Become A
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Flute In The
Hands Of
Kṛṣṇa
Authored by
THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा ।
निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्व विगतज्वरः
॥ ३-३०॥
mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi
sannyasyādhyātmacetasā
nirāśīrnirmamo bhūtvā yudhyasva
vigatajvaraḥ
Dedicating all actions to Me, with
consciousness filled with spiritual
knowledge of Self, without desire
for gain and without sense of
ownership, without being lazy,
fight
POWERFUL COGNITION
Become a flute in the hands of Kṛṣṇa.
3.31
ये मे मतमिदं नित्यमनुतिष्ठन्ति मानवाः ।
श्रद्धावन्तोऽनसूयन्तो मुच्यन्ते तेऽपि कर्मभिः
॥ ३-३१ ॥
ye me matamidaṁ nityam anutiṣṭhanti
mānavāḥ śraddhāvanto 'nasūyanto
mucyante tepi karmabhiḥ
Those persons who execute their
duties according to My teaching and
who follow these teachings faithfully
with authenticity, without envy,
become free from the bondage of
fruitive actions
POWERFUL COGNITION
When you enter into your being,
whatever your being says is Kṛṣṇa's
words.
3.32
ये त्वेतदभ्यसूयन्तो नानुतिष्ठन्ति मे मतम् ।
सर्वज्ञानविमूढांस्तान्विद्धि नष्टानचेतसः
॥ ३=३२॥
ye tvetad abhyasūyanto nānutiṣṭhanti
me matam sarvajñānavimūḍhāṁstān
viddhi naṣṭānacetasaḥ
But those who do not regularly
perform their duty according to My
teaching, are ignorant, senseless and
ruined
POWERFUL COGNITION
Authenticity is the key
INTRODUCTION
When you complete and drop the goals and fall into your being, the Divine will guide you and you will become an instrument in His hands.
If you become a hollow bamboo without any blockages inside, you will become a flute in the hands of Kṛṣṇa.
Dropping your purposes or dropping your root pattern is what is called becoming a hollow bamboo.
When you become a flute, the air that enters into you comes out as music. Your words become mantra, sacred words that enrich people, your actions become tantra, sacred techniques to realize the Divine, and your form becomes yantra, sacred form, you become Divine.
Understand, as long as you follow the goals set by society, you will be carrying a social conscience.
The moment you drop social
conditioning, the purposes taught to
you by society, you will drop conscience
and start living with consciousness.
Please listen, conscience will become
consciousness the moment you bring
responsibility to it. Conscience means
struggling with do's and don'ts, guilt
and desires. Consciousness means the
pure flow of life.
ŚRADDHA, YOUR PEAK POSSIBILITY
Śraddhā cannot really be translated as faith. It means faith plus the courage of authenticity to execute the highest level of possibility. In English, there is no equivalent for śraddha. Sraddha is authenticity, but authenticity is not all-encompassing translation of śraddha.
The courage of being established in the peak of your capability, and responding to life from who you perceive to be for yourself, who you project yourself to be for others, what others expect you to be for them and what you expect them to be for you is what is called śraddhā, Authenticity.
WHY DO WE NEED COURAGE OF AUTHENTICITY?
A small story: A man born blind goes to the doctor and asks, ‘Doctor, will you help me gain my eyesight?’ The doctor says, ‘Don’t worry, I will perform an operation. You will get your vision and after that you can walk without your stick.’
Blind people always carry a stick to feel their way around. The doctor tells him that he will be able to walk without the stick. The blind man asks, ‘Doctor, I understand you will do an operation. I understand I will have my eyesight restored. But I don’t understand howI can walk without the stick?’
By and by, the blind man had forgotten that his stick was just an aid. In the same way, just live without the mind. Just live without purpose and goals, you will be able to walk without the stick. The stick is nothing but your planning and worrying. By and by, worrying has become a part of you
Courage is the fragrance of authenticity. When you have the courage of authenticity, śraddha towards living these teachings and start living without purpose, only then will you realize that you don't need the stick to walk. That is when you become authentic to your peak possibility. Once you enter into the depths of your being, you will enter into a totally different dimension. Whatever you think now as spiritual life or material life both lose their meaning and you will enter a new dimension of life. You will be established in authenticity, in the space of possibility.
When you enter into your being, when you experience the purposelessness of life, the so-called material life and spiritual life both drop you and you enter what is called 'Quantum spirituality' or Eternal Consciousness. You are then in eternal bliss. Only then you will understand you don't need worries to live. You don't need your mind. Until you reach the being, you need to have śraddha
The next word is a beautiful word: 'anasūyanto,' which means 'without envy.' This is important. We all think, 'He has that, she has this,' what happens?
All your spirituality, all your authenticity, all your purposelessness, everything just disappears.
You are again in the same rat race. If your neighbor buys a new air conditioner, the temperature in your house shoots up. Envy is the parasite pattern that puts you back in the same rut of inauthenticity. The problem with the rat race is this—even if you win, you are still a rat!
