Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 - Lesson 1 of 11

KRISHNA'S TECHNIQUE FOR SUCCESS IN INNER - OUTER WORLDS

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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 ULTIMATE 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

Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam illustration with feathers and scroll

WORKSHOP OF

THE DAY

Portrait of Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam

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

Illustration of an audience listening or participating in a gathering