Surrender Is The Ultimate Relaxation🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

POWERFUL COGNITION

Now, I am giving the right and complete reason for enriching. Because everyone is part of you, enriching every being is nothing but enriching some part of you.

POWERFUL COGNITION

When you see that Existence is purposeless and you are living in the loving, caring arms of Existence, you will relax and surrender to that very Existence.

Here are two techniques by which one can liberate oneself from attachment to work. One is by telling oneself, 'I am not the doer.' By continuously reminding yourself that it is the senses and not you who is doing something, you distance yourself from the action. The other way is by surrendering the fruits of one's work to the Divine, to the ultimate life force that is conducting this Universe. This is the technique that Kṛṣṇa talks about here. Bhagavān says, 'O Kaunteya, perform your work for Me and you will do it with authenticity, liberated and without attachment.' When you do work as a sincere, humble offering to the Divine, the very attitude of this surrender will make you do the job authentically to your peak capability and you will be liberated.

When you are excessively bothered about the results, you actually think you are the doer of the action! That is why you get attached to the work and its results. This is when you start getting stressed and tensed about results. Naturally, when you are tensed, you are not performing at your maximum efficiency because so much of your valuable energy is getting wasted in being tense.

How will you then be able to get your job properly done? I always tell people, 'When you are afraid to make small mistakes and are overcautious, you end up making big blunders.' You waste your entire life trying to avoid making mistakes and attempting to be perfect, and your life becomes a blunder. This doesn't mean you can be careless about your work. I am only saying that you should have the courage of authenticity to make mistakes and learn to not give up on yourself.

Only when you make mistakes can you learn from them and complete with your unconscious inauthenticity's.

Only then have you been exposed to your inauthenticity and seen both sides of the coin. Then, with experience, when you have learnt from the mistake and stood up powerfully with completion, you will have the cognition of both sides.

Otherwise, just at the crucial time, your inauthenticity's that have been hiding from you will make you commit mistakes and you will powerlessly give up on yourself.

You can have this courage of authenticity only when you are not attached to the ownership of tasks and results.

Utmost integrity and authenticity is enough for surrender.

What is important is surrender itself.

See the example of Arjuna; Kṛṣṇa knew Arjuna better than Arjuna knew himself.

The very trust, the very connection enabled Arjuna to relate with Kṛṣṇa, who took him to the Ultimate Consciousness.

Have simple trust in Existence, in the intelligence of the life force. This is the very life force, the energy that is keeping you alive.

It is the energy behind the marvelous functioning of your brain, of your digestive system, of your nervous system.

It is the energy that runs our solar system, all the galaxies and the entire Universe so smoothly.

PART OF YOU

We very conveniently forget an important fact, and take life happening for us with others for granted. Anything you receive without enriching, is stolen!

When we enrich others what we can afford to give, it is no sacrifice. When we enrich others by denying ourselves, then it is a sacrifice. That is why most of the charitable work done by people, even with good intentions, does not fit into the essence of what Kṛṣṇa says here. Of course, it is better to enrich others rather than foolishly stuff yourself. Enrich others for the sake of enriching.

When you enrich others at your own expense, by denying yourself, you function at the level of the Universal energy; you function as part of the principle of Vasudaiva kuṭumbakaṁ meaning ‘The whole world is my family’ as said by Kṛṣṇa; you operate out of compassion.

There is no compulsion or no moral injunction to give. There is no expectation that you will go to heaven if you give and to hell if you don't. That's why, time and again, I tell people, 'Do not donate anything to the mission in the belief that I will help you pass through the gates of heaven.

First of all, there is no heaven, and second, I am not its gatekeeper! Many times even your enriching others has a selfish motive. You think, 'If I enrich, I may get this, this, and this back!' Do not enrich with purpose. Let enriching be a purposeless happening. Now, I am giving the right and complete reason for enriching. Because everyone is part of you, enriching every being is nothing but enriching some part of you. Only then are you practicing the tattva of enriching Vasudaiva kuṭumbakaṁ, the whole world as your family.

Constantly enriching the source and keeping it alive for the next generation is yajña. Do not touch anything which you can't replace, like sources which can be exhausted but not replenished. Do not use nonrenewable energy sources. Use only renewable energy sources. That is part of enriching yajña.

1. Which two techniques can liberate oneself from attachment to work?

2. Why do you get attached to the work ?

4. What is sacrifice?

❖ Should enriching be done for a purpose?

❖ What is the right and complete reason for enriching?

❖ Why Kṛṣṇa says that enriching should be practiced?

❖ What is stolen?

❖ What is enriching ?

❖ Why do we need sangha ?

DRAW A LIFE ENRICHING TREE

Materials needed:

❖ Paper Pencil

❖ Color pencil or crayons or Sketch pen

PROCEDURE:

Encourage the children to draw the enriching of a tree from a seed. Seed - Plant - Tree - Fruit - Sharing the fruit+ After they have finished their art drawing, let the child do a presentation with their picture. Make them more clear about the enriching lifestyle in their life.

DRAW A LIFE ENRICHING TREE

INFERENCE :

Let children make an enriching seed in their heart. Let them have enriching ideas in life. Build a nice enriching world in their life. Teachers can ask children: What enriching world do you want to build? Step by step let children know what is really enriching in our life.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

INFERENCE:

Make 2 teams (Ganehsa team and Hanuman team)

Each team talks within their group on the topic: Why everything received without enriching is stolen!

Each team makes a summary about their discussion and gives a presentation to all. Teacher gives feedback

INFERENCE: Kṛṣṇa is very clear. Listen! If you are not enriching, but only taking and enjoying, you are a thief.

Asteya (non-stealing), one of the important vows of Sannyāsa, can be maintained only by enriching.

Only when you continuously enrich others will non-stealing be maintained. Enriching is where life happens to you. Enriching means infusing all the three tattvas of integrity, authenticity, responsibility into satya, truth. Life happens to us with others.

BOOK III, VOLUME IV