DO A TEST

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE: Make the children sit in a circle. Use this activity to help the children understand guilt. Explain clearly to the children that we are playing a game. In this game, each child has to utter a few things, some of which are lies and some are truths. The other children have to identify when a lie is being told by observing the facial expression of the child who is lying. All children can take turns and play this game

INFERENCE: When we are lying, our facial expression will show it clearly. When we do something which leads to guilt we cannot hide it.

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

Many of you will have weak points in you like you are not good at something and others might tease you and you may fall for that. You may be short tempered. You may cry for anything even if it is small. It can be as small as you don't know how to brush your teeth properly. Now this might be something which is becoming an incompletion in you again. So what you do is, go in front of the group and declare that grey area in you. You may be thinking that others will not know that you have such a grey area, but the fact is that by your actions, the way you speak, the way you present yourself, people around you will know that you are like that. But when you go and declare that in front of the group , you will know that there is nothing to be guilty about and it just needs some completion.

here is no greater sin than carrying such guilt. What we did was not sinful; to carry the guilt with us is sinful. Arjuna is demonstrating to the rest of us the power of guilt; in this case, guilt that seems to arise from the deepest of love. In one sense he does not wish to carry that guilt with him. He drops it in front of his friend, Lord and master saying, 'Forgive me.'

BOOK XI, VOLUME XII