Life Has No
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Purpose, Only Meaning
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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM
अर्जुन उवाच
ज्यायसी चेत्कर्मणस्ते मता बुद्धिर्जनार्दन ।
तत्किं कर्मणि घोरे मां नियोजयसि केशव ॥ ३.१
arjuna uvāca
jyāyasī cetkarmaṇaste matā
buddhirjanārdana tatkiṁ
karmaṇi ghore māṁ niyojayasi
keśava
Arjuna says: O Janārdana, O
Keśava, Why do You make me
engage in this terrible war if
You think that knowledge is
superior to action?
POWERFUL COGNITION
Anything that talks about one and only one solution is born out of survival instinct, never out of inspiration. Arjuna is asking for a single instruction, Kṛṣṇa only gives inspiration
व्यामिश्रेणेव वाक्येन बुद्धिं मोहयसीव मे ।
तदेकं वद निश्चित्य येन श्रेयोऽहमाप्नुयाम् ॥ ३.२
vyāmiśreṇeva vākyena
buddhiṁ mohayasīva
me tadekaṁ vada
niścitya yena
śreyohamāpnuyām
My intelligence is
confused by Your
conflicting words. Tell
me clearly what is best
for me
POWERFUL COGNITION
Arjuna is a kṣatriya, a warrior, he wants a clear instruction. But the destination is not important; the journey is. The goal is not important; the path is.
श्रीभगवानुवाच
लोकेऽस्मिन्द्विविधा निष्ठा पुरा प्रोक्ता मयानघ ।
ज्ञानयोगेन साङ्ख्यानां कर्मयोगेन योगिनाम् ॥ ३.३
śrībhagavānuvāca
loke'smindvividhā niṣṭhā purā
proktā mayānagha jñānayogena
sāṁkhyānāṁ karmayogena
yoginām
The Lord says, 'O sinless
Arjuna, as I said before, in this
world there are two paths; Self
knowledge for the intellectual
and the path of action of the
knowing
POWERFUL COGNITION
Arjuna is a kṣatriya, a warrior, he wants a clear instruction. But the destination is not important; the journey is. The goal is not important; the path is.
न कर्मणामनारम्भान्नैष्कर्म्यं पुरुषोऽश्नुते ।
न च सन्न्यसनादेव सिद्धिं समधिगच्छति ॥ ३.४
na karmaṇāmanārambhānnaiṣkarmyaṁ
puruṣo'śnute na ca sannyasanādeva
siddhiṁ samadhigacchati
A person does not attain freedom from
action by abstaining from work, nor
does he attain fulfillment by giving up
action
POWERFUL COGNITION
Abstaining from work or moving away from work cannot give you freedom from action. To have freedom from action, your inner space needs to be purified, your inner space needs to be the space of completion
INTRODUCTION
Arjuna is asking for a single instruction from Kṛṣṇa, he says, 'Tell me clearly what is best for me?' By asking for a clear instruction, he can hold Kṛṣṇa responsible for his own inauthenticity and escape the responsibility for his actions.
Understand that asking for a single instruction itself is from violence. And if the single instruction is given, that is encouraging your violence., only inspiration should be given. This is the beauty of Hinduism!
No single instruction can
work because the root pattern
of asking for a single
instruction is violence.
Why? Because we feel either
we should be alive or the
other person
should be alive.
The mentality of fighting and
violence always excludes. The
root of the problem should be
solved.
Anything that talks about one
and only one solution is born
out of survival instinct, never
out of inspiration. Arjuna is a
kṣatriya, a warrior. Arjuna is
uncomfortable when he is not
in action; when he has no
clearly defined purpose and
motivated instructions before
him.v
FULFiLLMENT iN THE WORLDLY LiFE iS AN iLLUSiON
Some goal is always put in front of you. The so-called goals in material life or spiritual life continuously make you feel you are not good enough.
We are always greedy for more. We continuously pursue material goals. As a result, we never relax within ourselves.
Continuously running, thinking there is some purpose to life, a man's whole being will be in a state of tension, conditioned to running out of compulsion, never out of completion.
LIFE IS PURPOSELESSNESS
Root thought pattern is nothing but this first social conditioning, this strong conditioning which imbalances you from your purposelessness space and gives birth to the mind, the idea that there is some purpose to life !
Life has no purpose. Even if you achieve whatever you want, you can't take it with you. You can't carry even a single dollar when you leave. Nothing will come with you.
LIFE HAS NO PURPOSE,
ONLY MEANING!
Purpose is different from
meaning. When the word
‘meaning’ is said, living itself
becomes meaningful.
Come to this present
moment of completion and
the path itself is meaningful.
For the man who works just
for his salary, only payday
will be a beautiful day.
He will be happy only on
that day. He sells 29 days
every month for that
one day of happiness.
Not that you ‘can’t take
your salary.’ But let it not be
the only goal in your life.
YOUR INNER SPACE IS THE SPACE OF COMPLETION!