Any pattern you create before the age of seven is the root pattern. Any pattern created after the age of seven is a parasite pattern.
First you will have to work on completing with the parasite patterns and then completing with all the root patterns.
The moment the parasite pattern of
envy or jealousy enters your being,
authenticity disappears, purposelessness
disappears. Again, you fall into social
conditioning and you start running
behind goals like a rat.
Kṛṣṇa is asking Arjuna to bring śraddha
or authenticity in action to the peak
possibility of what he perceives as
himself and what he projects as himself,
without the parasite pattern of envy.
BEYOND LOGiC LiES DEVOTiON
THE POWER OF iLLUSiON
Illusion makes us all dance with
this one stick, jealousy. Have you
seen guys who make money using
monkeys in India?
On the roadside, they perform a
small show with monkeys. With a
small stick they make the monkey
dance and do whatever they want
it to.
In the same way, the power of
illusion is making you run as it
wants with just one stick called
jealousy.
The moment you compare, you just
jump into your lower dimensions,
the same rut which is called the
purposeful life.
One more thing: When we do
things out of comparison, we do
only foolish things. Our intelligence
stops working and our performance
falls short of our peak potential,
because we now use someone else’s
productivity as our measuring stick.
If you do things out of the parasite
patterns of jealousy, you will end up
being inauthentic in your actions.
Comparison or jealousy is the root
from which inauthenticity justifies
itself and continues to exist in you!
Do not allow it. Each one of us is
unique. There is no need to
compare with any other person.
You are unique.
LIFE IS FOR REALIZING YOUR HIGHEST POSSIBILITY
When you are in conflict, you will naturally suffer. Wherever you are in conflict, be very clear you are in conflict, even though you point at others' inauthenticity. Constantly practicing authenticity brings you to the space of possibility.
Śraddha or Authenticity continuously connects you with yourself and your highest possibility. Life is for realizing that possibility. Life is for realizing the Self. Life is for realizing itself.
AUTHENTICITY IS LIFE! LIFE IS CONTINUOUS EXPANSION! ADD AUTHENTICITY TO YOUR THINKING IN EVERY STEP..
Constantly go on expanding!
Neither expression nor suppression
is the solution, only completion
with your inauthentic identities is
the solution. The solution is to
infuse śraddha, the courage of
authenticity into this process. For
example: your reaction of irritation
has nothing to do with what the
person has done. If you look a
little deeper, you can see it is how
you choose to react based on your
root and parasite patterns that
decides what you feel about the
person. You choose to get irritated
by what he is doing
Authenticity is the key.
If you bring authenticity to
what you perceive as you, to
what is happening within you
and what you project yourself
outside you, you will not be
controlled by your
unconscious patterns.
You will be able to see clearly
when lower emotions arise or
unconscious reactions arise.
The awareness of your
inauthenticity will itself bring
you to your peak capability.
Then, you will naturally drop
all your lower level emotions
and live authenticity without
envy, the space of possibility.
GOALS:
For children to learn about
authenticity. For children to
understand to drop comparison
and jealousy.
ASSESSMENTS
• What is required to become "hollow bamboo ... a flute in the hands of Kṛṣṇa"?
• What is the difference between conscience and consciousness?
• What is Śraddha?
• What is the fragrance of authenticity?
• Do you need worries to live?
• What is anasūyanto?
• What effect does envy have on you?
ASSESSMENTS
• Until what age are root patterns created?
• What are illusion, comparison and jealousy?
• Why is there no need to compare with any other person?
• Is life expanding or shrinking?
ART OF THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY:
SPRAY PAINTING
MATERIALS NEEDED:
1. Poster paints Paper Comb A protected surface where the children can work with paint, or outside
PROCEDURE
Encourage children to paint by dipping the comb in the poster color and spray painting on paper
INFERENCE
For the art to be perfect and beautiful, we have to do the spray painting with full awareness. Similarly authenticity has to be practiced in every dimension of your life. What is your peak way of relating to your life?
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
LEMON AND SPOON GAME
MATERIALS NEEDED:
1. Lemons or potatoes or similar that won't break when dropped Spoons
PROCEDURE: The spoon and lemon race is played by walking while balancing a lemon on a spoon which is held by the mouth. It is easy to play this game that is coupled with a lot of fun. One has to balance the lemon without dropping it to the finish line just like a race.
INFERENCE: While playing this game, you have to be aware every moment. You cannot be careless for some time and careful in other times. Just like authenticity has to be practiced in every dimension of your life.
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:
VAAKYARTHA SADHAS
Encourage the children to talk about examples of patterns they are aware of. It can be patterns they know that they have, or patterns they have seen in others around them.. Discuss whether they are root patterns or parasite patterns.
Conclusion:
What you know about humans, what you know about the world, what you know about you is all imperfect perception, comparative reality. Don't build your inner space on comparative reality. Let your inner space be built on the space of highest possibility
- BHAGAVAD GITA -
BOOK III, VOLUME IX