CARRY THE RIGHT INNER SPACE
This text was machine-transcribed from the printed book and may contain errors. Select the words and choose “Report a mistake”.
Any transmission of knowledge, energy or experience happens between us only when you give your listening! In the Upaniṣads, it is told that when the young seeker Śvetaketu was initiated by his Guru, his Guru said to him only nine times, 'Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi! Tat Tvam Asi!' (You are That!) Śvetaketu became enlightened just by hearing those words! Then how come you don't become enlightened even if you listen to 'Tat Tvam Asi!' nine thousand times? You have to be carrying the right inner space! Listen. On the rock, seed cannot sprout as a tree.
In the right fertile ground only,
the seed can become a tree. In
the right inner space only, the
teachings can become reality.
Let me define exactly what is
the right inner space! Right
inner space means where all the
root thought patterns of
suffering are destroyed. All the
root thought patterns are
destroyed where your inner
space is fertile for experiencing
the higher ideal and ideas.
Listen! Inner space means when
you close your eyes and look
inside, how you feel and what
you feel as you, that is your
inner space.
In that inner space, if you suddenly
feel as if you have taken bath in
the cold water and the whole thing
inside is in eternal peace, and there
is no agitation; it is all completely
in peace, in restful awareness, in
completion, that is what is called
inner silence or the right inner
space. It means the space where all
your root patterns of suffering are
destroyed. You may wonder,
‘When will I experience the right
inner space or inner silence?’
It is actually you who needs to feel
tired of wandering around. Unless
you feel tired of wandering around
or if I have to use a strong term—
fooling around, your mind will
continue to go on fooling around,
being in incompletion.
Instead of the real source of joy, you will just go around and try to taste everything. Your mind needs to be a little tired of roaming around, only then will it look in and decide to find and destroy the root patterns and create the fertile ground of the right space. Whether we believe it or not, man by nature is a mechanism.
Not only at the body level, he is a mechanism even at the level of the mind. At most, we can call it a bio-mechanism, yet he is still a mechanism. He works based on memories, the root patterns or what we call mūla vāsanā in Saṃskṛit. If you have a certain pattern in you as a compulsive disorder, it is a bio-memory. It is just a dead memory. If you get frightened,
You will run away. If you have some thoughts or doubts that a person doesn’t love you, that person doesn’t care for you, all other thoughts will immediately wake up, and you will be in depression. Please understand, memories which stay in you and make you continuously respond unconsciously in the same pattern again and again, is bio- memory. If you learn the essence of the lessons you need to catch from the bio-memory, and live spontaneously based on that essence, it becomes bio-energy.
For example, you see a snake and you know that you may die if the snake bites. This situation can become a bio-memory in you— that even if you see the photograph of a snake, you may step back. I have seen people who don't even touch a snake's photo on the TV screen or computer screen! This is bio-memory. See, I am not saying that you should not have bio-memory of snake fear or go and catch the snake! No! If you learn just the intelligence from that incident, you are clear that snake bite can lead to death, so you don't go near the snake, but you don't have the compulsive patterns related to snakes and snake fear. You only have the intelligence. Then, that same thing becomes bio-energy.
Understand, in every situation, if you catch bio-memory, you will miss the bio- energy. If you function on just bio-memories, you are a bound soul. You are a baddha jīva, entangled soul. Living in bondage! Not only that, when you are living here, you also accumulate more and more muscle-memory. All the patterns you accumulate and continue to accumulate are muscle-memory
The confusion between muscle-memory
and bio-memory is a confused memory!
So for every act, you will not know the
right reason; if you know the reason,
you do not know how to act. It is a kind
of chaos. Listen! Man is continuously
caught in the web of these confused
memories in his mind and his being,
because he works based on root patterns
that have been stored in his bio-
memory, and accumulated as his muscle-
memory. So,
So do not know the reasons for the act you performed! Muscle-memory is the memory you accumulate in this janma (life time). Bio-memory is the memory you bring from the past births. Even in this birth, the muscle-memory can become bio-memory. When you psychologically collapse, with whatever ideas you elevate yourself and stand up, those ideas will become bio-memory in you, even though you accumulated them in this body
Does God exist? Many religious rituals are designed to build the right muscle-memory and bio-memory in us. Going to a temple or a satsang (spiritual gathering) reinforces our desire to move forward spiritually. They create the right space— the environment, the mood for the right decision to happen. These actions cannot liberate or enlighten us.
However, they can create the right
inner space in us and program our
unconscious mind, the muscle
memory and bio-memory to work
in a particular way.
They can rewire us. In the Vedic
tradition, the power of sound is used.
Vedic chanting is nothing but
becoming It just by declarations.
Every morning you declare, 'Aham
Brahmāsmi Aham Brahmāsmi, Aham
Brahmāsmi (I Am That)! Śivo‘ham
Śivo‘ham Śivo‘ham (Śiva I Am).' Just
the declaration! Such a powerful
declaration. Especially the collective
declarations. You are in that right
inner space.
cience is about facts that can be
recorded. Spirituality is about the
truth that needs to be experienced.
That is why our scriptures never
bothered about historical accuracy
and factual details. They dealt with
issues that affected our consciousness.
To understand our scriptures, we
cannot use logic
Truth has nothing to do with
our head. It has everything to
do with our being. People ask
me, ‘Can you prove the
existence of God?’ Listen!
Everything is experienced by
you as per the space you carry.
Everything—your reality of God,
reality of yourself, reality of
society and reality of universe is
experienced by you as per the
space you carry. Whether it is
the great realities of cosmos or
the realities of life or the
realities of mind, the space you
create, creates your reality.
God can only be experienced when we
drop our root patterns and create the
space of completion. How can we prove
His existence through the logic of our
mind? If we can comprehend Him
through our mind, our patterns, how
can He be in any way superior to us?
How can He then be God? God can
only be experienced. He cannot be
proved or disproved. He cannot be
believed or disbelieved. If you wish to
experience God, come to me and be in
the space of listening. If you have
courage, find your root thought pattern
and complete with it. You will
experience God in you.
Kṛṣṇa is the first Master who showed how to achieve Enlightenment. He showed the exact Science of Enlightenment. We can experience it through our conscious decision to create the space of completion. He says one can attain it, meaning that anybody can attain it. It means that when you understand the inner space of Enlightened beings, without even missing a single step, now you know the method to reach that space. Personality of the enlightened being is not a person, it is personification.
When you grasp the personality of an enlightened being, suddenly you know why you are the way you are, why you behave the way you behave. You know all the possible confusions and incompletions. And you will see, you will simply know the methodology to experience completion, pūrnatva.
In Saṁskṛit, Śiva means 'causeless auspiciousness'. The present is the most auspicious; whatever happens in the present is auspicious. We should develop the attitude of accepting what happens in the present as auspicious.
Understand, the impact of the past enters as a perverted inadequate cognition in your present and destroys your future. Listen! Your inner space experiences the past and future in the same language, in the same way.
How your past is built?
Incidents, your perceptions and your self-assessments are the pillars on which your past is built. If you complete yourself now, if you complete your perception and self-assessments, sixty percent of your past will be burnt! So, your past will lose its power over you.
Your past will be transformed.
By declaring that you are
complete, just once in the
present, you can finish off all
your millions of declarations in
the past. Because when time and
space cross, the declarations you
make are alive and powerful!
Time and space always cross in
the present moment. In any
legal system, the latest order will
be the order that will be
executed. Even in your life, only
your latest declaration will be
executed. Śiva is completion.
Completion is auspiciousness. If
you declare completion now,
you are complete. When you
complete, you transcend the
past and the future. Wherever
you go, you are going to be
carrying this auspiciousness,
radiating it. You will be a
moving auspiciousness.
The Great ‘why’ Kṛṣṇa is trying to answer philosophical questions that can never really be answered: How is the whole Universe created? If everything is God, why is the Universe created? How are we born? Whoever tried to answer these questions just created another philosophy.
When it comes to Cosmic questions, unless you discover your answer, you will never be in peace. ‘Why’ related to the outer world can be answered by the law of the land or the outer world science. But all the ‘whys’ related to cosmic law, all the ‘whys’ related to life can be answered only by yourself by discovering it
The Great 'why' Kṛṣṇa is trying
to answer philosophical
questions that can never really
be answered: How is the whole
Universe created? If everything
is God, why is the Universe
created? How are we born?
Whoever tried to answer these
questions just created another
philosophy.
When it comes to Cosmic
questions, unless you discover
your answer, you will never be
in peace. 'Why' related to the
outer world can be answered by
the law of the land or the outer
world science. But all the 'whys'
related to cosmic law, all the
'whys' related to life can be
answered only by yourself by
discovering it
The religion you discover is your religion, not the religion you are born in, is your religion. Answer you discover is your answer! For this great 'why' you have to discover an answer. If you accept my answer for 'why', you will be living for my answer. At the most, my answer should be an inspiration for you to find out the answer for 'why'. Kṛṣṇa tries to answer these questions as an inspiration for Arjuna to find his own answer for his 'why'.
However, this answer is not the ultimate Truth. He says, 'Please wait until the teachings are over.' Normally when we don't receive an answer for our philosophical question,
We will be stuck with that
‘why’. Kṛṣṇa says, ‘I am the
seed-giving father, the pitā, I am
the root cause for everything—
ahaṁ bīja pradaḥ pitā (14.4).’
‘Why’, this ‘great why’ is
Kṛṣṇa’s seed put inside you and
sent, so that you won’t rest
until you become a tree.
Understand, each seed has an
energy called ‘vīrya’ that does
not rest until it produces more
seeds.
Until then, it cannot rest. Even
if you destroy the seed or eat
the seed, that vīrya goes into
your body and does its job in
some other way! Here, Arjuna
also comes back to the same
great ‘why’ again and again and
gets stuck.
I am the seed-giving father, the pitā, I
am the root cause or everything—aham
bīja pradaḥ pitā (14.4).' 'Why', this
great why' is Kṛṣṇa's seed put inside
you and sent, so that you won't rest
until you become a tree. Understand,
each seed has an energy called 'vīrya'
that does not rest until it produces
more seeds.
Until then, it cannot rest. Even if you
destroy the seed or eat the seed, that
vīrya goes into your body and does its
job in some other way! Here, Arjuna
also comes back to the same great
'why' again and again and gets stuck
For the sake of inspiration or just for the sake of giving him an understanding, Kṛṣṇa gives an answer. Listen, Kṛṣṇa’s words can be fully understood only when we experience the consciousness of Kṛṣṇa. Until then, it is just a cognition. Even if it is a cognition, it is okay. Proceed with this new cognition into the next chapters, into the next verse.
Suddenly, when you see the result, we will understand that whatever you have cognized is the truth. Kṛṣṇa makes this declaration so that you can understand the truth. You can discover the root cause based on which you cognize your whole life, based on which your consciousness functions.
GOALS:
Impress upon the
students that
transmission of ultimate
knowledge, cosmic
energy or higher
dimensional energy
experience can happen
between the Master and
disciple only when the
disciple is completely
receptive, in deep
silence, complete,
focused inwards and
witnessing his inner
space.
ASSESSMENTS
❖ Why does Krishna repeat the same words and ideas again and again?
❖ How does one experience his/her inner space?
❖ What is the right inner space?
❖ What is bio memory, muscle memory and bio energy?
ART OF THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY:
DRAW PARAMASHIVA
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- Paper
- Pen
- Pencil
- Color pencils
PROCEDURE
Draw a painting depicting "Shiva" meaning "causeless auspiciousness"
INFERENCE
Śiva is the Lord of the present. He is the Master of the here and now. Śiva is the Rejuvenator, not just the Destroyer. The present always rejuvenates. The present is the most auspicious. We should develop the attitude of accepting what happens in the present as auspicious.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
VEDIC CHANTING
MATERIALS NEEDED: Notebook and pen.