Kṛṣṇa says, let your inner space not be contaminated by the purpose of life. When you close your eyes, what comes into your mind is your inner space. By nature, your inner space is the space of completion, it is filled with energy; your inner space, what you refer to as ātman, spirit or soul, is filled with blissful energy.
The more you empty yourself of goals or incompletions, the more the space for completion and bliss.
A SMALL EXAMPLE
For example, this room is filled with space. The more furniture you put in it, the more space will leave this room. This room is filled with the energy of ether. The more furniture you bring in, the more ether will be pushed out; the lesser will be the ether energy.
In the outer space, if you furnish your home, it will look very nice. But if you furnish your inner space, it will look very ugly. You need to empty your inside, which is filled with unnecessary furniture. Completion will clear out all unnecessary things from your inner space. It will get you all that you need in the outer world. Don't furnish your inner space. Let your inner space be empty. It will be filled with completion, pūrṇatva. It will be filled with bliss! The only goal in your life.
LIVE LIFE TO FULFILL YOUR PURPOSE
The more complete inner space
you create, the more blissful
your life will be. That is what
Kṛṣṇa means by saying, 'Don't
be attached to results.'
If you are complete and blissful,
you will never disturb others. If
you are unhappy, naturally you
will vomit that violence on
others.
Purpose can be fulfilled, but
through purpose, your life can
never be fulfilled. When you
carry purposes in your life, you
are not living; purposes are living
through you, that's all.
In your childhood somebody
gives you some purpose like,
'You should become a lawyer or
a doctor.' You are given a
purpose and that purpose is
fulfilled through your life, but
you will never feel fulfilled or
complete.
KRISHNA'S TECHNIQUE FOR SUCCESS IN INNER - OUTER WORLDS
Always, people who are active in
the outer world know the
techniques to achieve success in
the outer world.
People who are active in the inner
world know the techniques to
achieve success in the inner world
But Kṛṣṇa knows both! He is the
only Master who is an enlightened
man and a king as well. He knows
how to achieve total success in the
outer world and in the inner
world. He shows you how to
furnish your outer space with
enriching, and how to keep your
inner space empty with
completion. That is life in totality.
THE ENTIRE GiTA iS ONLY ABOUT THiS ONE
iDEA: HOW TO FURNiSH YOUR OUTER SPACE
WiTH THE ULLTiMATE LUXURiES AND HOW TO
KEEP YOUR iNNER SPACE iN ETERNAL BLiSS
Only Kṛṣṇa can give a complete solution for practical spiritual living.
Kṛṣṇa gives immediate solutions, permanent solutions. Only Kṛṣṇa's solution is useful for people who are living a regular lifestyle. Abstaining from work or moving away from work cannot give you freedom from action. To have freedom from action, your inner space needs to be purified.
You need to remove the furniture of incompletions from your complete inner space. Renouncing furniture in the outer world is not going to help you. Only removing furniture from the inner world is going to enrich you.
WHAT iS AUTHENTiCiTY?
Building your own identity to the
peak possibility and renouncing the
identity built on purpose.
authenticity in action is the strategy
plan for your life.
Renouncing your identity in the
inner space, or emptying your inner
space and creating the space of
completion is the real thing to be
achieved.
That is what Kṛṣṇa says here. Once
you have renounced in the inner
space, it doesn't matter what you do
in the outer world. Nothing will
touch you.
GOALS:
Let children understand that
knowledge of the self is the
supreme path to Enlightenment.
Help the children understand
the difference between having
goals and purpose and the
incompletions they create, and
having meaning in life For the
children to understand the
difference between filling the
inner space and filling the outer
space.
ASSESSMENTS
❖ If Kṛṣṇa had given Arjuna a single
instruction, what would it have
allowed Arjuna to do?
❖ What is the difference between
giving an instruction and giving
inspiration?
❖ Instead of giving a single instruction, what should be solved?
❖ What is a root thought pattern?
ASSESSMENTS
❖ If life has no meaning, what does it
have?
❖ What can contaminate our inner
space?
❖ What is the natural state of our
inner space?
❖ What is lost when you bring more
and more furniture into a room?
❖ What is lost when you bring more
and more goals and incompletions
into your inner space?
❖ How can you have freedom from
action?
❖ What is authenticity?
ART OF
THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY:
A BEAUTIFUL SCENERY
Materials needed:
❖ Pen
❖ Pencil
❖ Paper
Procedure:
Encourage each child to draw the thoughts which arise in their mind in the same sequence in which they occur. Observe the results of the drawings together.
Inference:
Authenticity is building your own identity to the peak possibility
WORKSHOP OF
THE DAY
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY:
VAAKYARTHA SADHAS
Hold a Vaakyartha sadhas on the topic: the root pattern of asking for a single instruction is violence
Conclusion: Life has no purpose, only meaning
- BHAGAVAD GITA -
BOOK III, VOLUME II