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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

he instinct to survive arises out of fear, from the svādiṣṭhāna cakra (fear energy center in your body), and the instinct to possess comes out of greed, from the mūlādhāra cakra (greed energy center in your body).

Whatever You are is divine energy.

It is only your fear that separates you from cosmic consciousness.

yathā nadīnām̄ bahavo'mbuvegāḥ samudram evābhimukhā dravanti | tathā tavāmī naralokavīrā viśanti vaktrāṇy abhivijvalanti

Even as many torrents of rivers flow towards the ocean, so too these warriors in the world of men enter Your flaming mouths

When we drop the instinct to survive, we become Krsna; we exist forever. We become Bhagavan, the universal consciousness.

In these verses Arjuna expresses his discomfort. Arjuna had earlier said that he beheld all the celestial beings in the cosmic vision of Krsna. Then he started feeling disturbed by the terrifying form that this vision changed into. From the high, when his hair stood on end, he slowly comes down. From this verse we should say, ‘Arjuna uvaca!’ meaning Arjuna says... It is no longer the divine state that Arjuna talks from. The moment he started feeling fear he descended to his normal state. You should understand that it is only your fear that separates you from cosmic consciousness.

There are two things that make you a human - the instinct to possess and the instinct to survive. The instinct to survive arises out of fear, from the Svadishtana chakra (fear energy center in your body), and the instinct to possess comes out of greed, from the Muladhara chakra (sex energy center in your body).

Here the instinct to survive has appeared and he has become Arjuna, the man. We do not understand that when we drop the instinct to survive, we become Krsna; we exist forever. We become Bhagavan, the universal consciousness. But most often, we hold onto the instinct to survive. Now Arjuna slowly comes down and becomes Arjuna, the man.

Arjuna exclaims, ‘I see all the sons of Dhrtarastra, along with their allied kings, Bhisma, Drona, Karna, and other chief soldiers rushing into Your fearful mouths. I see some trapped with their heads smashed between Your teeth, ground into nothing.’ He describes the whole scene. He sees the heavy losses on both sides; his own side, his warriors and generals, but even heavier losses on the other side, including Bhisma who is invincible, Drona and Karna who are unconquerable. By inference he sees his own victory in the end. However, this scene does not fill him with peace and comfort. Arjuna is terrified at this vision of destruction. The destruction of those whom he perceives as his mortal enemies leaves him with no comfort.

To understand how fear can create a barrier between us and the Divine.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE Encourage the children to draw and color their favorite pictures, and state that both must be done with their eyes closed. If they say they cannot do this, tell them that everything is a possibility so encourage them to try.

INFERENCE The possibility of “the possibility” gives you a breakthrough in life..

SIT IN A QUITE PLACE FOR MEDETATION

Sit straight, close your eyes Pray intensely to Parabrahma Krishna, the universal consciousness, in whatever name or form you know. Pray to this energy to give a glimpse of his being to you, to give at least a glimpse of experience of what Arjuna experienced, a glimpse of what all the enlightened masters experienced, to you. Inhale and exhale as slowly as possible, as deeply as possible. Inside your head the whole universe is moving, the space in front of you in your inner space, the whole universe is moving! See the sun, moon, all the planets, the whole universe moving in your inner space, visualize intensely, clearly, the whole universe moving in your inner space.

Slowly, relax from the body, be one with universal consciousness, see very clearly you have become one with the universe, you are seeing clearly, the sun, moon, planets, stars, moving. Just disappear into universal consciousness, forget your name, form, profession, gender, country, forget your identity, just see the whole universe intensely. Just see the whole universe moving intensely, all the planets, stars, moon. Just disappear in the universal consciousness, just become nobody, lose your identity, let it disappear in the universal consciousness, experience the bliss, fulfilling bliss in the whole universe. Expand and disappear in the universe. Dissolve into the universal consciousness. Om Shanti, shanti, shanti. Relax.

Meditation given by Nithyananda Paramashivam for sloka 11.28 https://youtu.be/r43caSDo9JE 1:07:03 - 1:27:42

Pray to the universal energy, it responds to your thoughts, don't think your prayer is just dead words. They are living communication, it responds to your thoughts.

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

We are hardly preoccupied with visualizations of our success; we are too busy with negative self fulfilling prophecies because of our past record. Negative patterns serve a vested interest so you keep the negative patterns alive and do not allow life to happen in you. Encourage the children to share to the group about a negative experience or problem that they had before winning. Encourage them to share that even when they had a successful outcome, they first had a negative experience.

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

For example, you had fear before you went on stage and did a successful performance. Or you were nervous before your black belt grading. Or you had an accident at home where you spilled some food and you worried about your parents' responses but they praised you for cleaning up. When you created your past record, you did not have the intelligence of looking into the possibility of the possibility. The possibility of the possibility gives you a breakthrough in life.

It is our constant conflict with Nature that leads to our suffering. Most of the time our actions are driven by instinct, the unconsciousness, where the samskaras reside. It has been designed by Nature to cope with life or death issues. Unfortunately, this system gets misused for all other mundane issues as well. If we learn to flow with Nature like the reeds in a river, we will always do the right thing.

BOOK XI, VOLUME VIII