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The Mind
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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन् ।
आत्मवश्यैर्विधेयात्मा प्रसादमधिगच्छति
॥ २=६४॥
rāgadveṣaviyuktaistu
viṣayānindriyaiścaran
ātmavaśyairvidheyātmā
prasādamadhigacchati
The self-controlled man, moving
among objects with his senses under
control, free from both attraction and
repulsion, attains peace
POWERFUL COGNITION
The only way, the Lord says, is to control one's senses, complete with oneself and surrender to Him, the Universal energy, and achieve everlasting peace.
प्रसादे सर्वदुःखानां हानिरस्योपजायते ।
प्रसन्नचेतसो ह्याशु बुद्धिः पर्यवतिष्ठते
॥ २=६५॥
prasāde sarvaduḥkhānāṁ
hānirasyopajāyate prasannacetaso
hyāśu buddhiḥ paryavatiṣṭhate
All pains are destroyed in that peace,
for the intellect of the tranquil-
minded soon becomes steady
POWERFUL COGNITION
Ground yourself in the completion of the present.
नास्ति बुद्धिरयुक्तस्य न चायुक्तस्य भावना ।
न चाभावयतः शान्तिरशान्तस्य कुतः सुखम्
॥ २=६६॥
nāsti buddhirayuktasya na cāyuktasya
bhāvanā na cābhāvayataḥ śāntir
aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham
A person not in self awareness
cannot be wise or happy or peaceful.
How can there be happiness to one
without peace
POWERFUL COGNITION
Stay fully in the space of completion, and based on the truth of integrity and authenticity, act.
इन्द्रियाणां हि चरतां यन्मनोऽनुविधीयते ।
तदस्य हरति प्रज्ञां वायुर्नावमिवाम्भसि
॥ २-६७॥
ndriyāṇāṁ hi caratāṁ yanmano
'nuvidhīyate tadasya harati prajñāṁ
vāyurnāvamivāmbhasi
He loses his awareness of the present
moment when his mind follows the
wandering senses, just as the wind
carries away a boat on the waters.
POWERFUL COGNITION
Be complete and focus completely.
INTRODUCTION
Kṛṣṇa reveals two very important truths here in the last two verses. One is that you can never be peaceful unless you are complete, conscious. The other is that you cannot be complete if you are led by your senses. Therefore, as long as your senses lead you into what you think is a pleasurable journey; you cannot really be happy or peaceful. It is just another trick your mind is playing on you. Your happiness is not real happiness. It is just a gap between two periods of sorrow. What you hear, what you think you hear, what you see, what you think you see, and so on, all these sense inputs are unreliable, incomplete cognitions.
Anybody who succeeded, till that success happened, he only failed! But if he had held on to his past record, success should not have happened in his life. This journey never stops all through your life unless you make a serious attempt to complete with it. Your mind, on itsown, would never want to stay in the present moment, which is the only moment of truth. Self- completion, svapūrṇatva is the only direct method to reclaim your space of completion. This is your basic right. Reclaim it!
Drop the past records. The past track never gives you the confidence, the possibility. Unless you see the possibility, life does not flow in you! Excitement does not happen in you. The past records always bring deep sorrow, because by nature, past records are death. Possibility, by nature, is Life! The past record is neither as bad as you remember, nor worthy of being remembered. Possibility is life. Life is possibility, not past record.
Kṛṣṇa says, ‘Get away from your senses; escape from their control; ground yourself in the completion of the present. Only then can you be at peace. How can there be happiness for one without peace, aśāntasya kutaḥ sukham? (2.66).
What is this present moment? What is this completion?
When we do the self-completion process, our mind and inner space becomes integrated and authentic and stops moving back and forth between the past and future, it will by itself land in the present moment. The present moment is what we are doing now. If you are reading this book, don’t half read this book and half listen to music; don’t half read this book and half talk with someone. Either be complete and focus completely on what you are reading or don’t read at all.
When you settle into the space of
completion, you are out of the clutches
of your senses and mind. You will still
see and hear, but none of what you see
and hear will divert you from what you
are integrated to doing. You will be
aware of only what you are doing in
that present moment. This is what we
call meditation.
Meditation is nothing but being
integrated completely to what you are
doing at a particular moment. When
you plan for the unimaginable, when
your nervous system is loaded with
things that you are not able to even
comprehend, the excitement that oozes
in your nervous system is bliss!
Understand, bliss does not come to
lazy bums! Bliss does not happen to
people caught in the pastrecords.
This is what Kṛṣṇa says will lead you
into peace and very soon to being
steady—prasanna-cetaso hy āśu
buddhiḥ paryasvatiṣṭhate (2.65).
When you are complete, your senses
are in your control instead of you
being under their control. You
become peaceful, you are in bliss
GOALS
❖ Helping each child settle in the space of completion.
❖ Helping each child
experience meditation, being
established in the present
moment.
ASSESSMENTS
❖ When does real success happen?
❖ When does real happiness happen?
❖ What is the direct method to
regain your space of
completion?
❖ What should we do with our past records and why?
❖ How can you get out of the
clutches of your senses and
mind?
❖ Define meditation?
❖ How can you become peaceful and experience bliss?
ART OF THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY:
SAY GOODBYE TO THE PAST
MATERIALS NEEDED:
1. Paper 2. Pencil 3. Eraser. (No pen because they will need to erase)
PROCEDURE
Ask each child to draw a situation that made them unhappy in pencil. Then ask them to hold that paper and help them complete with the incident. When they are complete, ask them to erase their drawing. Conclude by asking the children how they feel at the end of the process and ask them to explain why dropping the past is important.
INFERENCE
This art activity will help the children understand that past records need to be dropped in order for them to be in a space of completion and experience bliss.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
ENGAGE FULLY IN ACTION
PROCEDURE: Ask each child to pick one activity that they want to do for 5 minutes and tell them that they have to engage it with it fully, and to be completely involved in it like nothing else exists.
INFERENCE When you engage fully in the action without getting distracted, you experience the present moment. You experience completion. You experience bliss. You move towards being established in the space of completion.
WORKSHOP OF
THE DAY
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:
VAAKYARTHA SADHAS
Discuss what is Unclutching and Lead the group into the unclutching meditation to help them get grounded in the present moment.
Meditation Technique to Unclutch from Your Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQGzzkNyG_E
Timestamp: 10 Mins 08 Secs
CONCLUSION Completion brings peace and bliss..
- BHAGAVAD GITA -
BOOK II, VOLUME XVII