INTRODUCTION🔗

Each disciple can have his own path. This is what Kṛṣṇa says. We can attain the ultimate consciousness through different paths. Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna about the paths. He gives alternatives: meditation, yoga, chanting mantra, learning and acquiring knowledge and surrendering to the Cosmos.

Listen. You should know which path is good for you. Lots of people take up a spiritual path without knowing what it is. You can have a starting point but you should find out if you are on the right path. You should not blindly follow someone because someone you know is following that guru or that path.

There are different paths to realize the truth. However, we must understand what our path is. This is where a true Enlightened Master can enrich you. He knows exactly what the path is for you. He corrects you when you are on the wrong path.

At the end of the verse, Kṛṣṇa gives a wonderful technique. He gives the ultimate technique, the technique of surrendering. He says, ‘Surrender the outcome of your actions to Me.’ This is the most effective technique. He talks about it throughout the Gītā.

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Just surrender the fruits of your actions to Him, the Universal Consciousness. Most often, we take responsibility for the outcome of our actions. That is when our tensions and problems start. Just surrender everything to the Cosmic energy of Kṛṣṇa. Once we do, we will feel liberated. We will feel free. This is the easiest path to reach the truth.

Listen. A person need not have any spiritual knowledge to start on a particular path. There is no prerequisite. Even if the person is totally new to spirituality, he can follow a spiritual path. Only a cognitive shift must happen.

Please listen! Just because someone has spiritual knowledge, it does not mean that he is actually a seeker. Actually, all they have is intellectual knowledge, not spiritual knowledge. When they speak, they do not speak out of experience. That is the difference between an Enlightened Master and a normal person. When an enlightened master speaks about spirituality, he speaks from his experience of the truth. When a normal person speaks, it is his ego that is speaking.

That is what Kṛṣṇa says. You do not need prior knowledge about spirituality to embark on a path. Even if someone simply tells you about it and you start following a path, it is enough. But be very clear, you should know what you are doing. Don't do anything blindly. In the previous verse, we have talked about it. We should understand what our path is. That's all.

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Prakṛti is the manifest and puruṣa is the unmanifest. Kṣetra is like prakṛti. It is the manifested, that which we can see. Along with what you see, there is something behind its existence. It is puruṣa or the unmanifest, the energy behind the matter, which we do not normally see.

We have seen in the earlier verses that all the millions of stars, planets and other celestial bodies exist in perfect harmony. How are they moving in such order? Look at our solar system. All the planets move in perfect paths. If we think they are rocks, dust or ice, if we think they are simply matter, how is such an order maintained in the Universe? They are not solely matter. There is something behind the existence of that matter.

TECHNIQUE FOR SPONTANEOUS COMPLETION

There is so much chaos; yet there is a beautiful order in that chaos. Order is present because of kṣetrajña. If it were solely matter or kṣetra, there would not be any intelligence. There is intelligence in that matter. That intelligence or consciousness creates this existence. So the combination of kṣetra and kṣetrajña is necessary.

Modern science has shown that matter and energy are the same. They are interchangeable. The outer-world scientists proved this recently. However, the inner-world scientists proved it thousands of years ago. Matter and energy coexist to create existence. We should understand that kṣetra and kṣetrajña are not separate entities when we analyze them at a deeper level. Kṣetra and kṣetrajña are comprised of the same thing.

Kṣetra is the gross form of the energy that also makes up the subtle form of the kṣetrajña. For existence to happen, both the subtle and gross forms must be there.

How we look at things around us defines our lifestyle. We again and again look at things as only matter. When we see only this gross level, fear and greed creep into us. We then want to get more and more of this matter. We live a materialistic life when we think that all we see is solely matter. When we live at the kṣetra level, we live in an illusion or māyā. We want to possess the matter.

But when we realize that it is energy also, we think, ‘How can I possess energy? Is it possible to possess it?’ No. We can’t hold energy in a bag. When this realization happens, we recognize the futility of running after different things that we think are only matter.

Helping the students understand

the importance of knowing

one's path and how Guru is here

to help one find their path.

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PERFECT ORDER

MATERIALS NEEDED:

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1. Start by cutting different sized circle shapes from your white cardstock paper. You can use different sized cups, bowls and containers to trace your circles.

2. Squirt shaving cream into the foil containers, enough to fill the bottom of the pans. Use your rubber spatula to spread the shaving cream out evenly and make it as smooth as you can. The kids will have fun doing this part, just make sure you do the final once over.

