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INTRODUCTION

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Kṛṣṇa gives a very deep understanding here. He says, ‘I do not create activities or make people do or connect with the fruits of the actions. All this is done by the material nature of humans.’

Kṛṣṇa is talking about the creation of the Universe itself here, not just about individuals. Understand, nothing in this Universe can be created or destroyed. Everything that exists has always existed in some form or the other. It will continue to exist in some form or the other.

Science also says the same thing that matter and energy are interconvertible and energy can never be destroyed. The beauty of the Vedas is that they say what science is now understanding

The End or The Beginning?

People ask me, 'Who created this Univers?

The Universe itself is the creator, the created and the creation. If the creator and the creation were different, it means that the Creator is more intelligent than the creation. But the creation and the Creator are one and the same; they are both divine.

The game of life is all about man trying to realize the Divine in him and the Divine trying to express itself through man.

What Kṛṣṇa teaches here is actually a sūtra, a technique. Understand, when you are disturbed or angered by anything, the disturbance cannot disappear suddenly because it is a physiological happening. Your hormones have been released into your system; the body has been poisoned. But when you remain in the space of completion as a witness, even though the anger cannot go away immediately, there is the awareness in you that will dissipate the effect of the anger that remains in the periphery. The center, the core is untouched. You are now aware of these two points, the core and the periphery as two distinct identities co-existing.

This one glimpse will enrich you and become the strong support for you. The next time you see that you are being swayed by incompletions, you will remember this and such awareness will make you conscious and complete. This is what is meant by the term ‘being centered in completion.’ You are no longer a slave to your emotions, or to others.

Nithyananda

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Krishna playing the flute

The light of knowledge dispels the ignorance and we realize the state in which we have always been. We cannot remove the darkness directly. Ignorance also can be removed by just shining the light of knowledge on it! Just like the rising sun removes the darkness of the night, the light of knowledge dispels the darkness of ignorance.