INTRODUCTION🔗

Here Kṛṣṇa gives us a technique. As of now, we are like 18-carat gold, copper and gold mixed together. When we repeatedly put the 18-carat gold into the fire of witnessing consciousness, eventually it becomes 22-carat gold. If we continue to put that gold into the fire, the 22-carat gold becomes pure 24-carat gold. In the same way, if we put ourselves into the fire of witnessing consciousness, we become purified to a certain extent. Again and again, if we constantly put ourselves into this fire of witnessing consciousness, our inner space eventually becomes completely pure, like 24-carat gold.

The essence of all religions and all spirituality, the whole thing is contained in this single verse that Kṛṣṇa presents here. Kṛṣṇa presents the master key that opens all locks. Witnessing the body and the mind, witnessing your being. Witnessing is the master key If we can enter the witnessing technique and experience the witnessing space of completion for at least a few minutes, we will get a taste of it. However much we hear about witnessing, however much we talk about witnessing or however much we analyze the art of witnessing, unless we experience it ourselves, it is of no use. You must test it on yourself.

You must test it with your being. Reading or listening will not transform you. Reading or listening is like reading the menu and leaving the restaurant without tasting the food on the menu! If you listen to what I say without testing, it is like going away from a restaurant without eating. So now since we have read the menu card, it is time to taste the preparation.

Kṛṣṇa goes one step further. All along He told us how to cleanse our inner space and how to realize the Divine consciousness within. Now, in the last verse He says that one who does so attains liberation, regardless of his present position, sarvathā vartamāno 'pi na sa bhūyo 'bhijāyate (13.24).

Every being is moving towards the Divine, whether or not the being is aware of it. We take on this body to fulfill certain desires. If we truly put our energies into dissolving these desires, we have no reason to take another birth to fulfill these desires. The incompletion happens when we start to lead somebody else’s life and forget we are here to live our desires and not others' desires. We constantly borrow other people’s desires and accumulate them in us.

© 2020 Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. All Rights Reserved Then, before we start realizing our true nature, it becomes time to leave this body. We take with us the entire baggage of unfulfilled desires and take another body again. The universe again and again tries to help us dissolve our desires so that we become free of them. But we resist by not feeling responsible for what happens within and around us.

Kṛṣṇa says that an understanding of kṣetra or prakṛti straightaway liberates us. We are caught up in pursuing sense pleasures and accumulating desires as long as we associate ourselves with this body. The minute we understand that we are beyond the body and mind, we suddenly realize, ‘What stupidity to run in this rat race!

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You go on believing that because you are seeing from the time of your birth, seeing is hardware of you like the eyes. You don't separate eyes and seeing, you don't separate ears and hearing, you don't separate tongue and tasting. You don't separate kṣetra and kṣetrajña, the one watching the kṣetra. You think that if it is there, it is there, which is not the truth. Cognition is changeable. Cognition is transformable. With this clarity that the cognition is transformable, now decide and be liberated.

TECHNIQUE FOR SPONTANEOUS COMPLETION

Completion does not mean blindly accepting everything that happens in your life, in the kṣetra. It simply means not resisting life as it happens to us. The root of all our incompletions is the idea we carry — Life should not be this way.

That is why we spend our whole life asking, 'Why, why, why? Why is life so bad? Why did this happen to me? Why do bad things happen to good people?'

Spontaneous completion or instant completion means simply dropping the wrong understanding that is creating conflict for you in a particular situation.

To understand the witnessing

technique and the technique for

spontaneous completion Help

children understand that our

cognition is transformable

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FIRE PURIFIES

Draw the process of how gold is put in fire and comes out more pure.

As of now, we are like 18-carat gold, copper and gold mixed together. Again and again, if we constantly put ourselves into this fire of witnessing consciousness, our inner space eventually becomes completely pure, like 24-carat gold.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

PROCEDURE:

Have the children sit in a circle. The acharya reads out the example cognitions given below, and the children respond with examples of a transformed cognition. Help the children come up with at least 3 alternative cognitions. Encourage them to listen well to the alternative cognitions that others are giving.

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INFERENCE

Understand, your cognition is changeable, transformable is the first cognition you need. People who immediately understand that cognition is changeable and awaken, are people who have become spontaneously enlightened, they have instant Enlightenment.

Topic Of Discussion:

Hold Vaakyartha Sadhas on the difference between asking

Conclusion:

When you act out of completion, you are empowered to resolve any conflict that happens inside you or outside you.

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BHAGAVAD GITA BOOK XIII, VOLUME VIII

Many People, Many Paths

Authored by THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM