Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16

INTRODUCTION

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Kṛṣṇa lists a number of qualities
that take us to a higher plane of
consciousness; qualities that make
us divine.

QUALITIES OF THE HEART NOT THE MIND

Now when we listen to these things with the space of ‘me’, what do we usually do? We start practicing all these virtues. Be clear that if we try to practice all of these qualities, one thing is sure: we will become mad. We will not be able to do anything because we will be fighting with ourselves. We will be controlling our senses to strengthen our ego. When we try to understand these ideas with our ego, with the space of ‘me’, we practice them to strengthen the idea of ‘me’, to improve ourselves and become better beings. Again and again, Masters prove that they are not better beings; they are totally transformed beings. There is a difference between better beings and transformed beings. Kṛṣṇa tells us to be without fear and greed.

He also says to be without anger. He says to be truthful, simple, meek, gentle, non-violent, and to be without expectations and to renounce. These are qualities of the Divine; these are qualities that you express when you are focused not on your own self but on others. These are qualities that arise from the heart and not from the mind. These are qualities that arise from love and not from desire. These are enriching qualities that naturally express from completion not compulsion. When we are complete, free and liberated, we are in sheer enjoyment and we are in heaven. If we focus on enriching others, on ‘You’, we expand with the power of living. In fact, the more we focus to create the inner space of completion, the more we open up to enrich others. We move from the ‘me’ to ‘You.’ As we move inwards, our higher intelligence awakens. Our higher intelligence is nothing but the Divine.

Image of a divine figure sitting on a throne.

That completion alone makes us God. Completion is God! Completion is Divinity!

As human beings we have the opportunity to expand into this energy, into this higher intelligence. Unfortunately, animals do not have this ability, this consciousness. Humans do. To ignore this gift, this opportunity, this consciousness, is our original sin. The entire meaning of our life is to discover this truth and become divine. That is why, if we die without realizing this truth, we are born again. We go through this cycle of life and death again and again because we do not recognize who we are. As Buddha says, that is the cause of our suffering. When we realize our own Self, our true divine potential, we realize the meaning of our life, and there is no need to be born again. We become liberated

Life is not that unfair with you.
Anything happens only when you
take the responsibility of inviting it
and making it happen. You should
know very clearly and see your
own hypocrisy. What a funny
belief space we create about life
and then we go on blaming life! If
you create this kind of space, will
life respond to you? Ironing out
your thinking to the logical flow of
your thinking, needs to be done as
the first step for awakening the
divine qualities. Whatever you are
afraid of, sit in a very cool and
comfortable way and know very
clearly that just because you are
thinking, you are not going to
have it. Millions of things about
which you thought, you didn’t
have them. You also wanted a
private jet, but did you get it? No!
So, know very clearly, mere
thinking is not going to get you
the results.

Only creating the space is going to get you the results. Creating the space means, taking the responsibility and thinking. Accept that there is a possibility for all these fears to come true: your wealth may be stolen, you may have an accident, a near or dear one may die, or you may die All these possibilities are real. Yes. What can be done? This is life. this is what is called facing reality as it is. So, sit comfortably and tell yourself clearly, ‘Now I am going to allow myself to think to the extreme conclusions, the logical conclusions of any thought-trend which I am afraid of. If I am afraid of poverty, let me sit and think about the extreme possibility of poverty.

Anything that stays in your unconscious as a weight and makes you brood over it, bring all of them out and consciously think through them to the logical conclusion. With integrity, fear of thinking will disappear, and once fear of thinking disappears, they cannot cause fear to you. When you lose fear of thinking, thinking loses fear of you. When both of you lose fear of each other, you live happily, blissfully, ever after. Having eternal romance with your thinking is integrity. Integrity takes away the fear component in your thinking. You can think about anything; you will take responsibility for the right thing.

GOALS:

Helping students face the fears
that are unconsciously sitting as
a weight in them. Helping the
students realize that life is fair
and that one must bring
integrity and take responsibility
to make the reality they want
happen.