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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE BECOMES LIVE GIVING NECTAR

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Kṛṣṇa says that spiritual practice,
that is the state of satva, is
difficult in the beginning, and it
is like poison; however, it
becomes life-giving nectar in the
end.

Sensual pleasures born out of
rajas, on the other hand, seem
like nectar in the beginning but
become poisonous. In the
tamasic state, Kṛṣṇa says, one is
deluded as if in sleep, laziness
and illusion. Every human is in
one state or another.

Of course, one who has
reached that level of
completion does not think
of killing. As long as we
have the idea of 'I' and
'mine', we attack or kill.
When we exclude, we kill.
On the other hand, when
we surrender, we learn to
include everything

One thing we need to
understand. We kill others only
when we feel insecure. We do not
need courage to make war. We
only need cowardice. Only
cowards go to war. They are
afraid for themselves and kill
others. To kill others, we do not
need courage. We simply need
cowardice.

Nithyananda Paramashivam

The person who is courageous
never kills others. He is
established in non- violence.
Only cowards continuously try
to hurt others. A courageous
person does not try to hurt
others. That is the reason Kṛṣṇa
makes this bold statement —
one who is not entangled in
ego, even if he kills, does not
kill.
Kṛṣṇa emphasizes here: May you be
liberated from entanglement. May you
liberate yourself from ego, yasya
nāhaṅkṛto bhāvo. He does not ask
Arjuna to kill. One problem is that
people give their own meaning to
words. They have their own delusive
cognition.

Do not give your own meaning to what Kṛṣṇa has said! He is asking you to be liberated from ego. He is asking you to be complete with your root patterns. The person who has realized that he is part of a whole will not kill even if he kills. Grasp the proper meaning of this. Kṛṣṇa asks you to experience the truth about yourself. He does not ask you to kill people. Recognize the correct meaning. Kṛṣṇa inspires you to realize the truth of your natural space of completion, not to kill.

Krishna illustration

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Kṛṣṇa uses killing as an extreme
example to make Arjuna think.
The focus is on non-attachment
arising out of egolessness, which is
the space of completion. You
need to know, completion done
in the space of completion
transforms your personality,
transforms your being, heals the
intense, constant, agītated
violence you carry towards you
and others.

Nithyananda

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Krishna playing the flute in space

When one no longer feels the need to survive, anything that one does is without attachment and without expectation. When a person is in that state, he is truly in completion with Existence. If such a person destroys, it is similar to the destruction caused by Nature, which happens at a different frequency and understanding level as I explained earlier.

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A smiling figure with long hair wearing rudraksha beads

Kṛṣṇa makes this statement to drive the point home to Arjuna that it is his responsibility to stand up and fight instead of running away from the battlefield.

GOALS:

Helping
children/teenagers
understand what is
courage.
-Helping
children/teenagers
experience their natural
space of completion.

Illustration of a young person with a turban