PROCEDURE: Let each one of us write down our most favorite Sanskrit chant or mantra along with its meaning. Let us then share it with the rest of the group. Each child should recite his favorite mantra out loud and explain its meaning in his/her own words for the benefit of the rest of the group.
INFERENCE: Vedic Chanting is an oral meditative practice that integrates body, voice, mind, heart and soul. Reciting and listening to Vedic chants creates vibrations that have a positive effect on the bio memory and muscle memory of the orator and the listeners. These vibrations help release pleasure-causing endorphins, stimulate the immune system, and restore holistic health. Additionally they are known to increase learning ability, enhance creativity, sharpen memory and increase the power of concentration in both the reciter and the listener.
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:
VAAKYARTHA SADHAS
PROCEDURE Our topic of discussion is "Philosophical Questions on life can be answered by self discovery only"
CONCLUSION Persons who carry the space of completion, find everything auspicious and transcend creation and dissolution, past and future and become centered in the present. They become a jīvan mukta, and start living enlightenment. Krishna's message is an inspiration, that plants within us a seed of seeking for answers to our philosophical questions, which can only be answered by self discovery.
- BHAGAVAD GITA - BOOK XIV, VOLUME II
The Three
Natural
Attributes
Or Gunas
Authored by
THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसम्भवाः ।
निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्
॥१४=५॥
sattvaṁ rajastama iti guṇāḥ
prakṛtisambhavāḥ nibadhnanti
mahābāho dehe dehinamavyayam
Material nature consists of the three
modes—goodness, passion and
ignorance. When the living entity
comes in contact with nature, it
becomes conditioned by these modes
POWERFUL COGNITION
The science of completing with these roots thought patterns is the owner's manual for life. This is the basic life science!
तत्र सत्त्वं निर्मलत्वात्प्रकाशकमनामयम् ।
सुखसङ्गेन बध्नाति ज्ञानसङ्गेन चानघ
॥ १४=६॥
tatra sattvaṁ nirmalatvāt
prakāśakamanāmayaṁ sukhasaṅgena
badhnāti jñānasaṅgena cānagha
O Sinless One, the mode of goodness,
satva, being purer than the others, is
illuminating, and it frees one from all
sinful reactions. Those situated in that
mode develop knowledge, but they
become conditioned by the concept of
happiness.
POWERFUL COGNITION
Kṛṣṇa says we will be centered when we are in satva.
जो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् ।
तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम्
॥१४-७॥
rajo rāgātmakaṁ viddhi
tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam tannibadhnāti
kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam
Kaunteya, know that the mode of passion, rajas, is characterized by intense craving and is the source of desire and attachment. Rajas binds the living entity by attachment to work.
POWERFUL COGNITION
once we go in and complete with our root patterns, and associate ourselves with powerfulness, we move into bliss.
14.8
तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम् ।
प्रमादालस्यनिद्राभिस्तन्निबध्नाति भारत
॥ १४=८॥
tamas tv ajñānajaṁ viddhi
mohanaṁ sarvadehinām
pramādālasya-nidrābhis
tannibadhnāti bhārata
Know, O Arjuna, that the mode of
ignorance, tamas, the deluder of
the living entity is born of inertia.
Tamas binds the living entity by
carelessness, laziness, and excessive
sleep
POWERFUL COGNITION
Be integrated to your Soul. The Soul can never have tiredness, consciousness can never have tiredness. That is the truth.
INTRODUCTION
Material nature consists of three modes or attributes: goodness, passion and ignorance. These are called Guṇas in Saṁskṛit. Kṛṣṇa explains how we are operate through three different types of root thought patterns. One is satva, the other is rajas and the third is tamas. These are translated as goodness, passion and ignorance; however, these are not exact translations
Root patterns that lead to ecstasy and bliss form satva. Root patterns that lead to restlessness, anger and emotional imbalance form rajas. Root patterns that lead to depression, dullness and low moods form tamas. Those root thought patterns that automatically arise and imbalance our cognition, and lead to depression are called tamas. Sātvic patterns do not disturb us. Patterns that lead us to peace, bliss and ecstasy are sāvtic patterns.
