How To Approach God In The Right Way ?🔗

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THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

Unless we drink the milk, we will never get the benefit of the milk. Unless we imbibe Kṛṣṇa, we cannot get the benefit of the Gītā.

Kṛṣṇa has created keys for all kinds of human beings. Kṛṣṇa fulfills every need of every human being.

There are millions of people out there, but only a few hundred are present today to listen to the Gītā. And out of these few hundred, only a few will listen authentically.

With all these elements, the energy cycle is complete.

We are above the energies that constitute us. When we realize our Self, we realize that we are Divine and nothing less.

Ability to speak into the listening of yourself is Completion.

Ability to speak into the listening of yourself is ability to complete.

That is the ability to complete.

This chapter is about how human beings approach the Divine, why they approach the Divine, and at what level they approach the Divine.

We approach the Divine in the way we want It. According to our maturity, we approach the Divine. At what level do we approach the Divine? What do we receive in return? How do we grow in maturity?

Kṛṣṇa gives the answers to these questions in this chapter. Here He says, 'Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and out of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.'

The Master is always ready to share and enrich with his experiences. That is his mission in life. The infinite compassion that fills an enlightened being is forever bursting to be let out to share, to teach, to guide, and to enrich.

He is available continuously to the whole humanity, enriching with Enlightenment. That is why Kṛṣṇa says that He is now ready to explain.

You will see miraculous transformations happening in your body and mind. Listening is God! Just by listening, you experience God! The question is whether or not Arjuna is ready to listen. Even if Arjuna was ready to listen and he became enlightened, are we ready to listen today, now?

The truth is that we have forgotten where we came from. Nothing in the way we are brought up and 'educated' tells us that we come from Bliss and we can regain that bliss. If we realize how easy it is to be blissful and return to our original state, no one can control us. That is what liberation means. But society, religion, and political and family structures operates on the principle of control.

The moment we realize who we are and we are liberated, these institutions cannot make us do what they want us to do. From childhood we are conditioned to avoid looking too deeply into ourselves because if we do, we may find the truth and be liberated. Most of society doesn't know these deeper truths. This is how society puts generation after generation of people in deep illusion.

The path to Self-realization is the path of aloneness. It is not a lonely path; it is an ‘alone’ path. When we are alone, we are not lonely. We are all-in-one; that is what being alone means. From being fragmented, we become whole. From being islands, we become the Universe.

This is the knowledge that Kṛṣṇa offers humanity. Out of His deep compassion He says, ‘Please listen to Me and realize your Self and be liberated.’ One in a million may heed His words and start on this path.

He then says that only one in a million who starts on this path will eventually find his own Self, and thus find Me. In these verses Kṛṣṇa explains who He is. Kṛṣṇa explicitly separates Himself from His manifested energies in these verses.

What we perceive as manifested energies — the five natural elements that are earth, water, fire, air and ether, and the three inner elements of mind, intelligence and ego — are His energies no doubt, yet they are not Him.

Puruṣa and prakṛti are considered the operative principles of the Universe in the Hindu philosophical systems of Sāṅkhya and Vedānta. Puruṣa and prakṛti are unmanifest energy sources, puruṣa being inactive and prakṛti capable of being active. Everything else arises from these two elements when they operate together. Prakṛti gives rise to the Cosmic and individual intelligence and the five natural elements. The Taittreya Upaniṣad explains that the Cosmic energy gave rise to etheric energy or the energy of space, ākāṣa, which pervades the Universe. Prakṛti gives rise to the Cosmic and individual intelligence and the five natural elements. The Taittreya Upaniṣad explains that the Cosmic energy gave rise to etheric energy or the energy of space, ākāṣa, which pervades the Universe.

This is the largest and subtlest quantum of energy that pervades the Universe. From etheric energy the energy of air arises. It is this energy of air, or vāyu, that sustains us in our body-mind system as the carrier of pranic or life energy. From the energy of air arises the energy of fire, agni. Many salutations in the Ṛg Veda, the first of the Hindu scriptures, are addressed to the fire. Almost all Vedic rituals are performed for the fire god. Āpas, the energy of water, arose from the energy of fire. Pṛthvī, the energy of earth arose from the energy of water.

The Taittreya Upaniṣad goes on to say that it is from the earth energy that plants, herbs, food were created, from which came humans. Within the human is the intelligence that is a hologram of the Cosmic intelligence. The energy cycle is now complete.

The Cosmic intelligence is reflected in the human as the mind. The mind in turn uses the senses to access the external world. Each of the senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are related to the natural elements. Ether is linked to sound or the ears; air is linked to touch and the skin; fire is linked to color and form, and hence to sight and the eyes; water is linked to taste and the tongue; earth is linked to smell or the nose.

The mind receives information through the senses of perception, and executes decisions through the senses of action. When the senses are denied access to the external world, which is their sustenance, the mind shuts down. Thoughts cease! Ego is a creation of the mind. It is an illusion because it is not permanent; it is not the truth.

Then, inner intelligence awakens to the Cosmic intelligence. Here, Kṛṣṇa refers to ego as ahaṁkāra. It is our identity that we project outwards, which is always in excess of what we think of as ourselves.

When we realize our Self, we realize that we are Divine and nothing less. Anything we think about ourselves which is lower than this, is low self-esteem, is self-doubt. What Kṛṣṇa says is true for all of us. We are above the energies that constitute us.

8 ELEMENTS

MATERIALS NEEDED:

PROCEDURE

Draw the eight elements as an energy cycle: start by drawing a circle on the page. Draw the 8 elements around this circle: earth, water, fire, air, ether (space), mind, intelligence, and ego

INFERENCE

Prakṛti gives rise to the Cosmic and individual intelligence and the five natural elements.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

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INFERENCE:

Puruṣa and prakṛti are unmanifest energy sources. Everything else arises from these two elements when they operate together. Hinduism has the science of transmitting energy.

VAAKYARTHA SADHAS

Hold Vaakyartha sadhas with the children on “one in a billion reaches me”. How it is special to be part of learning from Kṛṣṇa

When we realize our Self, we realize that we are Divine and nothing less. Kṛṣṇa’s mission was to enlighten Arjuna, and through Arjuna, the rest of humanity

BOOK VII, VOLUME II