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3. Squirt various colors of acrylic paint onto the shaving cream. It seems to work best If you squirt the paint in lines of various directions. Use a toothpick to create lines up and down, side to side and diagonally. You want to end up with a marbled look in the paint as this is the design you will be transferring to your planets for your preschool space craft.

4. Press the circle down into the paint and lightly rub all over the circle to get the shaving cream to stick to the entire circle. Carefully remove the circle from the paint and let it sit for 1-2 minutes. Use your squeegee to remove the excess shaving cream from your circle. PERFECT ORDER

5. Adding your marbled planets to black cardstock will help give the impression that these planets are in space. After the painted circles are dry, simply glue the planets onto black cardstock paper.

6. Using a brush, paint some gold glitter glue all around the planets, just on the black part of the paper. The glue adds a bit of shine and the glitter makes it looks like little stars.

Source: https://iheartcraftythings.com/preschool-space-craft-marbled-. planets.html

PERFECT ORDER

There is so much chaos; yet there is a beautiful order in that chaos. Order is present because of kṣetrajña. If it were solely matter or kṣetra, there would not be any intelligence. There is intelligence in that matter. That intelligence or consciousness creates this existence. So the combination of kṣetra and kṣetrajña is necessary.

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MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE:

Read the following story and ask the students to engage in a discussion. You can ask them question such as:

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

PROCEDURE:

“One day the sage Nārada was passing through that jungle. Nārada is cosmically known for his devotion to Viṣṇu. All Nārada had was a small stringed instrument that he played while constantly singing the praises of Viṣṇu.

Nārada told him, ‘I don’t have anything with me except this small instrument and God’s name. So I can’t give you anything.’

Vālmīki thought he was bluffing. He asked Nārada, ‘How can you not have anything?

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

PROCEDURE:

Nārada smiled and asked, ‘What do you do with all these things that you rob from others?

Vālmīki told him, ‘These are for my family, my children, my wife and my parents.’

Vālmīki told Nārada, ‘Yes, of course, they will be with me. I get them wealth and food. They will always be with me.

Nārada once again asked him, ‘Are you sure they will always be there for you?’

Vālmīki became irritated. He replied, ‘Can’t you understand? I am sure that they will always be there for me.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

PROCEDURE:

Actually Nārada was only keeping Vālmīki engaged in a conversation and made him look at life from a different cognition. Finally Nārada asked, ‘Okay, you have lots of trust that your family will always support you; they will always be there for you. Will they be there when you die? If you ask them to die with you, will they agree?’

Vālmīki confidently answered, ‘I am sure at least one of them will come if I ask them. I am robbing people only to support them. They are surviving because I get them this wealth. I am sure if I ask, they will die with me.’

Nārada said, ‘Okay, if you think they will do that for you, go and ask them and come back to me. If any one of them agrees, you can kill me. I will not go anywhere. I will stay here.

PROCEDURE:

Vālmīki agreed and went home. He asked his wife first if she would die with him. His wife said, ‘Dear, it is true that I am your other half, but I don’t think it is fair to ask me to die with you. When it comes to your death, it is your death only.’

Vālmīki was shocked. Anyway, he thought his children would surely go with him, as they loved him very much.

They said, ‘Father, we are young. We haven’t seen the world yet. You have seen everything but we haven’t. How can we die with you?’

PROCEDURE:

Vālmīki became depressed. His wife and children were saying they wouldn't be there with him when he died. He then thought his parents would surely go with him as they had taken care of him and had raised him. So he went up to them and to his surprise, they said, 'Why should we die with you? We are enjoying our life with our grandchildren.'

This shocked him. He went back to Nārada and told him what had happened. Nārada listened and told him, 'The only person who can be with you always is God.

ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:

PROCEDURE:

Vālmīki did not have any knowledge about spirituality. He was a robber. That one statement by Nārada made all the difference. He started looking inward after that, and became enlightened.

INFERENCE:

A person need not have any spiritual knowledge to start on a particular path. There is no prerequisite. Even if the person is totally new to spirituality, he can follow a spiritual path. Only a cognitive shift must happen.

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You can ask students questions such as:

There are different paths to realize the truth. However, we must understand what our path is. This is where a true Enlightened Master can enrich you. He knows exactly what the path is for you. He corrects you when you are on the wrong path.

BHAGAVAD GITA BOOK XIII, VOLUME IX

Authored by THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

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