Incarnation Happens Out Of Love And Compassion🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

4.9

When Krishna declares that he is the Ultimate, he reminds us of our potential and inspires us to enter the same consciousness, to experience the same bliss.

When Krishna declares that he is the Ultimate, he reminds us of our potential and inspires us to enter the same consciousness, to experience the same bliss.

Krishna is taking care of each devotee's needs.

Results of actions are instantaneous. However, prayers are granted after they are adjusted for appropriateness by divine wisdom.

Kṛṣṇa says, ‘If you understand the truth of the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities, once you leave the body you will not take birth and death like ordinary humans do. If you understand My transcendental nature, you will also achieve the same transcendental nature.’ ‘If you understand that I don’t take the body, you will not take the body either. If you understand I am liberated, you will realize that you are also liberated.’

When Kṛṣṇa says, ‘I am the Ultimate,’ He expresses the space of possibility. He reminds us of our potentiality. He enriches us to define ourselves with authenticity as He defines Himself. He inspires us to enter the same consciousness, to experience the same bliss.

Understand, when Enlightened Masters say ‘I’, they don’t have any meaning behind that ‘I’. Only divinity speaks. For you, the word ‘God’ is just a word with no solid meaning. But when you say ‘I,’ you attribute a solid meaning, a solid identity to it, which is supported by solid experience. You know it. You feel it. If somebody asks, ‘Are you mad?’ you shout at them and prove it! But when you say ‘God’, your understanding is not supported by any experience. With enlightened people, when they say ‘God’, it is based on solid experience and when they say ‘I,’ it has no Meaning.

Here, when Kṛṣṇa says, ‘I,’ there is just the Divine that is speaking. There is nobody inside. It is pure emptiness. Just the Divine, the pure Existence speaks through Him.

Let us see the secret of the birth and death of Kṛṣṇa, how we all go through the birth and death Cycle.

The Kaṭhopaniṣad says you will pass through a tunnel and see ‘Anguṣṭha mātra puruṣa antarātma—meaning the thumb sized light, which is your soul when it leaves the body.

Please listen, nobody else decides your birth. It is simply you who chooses. It is clearly the conscious decision of your soul.

This life is your decision, please be very clear about it. Including poverty, everything is your decision. Don't think poverty has been forced upon you. Even that is your decision. When we take birth, we take birth based on our fear and greed. On one side, greed pushes us.

‘Let me become the son of a king, let me become the son of a rich man.’ On the other side, our own fears say, ‘No no, I can’t take on so much responsibility.’ Along with money comes the responsibility of protecting it.

KARMIC BONDS?

Here Kṛṣṇa gives a technique to cut these kārmic bonds, to be complete and realize the reality. Actions that are complete and free from fear and anger do not create bonds, vītā-rāga bhaya krodhā. They lead us towards elevated consciousness. Fear and anger that arise out of greed pattern are two of the most provocative emotions, the root patterns that create incomplete action, and lead to bondage.

Kṛṣṇa offers a way to be in His space of completion. He says, 'Be drowned in Me, man-mayā mām upāśritaḥ; you will have no anger, no fear. All actions will thus be without bondage. In this manner, you can be purified and realize Me, pūtā mad- bhavām āgatāḥ (4.10).' He gives the assurance that having followed this path, many people in the past have achieved Realization. Kṛṣṇa explains here why non-attachment is so difficult. It is in our nature to look for success in whatever we do. It is impossible to embark on an activity expecting it to fail. There is nothing wrong in looking for success at the end of an activity. What creates problems is the illogical attachment to that expectation of success. What Kṛṣṇa says here shows that our mindset, human nature, has not changed in over five thousand years. Even then they were looking for material success. They were looking for instant results. When they prayed to God they were praying to fulfill their expectations of material success.

He says you normally pray to God not as an expression of gratitude, but to seek unfulfilled material desires and all that you think will bring you happiness. All your actions, Kṛṣṇa says, are based on material success, and He says such activities bear instant results in this world, kṣipraṁ hi mānuṣe loke.

However, the result of your actions is instant. The karmaphala is immediate. When you think good thoughts, do good deeds, you feel good, you are in heaven. When you think evil, you act evil, you feel evil and you are in hell. That is all there is to karma. This is the cosmic cause-effect principle. You are what your intent is; you become what your intent is. Karma acts instantly, here and now.

❖ What kind of actions create bondage?

❖ What is the Karmic Cause and Effect principle?

CYCLE OF LIFE AND DEATH

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE

Draw your life-cycle from birth to death and rebirth. Depict the picture of you as a baby transforming into an adult then changing into an old person then becoming a dead body and then again taking rebirth as a baby. Put arrows between each stage of life to show life's natural progression. Now break the cycle of birth and death by striking off the arrow between death and rebirth; instead make a new arrow pointing towards a new choice of "Liberation". Uses your imagination to depict your Liberation You may show yourself transforming into air waves, thumb sized oval light, Krishna, a heart etc.

INFERENCE

PROCEDURE:

Encourage and guide the children to enact an extempore street play for an audience showing the natural progression of life of a central character (boy/girl) from birth to old age and all problems associated with each stage of life i.e. depression, pear pressure, failures in various spheres of life, illness, death etc . And the coming of a Guru/spiritual master into his/her life leading to enlightenment, blissful life and ultimate liberation from the cycle of birth and death. Encourage Kids to use simple props like scarfs, moustaches, wigs, spectacles, bandages etc. to enhance the performance and the depiction of characters of the play.

INFERENCE:

The happening of an enlightened master is the greatest breakthrough and turning point in the life of the central character of the play.

Procedure: Discuss why non-attachment to the results of our actions is so difficult. Why do we look for success in whatever we do?

Conclusion: Incarnation happens out of love and compassion. When Krishna declares that he is the Ultimate, he is reminding us of our potential and inspires us to attain his state.

BOOK IV, VOLUME IV